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Ostium announced on October 1 that it is revamping its trading setup using Gateway, a new system that offers greater speed of execution, a unified margin, and security features in its infrastructure.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This system is introduced about three months after the theft of $23.75 million from its liquidity vault, putting pressure on the Arbitrum platform to demonstrate that it has fixed the flaws that resulted in the breach in July.<\/p>\n

What Ostium says Gateway changes<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In a post on X<\/a> on October 1, Ostium framed Gateway as more than just a patch. The platform says it will keep the institutional connectivity introduced earlier this year and will improve the execution process and margin management.<\/p>\n

In July, Cryptopolitan<\/a> reported that Ostium\u2019s decentralized execution layer facilitated the process of sending on-chain orders to institutional partners off-chain to help with hedging. According to Marco Antonio Ribeiro\u2014the co-founder and CTO of the company\u2014the entire setup has been designed for latencies of under 100 milliseconds.<\/p>\n

The announcement about Gateway came after Ostium shared an update on its OLP recovery plan<\/a> on September 30\u2014which illustrated the connection between repayment of the drained pool and rebuilding of the entire trading stack.<\/p>\n

How the attacker drained the vault<\/strong><\/h3>\n

According to Galaxy Research<\/a>, the hacker managed to gain access to two trusted components of Ostium\u2019s system \u2013 an approved oracle signer key and a registered PriceUpKeep forwarder. With the two, the hacker was able to submit a properly signed price report bearing a later timestamp, have it verified, and repeatedly open and close trades against that false price.<\/p>\n

According to Galaxy, the verifier for Ostium checked if the signatory had the authorization for the transaction but not whether the price was valid. The $23.75 million amount was transferred in eight separate transactions to a single crypto wallet; the biggest transaction was carried out as an atomic series of repeated open-and-close cycles.<\/p>\n

Why the fix is a trust problem, not a code problem<\/strong><\/h3>\n

According to Galaxy, the case of Ostium illustrates a bigger issue: even if the smart contracts function properly, criminals can still target humans, credentials, and infrastructure connected to the smart contracts.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThrottling withdrawals introduces censorship risk directly at the application layer.\u201d\u2014 Galaxy Research<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Instead, Galaxy argued for stronger signer-key management, verifier redundancy and admin timelocks.<\/p>\n

This issue is illustrated by the TRM Labs data<\/a> for the first half of 2026, in which there were 207 hacking incidents and losses amounting to $972 million. Although infrastructure and operational breaches only made up around 15% of the incidents, they were responsible for approximately 76% of the losses.<\/p>\n

A security test for a $3 trillion market<\/strong><\/h3>\n

According to research from CoinMarketCap<\/a>, the total volume of real-world asset (RWA) perpetuals was recorded at $3.16 trillion as of August 31. Among them, August accounted for $799.5 billion of the total volume, with stocks responsible for 62.3% of the volume.<\/p>\n

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RWA Perpetual Market Hits $3.16T as Infrastructure Hacks Drive 76% of Crypto Losses<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As of the first of October, DefiLlama\u2019s RWA perpetuals dashboard<\/a> indicated that open interest was $5.34 billion across 1,037 markets. The dashboard shows a total of RWA perpetuals, excluding centralized-exchange RWA perpetuals by default.<\/p>\n

CoinMarketCap has also discovered that centralized exchanges have begun to acquire a bigger market share in RWA perpetual trading activities. Thus, Ostium now has a clear challenge for Gateway \u2013 to provide traders with the requisite speed and capital efficiency, while at the same time ensuring that the technology behind this platform cannot be breached easily.<\/p>\n

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