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Margin Trading Exchanges

Leverage and liquidations that fail safe, not silently.

Leverage, liquidation engines, and risk management systems, built by engineers who treat the liquidation path as the most important code in the platform, because it's the code that runs precisely when markets are moving against your users fastest.

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Crypto exchange order book with bids and asks meeting at a glowing matching-engine line
Leverage

Isolated and cross-margin positions, sized and tracked accurately in real time.

Liquidations

A liquidation engine that fires before a position goes underwater, not after.

Risk Controls

Position limits, margin calls, and insurance-fund logic built into the core, not patched on.

Custody

Collateral custody built with the same discipline as the matching engine itself.

What we build

What we build for margin platforms.

Isolated and cross-margin position tracking, with real-time mark-price calculation so margin requirements reflect what a position is actually worth, not a stale snapshot.

Isolated marginCross-marginMark priceReal-time tracking

A liquidation engine that monitors positions continuously and closes them before the account goes underwater, with partial liquidation and insurance-fund logic to absorb the gap when the market moves faster than the engine can react.

Liquidation enginePartial liquidationInsurance fundAuto-deleveraging

Position and leverage limits, tiered margin requirements, and margin-call notifications that reach a user before forced liquidation, not just at the moment it happens.

Position limitsTiered marginMargin callsRisk dashboards

Collateral custody (whether on-chain, off-chain, or hybrid), engineered with the same key-management and audit discipline we bring to any system holding real user funds.

CustodyMulti-sigSettlementKey management
What we build with

Current tools, not last year's.

Matching
RustC++Node.jsRedis
Risk
Real-time pricing feedsPostgresKafkaTime-series DB
Custody
Multi-sigHSMCold storageKey management
Frontend
ReactNext.jsWebSocketsTypeScript
Adjacent work

The nearest thing we've actually shipped.

Real-time dispatch platform
Web & Mobile

Real-time dispatch platform

A real-time system tracking and reacting to 12,000 time-critical events a day, the same continuous-monitoring discipline a liquidation engine depends on, from a non-blockchain engagement.

Node.jsPostgresWebSockets
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How we run it

Scoped fast. Shipped on a real timeline.

012–3 weeksRisk model and threat mappingWe define your leverage tiers, liquidation thresholds, and insurance-fund rules before writing the engine, undermodeling risk here is the most common cause of margin platform failures.
028–14 weeksEngine and matching buildThe margin, liquidation, and matching engines, load-tested against simulated volatile-market conditions, not just calm ones.
032–3 weeksStress testingSimulated flash-crash and thin-liquidity scenarios run against the liquidation engine before it touches real collateral.
04OngoingLaunch and monitoringA staged launch with real-time monitoring on liquidation accuracy, insurance-fund balance, and system latency under load.
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Questions

Answered before you ask.

A matching engine reacts to orders users place; a liquidation engine has to act on its own, continuously, against positions that are actively losing value. It has to be faster and more conservative, because a late liquidation can leave the insurance fund covering the gap.

That's what the insurance fund and auto-deleveraging logic are for. We design both in from the start rather than treating an underwater position as an edge case to handle later.

Yes. Typically as part of the same engagement, collateral custody, whether on-chain multi-sig, off-chain with an HSM, or a hybrid model, gets the same security review as the trading logic.

That's a risk decision we'll help you model, not a default we apply. It depends on your asset volatility, insurance-fund size, and regulatory posture in the markets you're launching in.

Generally yes, leveraged trading draws more regulatory attention in most jurisdictions than spot trading does. We build the risk and compliance infrastructure regulators expect to see, but the specific licensing requirements for your markets need review with counsel.

What you're not risking

Every way out of this build is already written down.

You own it, from day one

Code, prompts, models and pipelines: all work-product IP assigns to you by contract from day one, not on final payment.

No vendor lock-in

Nothing is locked to us or to a proprietary platform you can't leave. You get the repository, the documentation, and full access.

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Bring us the risk model. We'll tell you what's realistic.

We'll pressure-test your leverage and liquidation assumptions before we build the engine that has to survive them.

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