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Today we are thrilled to announce that we are launching @trasiaxyz and have received $1.75M seed stage funding from Multicoin. We are grateful for the strategic support that Multicoin provides in the process. Trasia is a non-custodial, Asia-first trading platform that was purpose-built to serve Asian traders with localized mobile trading interface. And we’re just getting started: through our upcoming HIP-3 protocol, we'll bring entirely new Asian markets on-chain. You can already trade ample equity perps on Hyperliquid - most equity perps pairs are more liquid than those on the top centralized exchanges. Yet the vast majority of Asian traders, especially those who live and breathe CEXs, still aren't here. People are looking for a mobile trading experience that has no difference than trading on Binance or OKX, and that’s what we are going to offer: a mobile-app with CEX-like experience. Our team's ample experience building mobile interfaces will empower the delivery. And the timing couldn't be better. The world is buzzing about CXMT, DeepSeek, and Unitree - but there are 100x more high-quality assets in the region: AI tigers, robotics champions, and the companies that will participate in shaping the next decade. We're extremely bullish that some of these companies will be the engine of regional market growth in the years ahead. Our team also have deep roots in many local trading communities in the region - many of whom aren't on any DEX, yet. We will match what these traders want with what we offer on our Asia-first HIP-3 markets. It is about the pairs we choose to list, but it’s also about the traders we aim to serve. The market choice and the target audience both matter, and together the flywheel becomes the moat. The web version is already live and the mobile frontend is coming soon this summer. Trade Asia with Trasia.

Today, I'm thrilled to announce that we've raised an additional $24 million in new capital, including a $20 million Series A co-led by General Catalyst and Jump Crypto, along with Wintermute Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Crucible Capital, and an incredible set of angels. They will be key to actualizing our vision: democratizing access to the highest quality and most liquid global asset markets in the world. We started Ostium with the vision of upending the legacy CFD market, an idea that Marco and I first conceptualized trading on offshore brokers in a hacker house. These platforms happily let users like us take risky positions, but when those same positions moved against them, they’d swiftly exercise discretion over pricing, liquidations, and withdrawals. It took sending countless emails pushing brokers to honor their own terms to realize the system was broken. From day one, our goal has been to fuse two core values into a single product: (1) the transparency and self-custody of crypto, and (2) the fair pricing and deep liquidity of traditional markets. Those two north stars have shaped every architectural decision we’ve made since. Scaling Liquidity To scale that model without compromise, Ostium is expanding its liquidity partnerships. The protocol will now be able to support dramatic increases in liquidity, open interest, and asset coverage, allowing us to expand into the most liquid markets in the world. This growth is supported by a core set of liquidity partners able to hedge flows across a diverse range of traditional assets while integrating directly with crypto rails. Today, Ostium’s main hedging partner services the protocol by managing the bulk of these flows, hedging exposures when they exceed certain thresholds, and ensuring open interest doesn’t skew too heavily in a particular direction. That hedging capacity will be expanded materially with new liquidity integrations. There's also a new, comprehensive dashboard detailing the live and historical hedging positions on the protocol, allowing anyone to track the residual exposure OLP is taking on at any time. Check it out at ostiscan(.)xyz. In the coming months, the Ostium protocol will evolve from a single-quote RFQ system into a competitive quoting environment, wherein makers will compete directly at the protocol level to quote and hedge large orders. Their participation will be gated and their economic alignment with the protocol ensured via an inbuilt native staking mechanism and slashing system. Why We Chose This Architecture Our architectural choices follow directly from this vision. Building a fully onchain execution engine inherently delivers transparency and self-custody. But crypto rails today often make fair pricing and deep liquidity harder, especially for longer-tail traditional assets. The result is that while many traders may think they are trading a multi-trillion dollar market like the gold market, they wind up in fact betting on an illiquid derivative thereof, subject to the often unreliable liquidity dynamics of the crypto markets. As a result, we opted to build a single-quote RFQ model, not an orderbook exchange. Ostium quotes directly from a specialized oracle, enabling the protocol to price assets at the underlying market's price (or very close to it) and offer the closest thing onchain to the execution depth that a trader would get in the real markets. Points Program Updates In line with this expansion, two changes to the points program to double down on our core focus: 1. CFD trader onboarding boost If you’re a traditional CFD trader and want to Break Up With Your Broker to trade onchain, you’ll be eligible to receive a 2x boost on all points earned for the first 30 days from signup with Ostium. If this is you (or any of your friends), please fill out the form on Ostium’s landing page and forward broker affiliation to breakup@ostium.io. (Note: not available in U.S. / for U.S. traders) 2. TradFi boost From now on, we will be increasing points program scores on all traditional assets - stocks, indices, FX, & commodities. This is the first and only trading venue in DeFi today with over 95% of open interest in traditional markets, and we will be doubling down on our core focus. Finally: if you want to work with a brilliant team, we're hiring the very best across a variety of positions. We look for exceptional and spiky people. If this is you, join us. (https://jobs.ashbyhq(.)com/ostium)

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aPriori is excited to announce a $20M fundraise, bringing our total funding to $30M. We’re building the intelligent order flow coordination layer so traders, liquidity providers, and validators win together. Thank you to our investors and community.

We’re excited to welcome @YZiLabs as a strategic investor in our mission to build a dollar that scales global compute. Grateful for the trust as we expand USDAI beyond $60M TVL and into the future of AI intelligence.

Not so good a day to be pre-token. Mainnet soon (tm).

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