Protocol Research, Macro Bites, Market Musings

Announcing our partnership with Stork Network to bring long-tail Real World Asset feeds onchain.

China's equity and real estate market is in crisis. Evergrande, previously the most valuable real estate company in the world, is facing bankruptcy, and the Hang Seng Index is down over 50% since 2018. We explore parallels between China's downturn and the implosion of the Japanese asset bubble in 1989, and offer a hypothesis for what's next.

While inflation was all everyone could talk about in 2022 and 2023, that narrative has now begun to subside. But should we really be taking inflation's declining threat for granted? In a series of two posts, we break down the main drivers of inflation and provide competing quantitative evidence in favor of and against the claim that inflation will persist. First: arguments against persistent inflation.

This research article investigates the role of Real World Assets (RWAs) in enhancing risk management within multi-asset, pool-based perpetual Automated Market Makers (AMMs). Central to this study is our development of the ‘Imbalance Score’, a novel metric for quantifying counterparty risk.

We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with Chaos Labs! We’ll be working together closely to improve our mechanism design and create a risk modeling and monitoring system for the Ostium Protocol.

We’re thrilled to announce that Ostium Labs has raised $3.5M from General Catalyst and LocalGlobe, with participation from Susquehanna International Group (SIG), DeFi Alliance, Balaji Srinivasan, Shiliang Tang (LedgerPrime), and nearly 20 additional founders, investors, and advisors.