Ostium Launches Institutional Hedging Layer

Ostium Labs on Tuesday rolled out what it calls the first "decentralized execution layer," an architectural overhaul that routes net directional flow from the protocol's traders to a network of institutional hedging partners, including Jump, prime brokers, and other firms active in traditional markets.Until now, Ostium's public liquidity pool both settled trades and absorbed all net directional exposure, a structure the team said served early users but capped execution quality and open interest. Under the new model, a separate capital pool programmatically routes net exposures offchain to institutional partners and settles once daily. A buffer layer sits atop the public liquidity pool, which now operates as an intraday lending layer rather than a counterparty."Programmatically hedging onchain flow with traditional market participants required building a new kind of infrastructure, a translation layer between smart contracts and institutional-grade messaging protocols, with sub-100-millisecond latency across every step," CTO Marco Antonio Ribeiro said in a press release viewed by The Defiant. To continue reading this as well as other DeFi and Web3 news, visit us at thedefiant.io