What is Project Ostrum?
Project Ostrum is a marketplace for hard-to-find commercial information, starting with the terms of private crypto deals: what exchanges actually charge for listings, what market makers actually take, and the other numbers that shape a deal but never appear in public. Everyone negotiating one of these deals is at a disadvantage for the same reason: the other side has seen a hundred deals and you have seen three. Ostrum fixes the asymmetry by pooling what practitioners have seen — anonymously, verified, and priced by real demand.What it’s useful for
Negotiating from evidence
Walk into a listing or market-making negotiation knowing what comparable
projects actually paid, not what the other side tells you is standard.
Sanity-checking a quote
Someone quoted you a number. Is it high, low, or normal for a project your
size? Ask the market.
Earning from what you know
The terms you’ve seen are an asset. Contribute them and get paid — upfront,
and again every time someone consumes them.
Watching the market move
Deal terms drift with the cycle. A pooled, continuously refreshed corpus
shows where they are now, not where they were last year.
The idea in one sentence
Information is an asset that today gets consumed without being paid for. Ostrum is a spot market that prices it, pays the people who supply it, and protects them while doing so.How it works
The whole loop — contribute, earn, consume — in ninety seconds.