Recently, @ OstiumLabs has been re named by the market: it has just received a Series A funding of $20 million, and with the addition of its previous strategic round, the total funding is now close to $27.8 million. It is jointly led by General Catalyst and Jump Crypto, as well as participation from old friends such as Coinbase Ventures, Wintermute, GSR, etc. This indicates that a circle of venture capitalists have genuine recognition of its gameplay Ostium's product logic is actually quite straightforward - bringing perpetual swaps from traditional global markets onto the blockchain, using smart contracts to enable leveraged trading of assets such as gold, crude oil, S&P 500, Nasdaq, and forex directly on the chain. Moreover, the funds are self managed, not handed over to centralized brokers It has two tangible benefits for ordinary users on this path: first, transparency, which eliminates pain points such as price black boxes and account freezes like traditional brokers; Secondly, the entry threshold is low, and with a wallet, one can participate without being restricted by geography Now Ostium is running on Arbitrum, with a cumulative trading volume of billions, and over 95% of open contracts come from traditional asset markets. It is not just a simple bet in the cryptocurrency circle, which means it is not just a "on chain game", but a real move of real-world asset transactions onto the blockchain In other words, @ OstiumLabs is now more like a bridge connecting DeFi perpetual models with the global market, rather than just a small toy for cryptocurrency derivatives. In this way, for ordinary retail investors, it is not only an entry point to access traditional assets on the chain, but also a new alternative to traditional brokers in the past @OstiumLabs @Bantr_fun @0xMantleCN Ostium Bantr