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Why bother? The FPGAs HFTs connected directly to fiber will trade the sh*t out of you.
by p0w3n3d 3y ago
Why bother? The FPGAs HFTs connected directly to fiber will trade the sh*t out of you.
- rohith2506 3y agoIn traditional finance where machines are colocated, yes. That's not the case for crypto
- posnet 3y agoThe crypto/cloud equivalent is letting market makers connect directly to the exchange front end servers via AWS VPC peer or equivalent rather than going via the public load balancers.
- anonymoushn 3y agoWe have the VPC thing for Gate but it's slower than the public thing.
- shric 3y agoAnd even in non-crypto it's not only about who is the fastest.
- dist-epoch 3y agoThere are exchanges which offer that in crypto too - Deribit has colocation in Equinix LD4.
- chinathrow 3y agoRigged markets as a service!
- loveparade 3y agoNo such thing as colo for most crypto exchanges, at least not officially. But your general point still stands. This is a cute project that's likely useless for anything serious. People go to great lengths to shave a bunch of ms off these feeds.
- anonymoushn 3y agoThere aren't any. The fastest access you can get to Binance is in apne1 (az depends on which products you are trading). There are also a lot of systematic strategies worth automating that aren't really latency sensitive.
- yieldcrv 3y agolots of programmatic strategies are not latency sensitive, most even and the crypto market, despite its volatility, does not move that fast, it just has 24 hour trading, in comparison of 6-8 for equities, in a single day so the 3x greater trading sessions create the eternity