Ostium

Tokenized stock and real-world-asset perpetuals have moved beyond desktop-only crypto terminals. Traders can now open long or short positions on Nvidia, Tesla, the S&P 500, gold, oil, foreign-exchange pairs, and selected private-company references from a phone. These products provide synthetic price exposure rather than ownership of the underlying share, so they do not carry voting rights, dividends, or normal brokerage protections. Mobile access changes the way these positions are managed. Equity-linked perps trade beyond normal exchange hours, funding can accumulate…

Ostium’s liquidity vault on Arbitrum lost as much as $18 million in USDC after an attacker used authorized oracle infrastructure to manufacture profitable trades and force repeated payouts. The exploit used a registered PriceUpKeep forwarder and future-dated price reports carrying valid authorization. The reports allowed the attacker to repeatedly open and close positions against manipulated prices, creating artificial profit without taking genuine market exposure. A primary exploit transaction shows the Ostium Vault sending approximately 11.86 million USDC through a sequence…

The Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission has warned investors against using several crypto trading platforms that it says are not registered or authorized to offer crypto-asset services in the country. The advisory names dYdX Trading Platform, Aevo, gTrade, Pacifica, Orderly, Deriv and Ostium. The regulator’s concern centers on platforms that allow Philippine-based users to open accounts, connect wallets, deposit funds or trade crypto-assets and derivative instruments electronically without securing local authorization. The warning is part of a wider regulatory push…