DeFi Exchange Ostium Adds Equity Perpetual Contracts Using Nasdaq Data

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.