You might think DeFi perpetual contracts are only for longing or shorting cryptocurrencies, but #Ostium wants to broaden the perspective to "real assets + leverage + accessible to ordinary people." This time, it's targeting gold, commodities, currencies, indices—traditional markets—also known as Real-World Assets (RWA) + perpetual contract models.

@OstiumLabs is fundamentally supported by two sets of infrastructure: First, it integrates Chainlink Data Streams as its oracle/market data source, ensuring that on-chain contracts receive real-time, low-latency, and reliable price feeds, laying the foundation for high-frequency, multi-asset, multi-strategy trading.

Second, it has designed its trading structure to be non-custodial, self-service, perpetual + synthetic assets + stablecoin settlement. In other words, you don't need to actually hold gold, have a traditional commodities account, or be limited by traditional exchange entry barriers—you can go long or short with USDC on-chain, with entry as low as a few dollars. This is retail-friendly and naturally advantageous in terms of compliance and auditability.

What does this mean? For regular users, it means they have the opportunity to use DeFi tools to access traditional commodities and financial markets—not just crypto trading + leverage, but "on-chain futures/perpetuals + traditional asset derivatives." For institutions, it means they can build more flexible, transparent, low-cost, global commodity/asset exposure on the blockchain.

From a business perspective, @OstiumLabs has just completed a new round of funding—General Catalyst and Jump Crypto co-led the Series A. The capital and resources behind it show that the market is interested in this "on-chain TradFi + perpetuals" ambition.

You can think of @OstiumLabs as a platform that brings perpetual contracts for traditional assets like gold, copper, oil, USD/EUR to the blockchain. In the future, as the infrastructure continues to improve, if it can streamline liquidity, clearing mechanisms, and security, it could actually be more attractive than regular DeFi tokens—because it connects to a much larger traditional asset market.
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