About Ozmium

What is Ozmium? A free, non-custodial AiFi and DeFi terminal on Base - trade, earn, borrow, and leverage from a wallet only you control.

Ozmium is an AiFi and DeFi terminal on Base mainnet, free and non-custodial. The same capabilities serve a person in the app and an autonomous agent over the agent API, which is what the Ai in AiFi means here. It is an interface rather than a protocol: it reads public onchain state, assembles transactions, and hands them to your wallet to sign.

That distinction is the entire product. There is no Ozmium account, no balance held on your behalf, and no withdrawal to request. Your assets stay in your wallet from the moment you arrive until the moment you leave, and the only thing that ever moves them is a transaction you signed. The collapses that defined the last cycle - Celsius, FTX, BlockFi - were custodial failures: users had sent their assets to a company and were left filing claims against its estate. That failure mode does not exist here, because there is nothing to send.

Which is what self-custody was supposed to mean. Software you can use without trusting whoever operates it, and walk away from without asking permission.

What You Can Do with It

Four things, on four screens, built to compose. An asset held in a wallet does nothing. Supplied to a vault, it earns. Pledged as collateral, it borrows - and that is the step most people skip. Borrowing against a position raises cash without selling it, so you keep the asset and whatever it does next, rather than closing the position to fund something else. The stablecoins that come out can margin a hedge, buy more of what you actually wanted, or sit idle earning yield until you need them. Hold, earn, borrow against, redeploy: the ordinary mechanics of balance-sheet leverage, running without an underwriter, a credit committee, or a counterparty who can call the loan.

Design Principles

One surface, many protocols. Yield, borrowing, perpetuals, and swaps normally live in separate apps with separate mental models. Ozmium puts them behind one portfolio view, so the question "what should I do with this position" has one place to be answered.

Sized against what the market has actually done. Rather than offering you a leverage slider and wishing you luck, the tooling reads the market's recent realized volatility and works backward to a size that survives it. You see the liquidation price before you sign, not after, and you see how far the market would have to move to reach it.

Valuations are confidence-gated. Where a price feed or RPC call fails, the interface retains the last known-good value and marks it as stale rather than substituting zero. Unavailable data is displayed as unavailable.

AI agents are first-class. Every capability in the app is also an HTTP endpoint an autonomous agent can pay for per call. See For AI Agents.

Why This One

Anyone can generate an interface now. What does not fall out of a prompt is the part that has to be correct: an encoding against a live contract, a number that stays honest when the feed behind it fails, a stranded order somebody can actually recover. Those come from operating the thing, and Ozmium's differences are all in that category.

One surface across protocols that do not agree with each other. Morpho, Aave, Gains, Aerodrome, and Uniswap each scale parameters differently, use different decimals, and mean different things by the same word. Reconciling them into one portfolio view and one set of correctly encoded transactions is the work, and it does not generalize from a template.

The same terminal for people and for AI agents. Every capability in the app is an HTTP endpoint an agent pays for per call, priced from a tenth of a cent, with no account, no key, and no SDK. Payment is the credential. Most products bolt an API onto a UI; here they are the same surface, which is what AiFi means when it is not a slogan.

Failure states that tell the truth. A dead price feed holds its last known-good value and marks it stale rather than printing a confident zero. An agent's factual claim is blocked unless a tool call backs it. A market order the venue never filled is surfaced and recoverable rather than silently absorbed. Each of those is a decision made after watching the alternative hurt someone.

Built where the industry does not build. The operation runs from rural America, in service of small independent builders rather than institutional flow, and the aim is to put this infrastructure somewhere physical rather than only onchain. That constrains what gets built: tools people can afford to use, priced for a person putting in a hundred dollars rather than a fund putting in a million.

Built for Its Own Operator

Ozmium is used daily by the person who builds it, and the specialization shows. The reason every technical read and the news that moves it sit on one screen, and the reason lending, staking, swaps, and leverage all resolve in the same place rather than across five tabs, is that this is the tool its author wanted and could not find.

That is worth stating rather than dressing up as market research. Software built for a real user with a real position tends to be honest about the parts that hurt, because the author is the first person the dishonest version would cost.

Custody

"Non-custodial" gets used loosely enough that it is worth spelling out mechanically. So what does it actually mean here?

1. Ozmium operates no contract that holds user funds.
2. Every write action resolves to a standard Base transaction { to, data, value }.
3. Your wallet shows you that transaction, and you approve it or you do not.
4. If Ozmium disappeared tomorrow, every position you hold is still yours and still manageable directly at Morpho, Aave, Gains, Aerodrome, or Uniswap.

FAQ

Where to Go Next

• The whole thesis in one document: Litepaper
• New to all of this: Quickstart
• The Ozmium agent: Ozwald
• Need a wallet or a Base account: Wallets And Base
• Unfamiliar terms: Glossary
• Building an agent: For AI Agents