1) Equitable direct access:
the way market access should work
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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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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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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)
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not really since it relies on internal communication inside AWS's Tokyo server.
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how does this affect existing API Keys WITH whitelisting applied already via the old system?
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