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DeFi Exchange Ostium Adds Equity Perpetual Contracts Using Nasdaq Data
Ostium announced Tuesday that it became the first onchain trading venue to offer equity perpetuals on individual U.S. stocks using Nasdaq data. The platform, built on Arbitrum, already offered equity perpetuals before the announcement and now uses official Nasdaq data feeds.
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U.S. stocks using Nasdaq data. U.S. equities with blockchain features including transparency, instant settlement, and self-custody. U.S. markets has historically been fragmented and limited by geography.
Ostium is built on Arbitrum, an Ethereum layer-2 blockchain.
The platform lets traders take leveraged positions on real-world assets directly from a crypto wallet. It specializes in perpetual futures tied to stocks, equity indexes, currencies, and commodities. The exchange has processed more than $50 billion in cumulative volume from over 26,000 traders since its 2024 launch. 6 million, according to DefiLlama data.
Equity perpetuals accounted for nearly 20 percent of the real-world-asset perpetuals market activity of over $75 billion last week, according to Stork Labs. Ostium already offered equity perpetuals before Tuesday's announcement; the Nasdaq partnership adds official institutional-grade data.
Nasdaq struck a separate deal in March with Kraken's parent company Payward to develop infrastructure connecting tokenized equity markets with decentralized networks. Ostium's partnership is the second such arrangement in two months.
