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1) Equitable direct access: the way market access should work

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10:32 PM · Oct 10, 2022Twitter Web App

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2) On your API page, you can now whitelist an IP address to get direct, fast access to FTX's servers, bypassing Cloudflare. This should take API order latency down significantly. ftx.com/settings/api

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@SBF_FTX

Oct 10

3) Traditional examples of this cost millions of dollars and are reserved for privileged firms. Even on crypto exchanges, it's usually reserved just for VIPs. But that's dumb: there's no reason to just make the fastest firms faster. Everyone should have equitable access.

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@SBF_FTX

Oct 10

4) So anyone on FTX can whitelist IP addresses to get direct market access--the same as the 'big boys' will get. We're rolling it out to everyone at the same time: tomorrow, October 11th, at 18:00 UTC.

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Oct 10

5) (Disclaimers: a) not financial advice b) won't be live for a day c) see docs.ftx.com/#fast-access for details d) right now only for REST e) have to be KYC2 for a week so people can't spam accounts f) mostly helps via API, unless you live near AWS Tokyo g) coming to FTX US soon)

docs.ftx.com

FTX API Overview

Welcome to the FTX API documentation. We offer complete REST, Websocket, and FIX APIs to suit your algorithmic trading needs. You can find sample code for each connectivity option at https://github...