Ostium Labs Secures $20M in Series A Funding Led by General Catalyst and Jump Crypto for Onchain TradFi Perpetuals

Ostium Labs, a pioneering infrastructure protocol, has successfully closed a $20 million Series A funding round. The investment was co-led by prominent venture capital firms General Catalyst and Jump Crypto. The capital injection is designated to advance Ostium's core mission: bridging traditional finance (TradFi) with decentralized blockchain networks. The startup is developing a platform to tokenize and trade real-world asset (RWA) perpetual derivatives onchain. This initiative aims to provide global, 24/7 access to markets typically confined to traditional finance, such as commodities (oil, metals) and forex. The funding underscores growing institutional interest in merging TradFi liquidity with the transparency and efficiency of blockchain technology. Ostium's solution seeks to address the lack of robust, decentralized venues for trading perpetual swaps on real-world assets, a niche currently dominated by centralized finance (CeFi) platforms.