Protocol Research, Macro Bites, Market Musings

Ostium’s public testnet trading competition launches today! The competition runs from 12pm UTC Tuesday 5/28 through 8pm UTC Friday 6/7, with over $10k in prizes. 🎉

This week, we bring on Stefan Rust, CEO of Truflation, as a guest author for our Macro Research Bites series. We dive into industrial metals like lithium, copper, cobalt, nickel and palladium – many of which will soon be tradable as perpetuals on Ostium – and explore their significance to the growing Electric Vehicles sector.

The wait is over. Our testnet Beta opens up to our first batch of users Monday 3/18!

Announcing our partnership with Stork Network to bring long-tail Real World Asset feeds onchain.

China's equity and real estate market is in crisis. Evergrande, previously the most valuable real estate company in the world, is facing bankruptcy, and the Hang Seng Index is down over 50% since 2018. We explore parallels between China's downturn and the implosion of the Japanese asset bubble in 1989, and offer a hypothesis for what's next.

While inflation was all everyone could talk about in 2022 and 2023, that narrative has now begun to subside. But should we really be taking inflation's declining threat for granted? In a series of two posts, we break down the main drivers of inflation and provide competing quantitative evidence in favor of and against the claim that inflation will persist. First: arguments against persistent inflation.