Ostium Labs launched a real-time decentralized execution layer designed to provide institutional-quality execution for traditional on-chain market exposure, with Jump serving as one of its hedging partners alongside prime brokers and other large institutions.
The upgrade changes the way Ostium manages risk, moving away from a model in which the public liquidity pool absorbs all net directional exposure.
The protocol said it has processed more than $50 billion in cumulative trading volume, generated nearly $35 million in protocol revenue, served more than 26,000 traders and settled nearly one million transactions.
Ostium is positioning the new system as a transparent, self-protective alternative to the CFD market, which is estimated to be around $10 trillion per month.
Under the new architecture, a separate capital pool programmatically hedges off-chain net exposure through institutional partners, while settling a buffer layer above the public liquidity pool once per day.
The liquidity pool now functions as an intraday lending layer, allowing the protocol to more closely align open interest with liquidity in the underlying markets.
The company said the system uses a translation layer between smart contracts and institutional messaging protocols, with latency of less than 100 milliseconds at each step.
Ostium CTO Marco Antonio Ribeiro said the infrastructure was built in four months by 15 of the company’s 20 engineers, describing it as the first time onchain flow was covered programmatically through traditional market participants.
The launch expands Ostium’s commitment to offering portfolio-based exposure to equities, commodities, indices, ETFs and FX without users having to give up custody of their funds.
Ostium’s own site describes these products as synthetic perpetual exposure, meaning traders gain price exposure to assets like the S&P 500 or gold without owning or redeeming the underlying assets.
The upgrade follows Ostium’s $20 million Series A in December, co-led by General Catalyst and Jump Crypto, after the company said it had already reached about $25 billion in cumulative volume and that more than 95% of open interest was tied to traditional markets.
Ostium CEO Kaledora Kiernan Linn described the launch as a broader effort to do for global markets what stablecoins did for the dollar: make an in-demand financial product more accessible, programmable and transparent. The upgrade is now live and trading is possible via the Ostium app.