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There aren't any. The fastest access you can get to Binance is in apne1 (az depends on which products you are trading). There are also a lot of systematic strategies worth automating that aren't really latency sensitive.

In traditional finance where machines are colocated, yes. That's not the case for crypto

The crypto/cloud equivalent is letting market makers connect directly to the exchange front end servers via AWS VPC peer or equivalent rather than going via the public load balancers.

We have the VPC thing for Gate but it's slower than the public thing.

And even in non-crypto it's not only about who is the fastest.

There are exchanges which offer that in crypto too - Deribit has colocation in Equinix LD4.

Rigged markets as a service!

No such thing as colo for most crypto exchanges, at least not officially. But your general point still stands. This is a cute project that's likely useless for anything serious. People go to great lengths to shave a bunch of ms off these feeds.

lots of programmatic strategies are not latency sensitive, most even

and the crypto market, despite its volatility, does not move that fast, it just has 24 hour trading, in comparison of 6-8 for equities, in a single day

so the 3x greater trading sessions create the eternity