HFT aside, this also has interesting applications in distributed databases. Spanner, for instance, has consistency guarantees directly related to how synchroniz

HFT aside, this also has interesting applications in distributed databases. Spanner, for instance, has consistency guarantees directly related to how synchronized the clocks are (keyword: TrueTime). It seems plausible that Huygens could make a significant improvement on performance of this kind of distributed database. This looks like a very impressive result. NTP has been doing its thing well for years but a factor of 100 improvement on time accuracy would be amazing,