Exploring HFT with cryptocurrencies
In this section, we will describe the differences between HFT in cryptocurrencies and HFT in traditional assets. There are many other resources on crypto-assets, such as Packt's Complete Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Course (video) written by Ravinder Deol, Rob Percival, and Thomas Wiesner (https://www.packtpub.com/product/data/9781839211096). We will focus on the HFT in crypto by explaining how transactions work and how the exchange works to build low-latency transactions in this area. Cryptocurrencies have been getting into the trading world since Bitcoin became a major value on the crypto market. More and more companies got attracted by the benefit of trading cryptocurrencies. Like any other assets, hedge funds and trading firms started building HFT systems for digital assets.
What is crypto?
Cryptocurrencies are digital assets that are produced with the use of computer networking software. This computer network is not reliant on any...