Ostium Labs

Ostium Labs is a company behind Ostium, a decentralized perpetuals exchange for real-world assets, such as commodities and forex, enabling transparent and efficient trading directly on the blockchain. It offers sub-second price feed updates and aims to make commodity and forex trading more accessible and transparent. Ostium, a decentralized exchange founded by two Harvard graduates. Ostium lets users bet on real-world assets like stocks, metals, oil, and some cryptocurrencies. Traders can take on higher risk through perpetual futures. Unlike traditional futures, these derivatives don’t expire on a set date—assuming traders maintain the necessary margin requirements. Ostium, a platform focused on a derivative popular with crypto traders. Ostium is the latest startup to join an increasingly crowded field of decentralized exchanges that let users trade perpetuals, or “perps.”