👋Welcome to Ostium

What is Ostium?

The Ostium Protocol is an open-sourced, decentralised exchange on Ethereum Layer 2 Arbitrum, enabling transparent and non-custodial perpetuals exposure to Real World Assets. More specifically, Ostium is building decentralized trading infrastructure to allow you to trade any asset like a perp – all fully onchain.

Users of the Ostium Protocol can:

• Trade perpetuals on Forex, Commodities, Indices, and blue-chip Crypto assets

• Deposit stablecoins to provide liquidity to the protocol

• Contribute to our community and provide product feedback through our open forums

Protocol, Interface, Labs​

As others have done, we'll begin by clarifying the distinctions between the different areas of "Ostium."

• Ostium Labs: The company developing the Ostium protocol.

• The Ostium Protocol: A suite of smart contracts that together enable synthetic on-chain price exposure to off-chain assets via oracle price feeds, facilitate peer-to-peer market making.

• The Ostium Interface: A web interface that allows for easy interaction with the Ostium protocol. The interface is only one of many ways one may interact with the Ostium protocol.

• Ostium Governance: While Ostium has yet to formally launch governance, community participation is paramount to the protocol's success and efforts are underway to enable a gradual transition towards increasingly community-led governance. This governance will play a critical role in the long-term development and success of the Ostium protocol.

A Guide to Our Documentation

We invite existing and prospective users to read our documentation here to gain an intuitive understanding of the protocol's mission, features, and underlying architecture. This hub will continue to evolve as further technical detail is shared in the coming months, containing a more detailed guide to our mechanism design, the assumptions underlying that design, and our smart contract architecture.