Ostium
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Ostium
@Ostium
The gateway to global markets. Trade stocks, commodities, forex, and crypto onchain from the most liquid markets in the world.

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TradFi trading makes up 77% of our volume. Ostium is purpose-built for RWA perps since day one.





"The trader of tomorrow is someone moving seamlessly between asset classes, trading gold one day, Bitcoin the next, oil the following, NVIDIA after that. They're completely agnostic to the asset. They just want to trade what's moving." @kaledora of @Ostium on the Main Stage at ETHConf.



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3/ But commodities are where the real volume is. This RWA asset class crossed $1B in daily perp volume during Q1. On both @HyperliquidX and @Ostium, commodities accounted for mroe than half of all RWA perp activity. Ostium alone was sitting above $150M in commodity open interest. Meanwhile, gold on Hyperliquid regularly saw ~$200M OI against $100M daily volume as gold prices whipsawed week-to-week. Silver was an outlier, with perp volume frequently 2-3x gold's, often around 40% of precious metals perp activity despite having a significantly smaller onchain spot footprint. Copper and oil were, and to some degree still are, nascent markets. Copper ran ~$8M in daily perp volume with $28M OI, and oil around $1M daily with ~$5M OI. Zooming out, data from @DefiLlama's LlamaAI shows total commodity perp volume hit $80.3B in Q1 2026. And now that Q2 has just wrapped, that figure grew nearly 20% to $95.7B. Those figures go beyond the scope of the report, but give a sense of the broader scale this market is operating at.
















