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Information. During beta, contributing is the only way in: access isn’t for sale yet. Verified contributions earn credits, and credits are what you spend to ask questions. Down the road, credits will also be purchasable on the open market for people with budget but nothing to contribute. See Accessing data.
Each question spends credits based on the work it takes. The LLM figures out the best way to answer, and every dataset it accesses on your behalf spends credits for that query, plus the compute to reason over it. Quick questions cost little, deep ones that pull from several datasets cost more. You earn credits by contributing, and soon you’ll be able to buy them too.
Anything valuable you know first-hand. In the launch markets that means the terms of market-making agreements, exchange listings, and funding rounds you were party to: fees, structures, sizes, timing. More markets are coming. See Where the data comes from.
Tell us. If you hold information for a market Ostrum doesn’t cover yet, or you want to ask questions about one, just ask the LLM in the chat about it. You can submit that feedback right through the chat interface, and it feeds directly into which markets open next.
You share them at intake, but they don’t survive it. Exact values are converted to buckets and ratios at submission and the raw figures are destroyed. Nothing in the dataset can be traced to one deal.
Ostrum pays what it expects is the fair value of your information upfront. Then, as people consume it, a portion of what they pay accrues to your contribution’s NFT on top of that. First to supply a true fact earns the most; corroborators earn a smaller share. See How you earn.
Every accepted contribution mints a non-transferable NFT. It represents the information you contributed and carries a claim to a portion of what people pay to access it. It can’t be sold or transferred: the earnings belong to whoever created the information, permanently.
No. Ostrum doesn’t know who you are in the first place: no names, no emails, just a crypto address. Rewards accrue to your contribution’s NFT and pay out to the address holding it. And consumers only ever see aggregates over multiple contributions with bucketed values, so nothing served can be traced back to anyone. See Privacy by architecture.
No. Ostrum is a spot market for information as an asset class, and the launch markets in crypto deal terms are the first application, not the product. The roadmap runs toward domains where individuals face repeat players: compensation offers, rents actually paid, healthcare billing, insurance settlements. And what the market sells is pooled statistics. No individual agreement, document, or submission is ever reproduced, and exact figures are destroyed at intake. You remain responsible for any confidentiality obligations you’ve personally signed.
Every submission requires proof, and the verification system tests it against public sources, internal data, and signs of fraudulent or manipulated documents. Independent corroboration compounds on top of that over time. See Where the data comes from.
Honest error is expected and handled. Submissions get checked for plausibility and weighed against corroboration, and unverifiable outliers just don’t make it into answers. Fabrication is different: failing verification means excision and zero earnings.
It sits in a temporary cache while the verification system reviews it, then gets purged on verdict. The cache itself has a hard expiry as a backstop. Only the verdict persists.
No. Your conversations stay on your device, in your browser. Ostrum never stores them on its servers, and queries go only to open-source language models running inside trusted execution environments, end-to-end encrypted. No AI lab sees your questions.
Because it depreciates either way. Held privately, it decays toward worthless as the market moves. Contributed, it pays you upfront and keeps paying while it stays relevant. First movers earn the most, so waiting has negative value.
The beta is live at ostrum.ai. If you hold first-hand information relevant to the launch markets, you can join as a founding contributor today. See The beta.