Gain exposure to everything from Oil and Gold to Lean Hogs and exotic Forex—onchain for the first time.
Inflation. Rising interest rates. Volatile geopolitics. The new macro paradigm is ripe for event-based trading.
Start with as little as $10. Ostium’s virtual price exposure frees users from the large contract size constraints of traditional commodities markets.
Existing tokenised asset products like onchain Treasurys are built for long-term holders. Our perpetuals are built for traders.
Traditional markets don’t trade 24/7. Onchain exchanges need built-in protection against erroneous pricing during out of market hours.
Front-running protection and custom commodity indices ensure safe and reliable execution.
Our beta is now open for trading.
Streamline your trading with our sleek and powerful app.
One-click trading, gas abstraction, and wallet-free login seamlessly powered by account abstraction.
Liquidity Providers can deposit to Ostium’s insurance layer, built to minimize counterparty risk through proprietary solutions for out of market hours, futures rollovers, and other unique characteristics of RWA markets.
Pro trader tooling for advanced order types and custom price triggers.
Fully onchain trading engine, without compromising on speed. No off-chain order matching.
We minimize bias risk through automated order triggering powered by Chainlink Automations 2.0 and Gelato.
Tailor your experience with flexible layouts, custom charting, advanced trading analytics and much more.
No CEX style deposits necessary. Connect your wallet and trade!
Get access to commodities, forex, rates and more—many available onchain for the first time.
Our team prioritizes the features you care most about.
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Real World Assets, or RWAs, are a catch-all term used in DeFi to refer to the universe of tradable assets not native to the blockchain – things like commodities, indices, real estate, foreign exchange pairs, and more.
As DeFi matures, blockchains increasingly support both tokenization of and synthetic price exposure to these Real World Assets.
RWAs have unique properties that require a unique onchain solution to support them. Unlike crypto-native assets, for instance, reference markets for most RWAs experience closures during daily market settlement, weekends, and holidays. A secure, purpose-built DEX design ensures both traders and Liquidity Providers are protected against things like erroneous price reports during out-of-market hours, front-running during market reopen, and more.
No. Unlike tokenized or wrapped Real World Assets, whose grounding to the underlying asset's price is ensured through redeemability, Ostium facilitates synthetic, or virtual, price exposure to the asset, mediated through DEX fee structure – without claim on the underlying.
Just as perps on BTC facilitate leveraged price exposure to BTC without perp ownership implying a claim on BTC itself (simply indirect exposure to its price), so do Ostium's RWA perps facilitate leveraged price exposure to RWAs without claim on the underlying RWA itself.
At launch, Ostium will only support native USDC on Arbitrum (not wrapped USDC). This applies both to traders and liquidity providers, meaning both parties will be able to deposit and redeem exclusively in USDC. Future iterations and feature additions will work to support a wider variety of collateral assets.
1. Wallet: if you have a wallet already, connect it to Ostium. If you don't, create a new wallet through our partners' social login infrastructure (prompt after Connect Wallet) or download a wallet extension like Metamask or Phantom.
2. Funds: you'll need native USDC on Arbitrum. You can: A) Bridge from other chains (make sure to select native, not bridged "USDC.e"!), B) send to your wallet address from a Centralized Exchange (CEX), or C) use one of the simple fiat on-ramps through your wallet provider directly into your wallet (e.g. Transak on Metamask, Moonpay on Phantom).
Yes! Our DEX is self-custodial, meaning you always control your own assets. Unlike on Centralized Exchanges, no one but you can touch your funds.