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What is Project Ostrum?

Project Ostrum is built on a simple thesis: information is an asset, and it deserves a spot market. Prediction markets proved that private knowledge can be priced, but only as a derivative. What people know gets filtered through a short list of questions, outcomes, and resolution dates, and comes out the other side as a directional probability on a popular question. Ostrum lets you transact in the underlying information directly. Contribute what you know and that purchases access to what others know, at an exchange rate set by the value and scarcity of the information itself.

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The launch markets

Ostrum’s first markets are in crypto deal-terms intelligence: the market-standard terms of market-making agreements, centralized exchange listings, and funding rounds. Why start there? These domains have some of the most extreme information asymmetry in any modern market. The counterparties in these deals negotiate hundreds of agreements a year against rich internal datasets. The projects across the table negotiate a handful in a lifetime, often under exploding offers designed to prevent comparison shopping. The result is a continuous transfer of value from builders to repeat players. Ostrum’s first markets exist to reverse it.

Negotiate from evidence

Walk into a negotiation knowing what comparable projects actually agreed to, not what the other side tells you is standard.

Sanity-check a quote

Someone quoted you a number. Ask the market whether it’s high, low, or normal for a project like yours.

Earn from what you know

First-hand knowledge is an asset. Contribute it, get paid upfront, and keep earning every time someone consumes it.

Watch the market move

Terms drift with the cycle. A pooled, continuously refreshed dataset shows where they are now, not where they were last year.

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Where this goes next

Deal terms are the beginning, not the product. The same machinery works in any domain where individuals hold scattered first-hand knowledge and face repeat players who hold the full picture. Some obvious candidates:
  • Compensation. Real offers and packages by role, level, and market, contributed by the people who received them.
  • Housing. Rents actually paid, concessions actually won, the terms behind the listing price.
  • Healthcare billing. What procedures actually cost after negotiation, and what insurers actually paid.
  • Insurance claims. Real settlement amounts and timelines, by carrier and claim type.
  • Big-ticket purchases. Actual transaction prices for cars, renovations, and contractor work, against sticker prices designed for the uninformed.
The pattern repeats everywhere: the individual negotiates once, the other side negotiates daily. Pooled, the individuals hold the better dataset. Ostrum is the mechanism that pools it without leaking it.

How it works

The whole loop, contribute, earn, consume, in ninety seconds.