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Board Member & Investor - Tech Executive - prev CEO @ovalmoney , co-founder of Guru Capital

Switzerland
Joined November 2009
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Luca Merolla retweeted
ostium now has the lowest all-in trading costs on most RWAs! in the last month alone: > fees cut up 75% lower on most assets > largest onchain gold order ever ($26.4M one-shot with 1.8bps price impact) > 11 new assets (incl. natgas, intel and tsmc) > #2 in RWA volume in all of crypto > crossed $50 billion in volume > crossed $34 million in total protocol revenue ostium's north star is to be the onchain gateway to global markets. every upgrade brings us one step closer to becoming the most capital efficient, cheapest, and most liquid place to trade traditional assets onchain!
OUR LOWEST FEES EVER. REDUCED UP TO 75%. ON TOP OF 2X POINTS THIS WEEK: TSLA, BTC, NVDA, GOOG, US100.
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Luca Merolla retweeted
Ostium has crossed $30M in total protocol revenue. $1.1M was generated in the last 7 days. This is used for growth and building out the best trading execution experience.
Yet another perps protocol on Arbitrum setting new records Over $30M of lifetime fees generated by @ostium Congrats to their team.
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Luca Merolla retweeted
BRENT OIL LIVE NOW ON OSTIUM.
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18M trade. One shot. 5 bps spread. The most liquid place to trade RWAs on chain.
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Luca Merolla retweeted
fourth day in a row of ostium hitting fresh ATHs: > $2.5B L7D volume > $711m in 24h volume > $250m of that in silver alone > another $250m across copper + gold > crossed 4,000 WAUs > $339m in open interest > 100% uptime during highest vol day for metals ever > single-shot trades >$10m in size with <6bps price impact > ~7% annual and STABLE holding costs for longs trade size. trade on ostium
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Luca Merolla retweeted
With Lighter out, the other platform I have been using recently is @ostium. My experience so far has been solid. Originally I was trading Gold and stocks on regular perp dexs but realized the funding on Ostium was typically lower than the standard 10%. Also doesn't seem crowded in terms of points farming. I've only started used it recently and I'm already around top 200 in weekly trading score. I don't trade solely for points, but it's nice to have in general. Just wish they supported more stocks than the typical ones but they'll probably expand more options down the line. No I'm not going to shill any ref links. Not sure how safe any of these are so consider your own risk.
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Critics scream that the DAT trend is merely "companies buying tokens to hide their own operational mediocrity" Good. Alfred Adler calls it Compensation. If your product is uninspired—if your output is creatively impotent—grafting your decay onto the mathematical perfection of the blockchain is not fraud. It is supreme intelligence. Put down your stones. Don't we all want to hide our own mediocrity?
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Want to unlock Gemini 3 Pro in the CLI? 🚀 Here is the config you need to get it running: 1️⃣ Connect VPN to USA 🇺🇸 2️⃣ Set your Environment Variables: export GOOGLE_GENAI_USE_VERTEXAI=true export GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION="us-central1" export GEMINI_MODEL="gemini-3-pro-preview-11-2025" 3️⃣ Run gemini It’s that simple. ✨ #Gemini3 #GenerativeAI #DevTips #GoogleCloud
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Luca Merolla retweeted
Replying to @LinkedIn
@LinkedIn will offer your data (including your copy writing, original content) to train @Microsoft AI. You are automatically opted in. Follow the guidelines below to turn it off. Done let the big corporates to eat your intellectual property for “the greater good”. Question why this is troubling. It’s no longer “I have nothing to hide why I should be private” It’s about not becoming a product of a corporation.
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24h volumes by asset on @ostium. Our traders are long gold and silver, betting on a BTC rebound and on a Japanese yen rally.
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Luca Merolla retweeted
Ostium now has more Gold open interest than Binance, Bybit, and Hyperliquid - and more than Binance and Bybit combined ($130m vs $98m, $18m, & $32m respectively)
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Our @ostium Gold perp keeps beating records as Gold breaks through ATHs. Today we have done 50+M in gold volume and our traders have 125M+ in OI in gold positions alone. You can trade 25M+ of gold with one click and get filled less than 2 bps away from index price. Nothing else on chain compares.
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"Ron Vara says..." That's my new defense strategy. Let's see how this goes. #RonVara #MemeLife
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Luca Merolla retweeted
Oval in tre numeri: 1 team, 3 sedi e più di 200 felpe in giro per il mondo! 🌍 💚 #team #fintech
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#ganna literally smashed the UCI hour world record. What a performance #cycling
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Today with Oval we are embracing a new one. Too many people that I would need to thank that made this possible but a special note to @claudiobedino @edobene @dettaarese for their terrific…lnkd.in/dPXNqQx lnkd.in/dACh_8G
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Congrats @cjdcosta always at the forefront when it comes to blockchain technology. During my career I rarely came across someone with such a genuine passion for blockchain and who has been in the industry since the inception stages. I learned so much a…lnkd.in/g63HmrZ
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EU residents can now open an account with ETX Capital 🚀🚀💪 #staytunedformore #etxcapital #fintech #financialservices lnkd.in/gACKM38