CLOB = Central limit order books. Market makers want them, because they can apply for classical market making strategies by just copy-pasting the existing code. These strategies rely on the fact that 1) canceling orders is free 2) they can spam cancels and new orders in mass. This comes down the market making profitability as described here However, a truly decentralised blockchain is oxymoron with the idea of 1) centralised 2) free transactions. The primary issue with high-frequency trading is that actors with privileged access (those with shorter cables) have winner-takes-all markets. I do not see how spamming the chain with order cancels can be a long term solution, even if it is a short term solution and already happening on Hyperliquid and now being advocated on Solana. The original value promise of blockchains and Bitcoin was that we have a spam-resistant distributed ledger where all transactions can be ordered fairly. Instead, for market making we should focus on decentralised solution that leverage the power of blokchains. If cancelling orders is the underlying problem, then each order should be a smart contract that can cancel itself when the conditions for cancelling occur. If they depend on an external price, then the whole chain should have only one price feed with this price, and this way we can avoid clobbering the chain with useless cancel order transactions. Also we should also rethink if classical market making algoriths are needed, how far AMM can go and intead we just hand over the master keys for the blockchain for likes of Jump and Jane Street.
seems like CLOBs are the new narrative of CT.
@MaxResnick1 I am shooting from the hip here regarding whether this kind of path is feasible for the order-cancelling problem. Please let me know if I am missing something.
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