Section 4: Decentralized Trading Exchanges Using Blockchain

Decentralized trading exchanges are probably one of the best financial applications of blockchain technology. In recent years, commodity and asset trading exchanges around the world have been susceptible to scams and frauds arising from orderbook manipulation and inflated trading volumes. Additionally, reconciliation and settlement is an expensive and time-consuming affair for most exchanges. Decentralized trading exchanges look to solve both of these issues by replicating the orderbook across the network participants in real time and using a blockchain ledger to settle trades between the traders. The distributed nature of the orderbook means that it cannot be tampered with or modified by an individual or a single party. All trades are posted instantly to the ledger and settled. Exchange participants can validate these...