[Funding alert] UK Startup Ostium Labs Secures $3.5M Seed Round Funding

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This funding will facilitate the launch of our flagship protocol, the first decentralized, non-custodial perpetuals exchange for Real World Assets. Our launch comes at a critical time in financial markets. Unprecedented growth in the monetary base, supply chain bottlenecks, and rapid geopolitical change since 2020 drove inflation to 40-year highs.

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Unsurprisingly, investors are increasingly diversifying into alternative asset classes. This is true both on- and off-chain. In traditional markets, consumer trading of institutionally-dominated commodities is through the roof, with 90% YoY volume growth in micro contracts for metals and crude oil last year. Niche alternatives like investable fine wines and fractional Private Equity are seeing traction as well.

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Kaledora Kiernan-Linn, co-founder of Ostium said, “Perpetuals have grown exponentially in the last eighteen months. Yet the market lacks a dedicated platform for traders who want direct on-chain exposure to a broader range of asset classes. We're building Ostium to fill this gap, and drive the next wave of mainstream adoption by accelerating the transition of RWAs from narrative to reality.".

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About Ostium

Our founders met at Harvard in a freshman economics class before both working briefly at Bridgewater Associates. We first bonded over our shared experience competing in high-stakes environments, Marco as an International Physics and Math Olympiad medalist, and Kaledora in a previous career as a professional ballerina with the Royal Danish Ballet.

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We’re building to bridge this gap, through the first decentralized perpetuals DEX purpose-engineered for Real World Assets, starting with commodities and FX.

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