About Ostium

Ostium is a self-custodial leveraged trading platform built on blockchain rails. You can trade stocks, currencies, indices, and commodities directly on Arbitrum, an Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain.

Ostium offers assets unique among blockchain platforms, with transparency unmatched by traditional brokers.

• Self-custody: You control your funds at all times.
• Leverage: Trade with up to 200x leverage.
• Assets: Stocks, FX, commodities, and global index perpetuals.
• Transparency: All fees, volumes, and liquidity are public on-chain.

Unlike traditional CFD or FX brokers, Ostium cannot freeze your funds, restrict trading, or manipulate spreads.

Ostium offers trading without the restrictions and opacity of centralized brokers. Read more about how our protocol works here.

Key Advantages

• Instant deposits with no limits.
• No middleman custody: funds remain in your wallet.
• Transparent trading environment: spreads, fees, and volumes are public on-chain.
• Wide market access: trade stocks, FX, indices, and commodities all in one place.
• High leverage: trade with up to 200x across assets.

For traditional traders, this means familiar products with greater freedom and security.

Perpetual contracts (“perps”) are already the dominant product in blockchain. Ostium extends them to traditional assets as well.

• Trade all markets in one place: SPX, gold, oil, TSLA. Ostium lists commodities, stocks, indices, FX, and more.
• Discover new markets: Ostium's proprietary price quoting system, powered by exchange-licensed data, enables new listings quickly.
• Stay fully on-chain: no need to sign up with a centralized broker to access traditional assets.

View how to connect and fund your account. You only need a wallet (or an email address) and a funding method.

• No wallet yet? Ostium's third-party providers generate a secure wallet using MPC (Multi-Party Computation) technology. You can fund it with USDC via:
  • Credit card
  • Bank transfer
  • Centralized exchanges (Binance, Coinbase, Kraken)
  • Another wallet
• Already have a wallet? Just connect MetaMask, Rabby, Coinbase Wallet, or any other EVM-compatible wallet.

Ostium also supports one-click trading (1CT), session keys, and gas sponsorship—so you don’t need to approve every transaction or worry about gas fees.

Yes. Ostium is self-custodial.

• Funds remain yours: Ostium cannot access or freeze wallet funds.
• Trades stay open: Ostium cannot arbitrarily close your positions.
• No account lockouts: unlike centralized exchanges, Ostium cannot close your account.

No. Ostium provides synthetic exposure through perpetual contracts.

• Example: trading S&P perps gives you exposure to S&Ps price, but not the underlying asset.
• TradFi assets too: Ostium’s gold or S&P contracts provide non-expiring leveraged price exposure without delivering the physical asset.

This structure makes it possible to trade the price movements of assets like oil, copper, or equities fully onchain—without tokenization or custody.

Ostium uses USDC (a stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar) on Arbitrum for trading and settlement.

You can fund your account in several ways:

• Purchase USDC with a card or via SEPA in the EU.
• Transfer from centralized exchanges such as Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, and others.
• Receive from other wallets, including those on other chains.

Ostium charges a small opening fee (e.g., 3-5 bps, depending on the asset) when you open a position. Separately, positions are charged a rollover fee.

View the full fee breakdown for more information.