Ostium is a leveraged trading platform for currencies, indices, commodities, and crypto that uses an Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain for settlement and enables full self-custody. Unlike traditional FX platforms, Ostium can't kick you off, restrict your trading activity, or limit withdrawals or deposits — giving you the benefits of blockchain with the variety of "TradFi" (traditional finance).

Welcome! Traditional FX platforms are long overdue for change. As a trader, you're usually at the mercy of centralized brokers. They can slow down the signup process, enforce large minimum deposits, limit withdrawals, close your trades on a whim, and hold on to your assets. Plus, they're a black box: liquidity can dry up or spreads blow out with no warning or explanation.

Ostium is a new trading paradigm: a permissionless platform with instant deposits and withdrawals, complete transparency, and full self-custody, powered by the Ethereum blockchain. Remain in control of your funds and all your trades. An architecture powered by blockchain smart contracts means we can't kick you off, restrict your activity, limit withdrawals, or manipulate your trades. All our information is public at all times, from fees and volumes to user number and liquidity. Access all your favorite assets — from indices and FX to commodities and crypto — from one transparent platform and up to 200:1 leverage.

Remember when you kept tweeting about what Trump would do to the S&P and how he'd devalue the dollar, but never traded on it because you're too ADHD too manage positions across a wallet and a traditional web2 broker? Yes, you. We remember. Stop larping and express your market views on everything from one interface — SPX, CL (Oil), EUR, SOL, you name it — up to 200x levered perps on everything. Want an asset we don't have? We built our own oracle infra (nodes managed by Stork!) so we can actually list it.

An email and a credit card. If you don't have a digital wallet: not to worry. Our third-party infrastructure providers will spin up a non-custodial wallet under the hood, using Multi-Party-Computation (MPC) to split the generated private key securely. You can then fund the blockchain wallet that's generated with digital dollars (USDC, the leading stablecoin) from a credit card, bank account, centralized exchange like Binance or Kraken, or money from any other blockchain or wallet.

If you already have a wallet (Metamask, Rabby, Coinbase Wallet)...you know the game. We have 1CT, session keys, and (soon!) full gas sponsorship enabled so you never have to worry about gas or annoying wallet approvals (all opt-out of course).

Yes! Our Decentralized Exchange is self-custodial, meaning you always control your own assets. Unlike on Centralized Exchanges, no one but you can touch your funds.

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 perps facilitate leveraged price exposure to RWAs without claim on the underlying RWA itself.

Perps are only in their first inning. We believe perps will ultimately be the dominant non-spot primitive for not only crypto, but all assets. We usually say, "given the option, traders pick perps instead of options": the overwhelming dominance of perps vs. options in the crypto market clearly demonstrates what a better and easier-to-understand primitive perps are. Retail only trades options in TradFi because in many places it's the only way to get convexity. If they had perps, we're pretty sure they'd use them instead.

Second, if everything is moving onchain, there are only two ways that'll happen: tokenization and perpification (yes, we coined that second term). Tokenizing things today makes sense for things that cater to long-term holders (like Paxos' PAXG, or Ondo's USDY) or act as a unit of account (like stablecoins). But it doesn't make much sense for anything today's onchain traders mostly want to swing trade, news trade, or day trade.

Introducing perpification: the process of onboarding TradFi assets as synthetic perps, removing the need for asset custody, redemption, or a tokenized equivalent, enabling simple leveraged price exposure through an oracle price feed and a well-designed perps fee structure. For the first time, assets like the S&P, Oil, and Copper are now tradable onchain. We believe in meeting traders where they are, which means offering leveraged perps exposure on everything you might want to trade from a wallet.

Which brings us to our final point: once you go onchain you never go...off-chain. Managing funds across both environments is a mess. You probably already have most of your net worth onchan anyways. If you haven't already, you're probably going to stop bridging money from your onchain wallet to a clunky centralized broker you don't like using anyways just so you can swing trade the S&P. Just do it onchain.