You think DeFi perpetual contracts are just for going long or short on crypto? Ostium wants to broaden the perspective to "real assets + leverage + accessible to everyday people." This time, it's targeting gold, commodities, currencies, indices—essentially the traditional markets, aka Real-World Assets (RWA) + perpetual contract models. @OstiumLabs is backed by two key infrastructures: First, it integrates Chainlink Data Streams as its oracle/market data source, ensuring that on-chain contracts receive real-time, low-latency, and reliable price feeds, laying the foundation for high-frequency, multi-asset, multi-strategy trading. Second, it designs its trading structure as non-custodial, self-service, perpetual + synthetic assets + stablecoin settlement. In other words, you don’t need to actually hold gold, don’t need a traditional commodities account, and aren’t limited by traditional exchange thresholds—you can go long or short on-chain using USDC, with entry barriers as low as a few dollars. It’s retail-friendly and naturally advantageous for compliance and auditability. What does this mean? For everyday users, it means they have the opportunity to use DeFi tools to access traditional commodities and financial markets—not just crypto trading + leverage, but "on-chain futures/perpetuals + traditional asset derivatives." For institutions, it means they can build more flexible, transparent, low-cost, and global commodity/asset exposure on the blockchain. From a business perspective, @OstiumLabs just completed a new round of funding—General Catalyst and Jump Crypto co-led the Series A. The capital and resources behind this prove the market’s interest in this "on-chain TradFi + perpetuals" ambition. You can think of @OstiumLabs as a platform that enables gold, copper, oil, USD/EUR—these traditional assets—to be traded as perpetual contracts on the blockchain. In the future, as the infrastructure continues to improve, if it can streamline liquidity, clearing mechanisms, and security, it might even become more attractive than regular DeFi tokens—because it connects to the much larger traditional asset market. @OstiumLabs @Bantr_fun @0xMantleCN Ostium Bantr