Ostium is building the broker layer for global markets onchain. Most onchain perp DEXs run order books. This works for crypto which has deep liquidity onchain, but falls apart for RWAs where the deepest liquidity live offchain. Books stay thin and traders pay the price in slippage and wicks. On 10/10, PAXG perps on Hyperliquid wicked more than 20% while spot gold barely moved. Traders holding long gold faced liquidation risk on a session where gold itself was flat. The same pattern showed up on Lighter where SKHYNIX wicked 22% while the Korean equity market was closed. Ostium took a different path by pricing trades from the underlying markets directly. Institutional partners like Jump hedge the resulting exposure offchain. The hedges go into the same venues where these assets clear trillions a day. The same $1M NVDA position that costs ~60 bps on Hyperliquid costs around 9 bps on Ostium. The roadmap is a full RFQ network where designated liquidity providers compete on every trade in real time.(Delphi Digital)