Matching Engine for a Top Indonesian Crypto Exchange August 7, 2023 About the Client The client is one of the first and largest crypto exchanges in Indonesia, facilitating the buying and selling of crypto assets. Founded in 2014, the client’s mission is to make crypto markets accessible to everyone. Their platform currently enables 5+ million traders to engage in the trading of various crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, and more. Business Challenge The client was looking to enhance their exchange platform’s throughput by a substantial margin. The roadmap required enhanced scalability and performance to accommodate the desired trading volume expansion. Specifically, the system needed to efficiently process a peak load of 10,000+ orders per second. However, the client’s existing software was incapable of handling such a high load. In their search for a suitable solution, the client came across Devexperts, who offered DXmatch as a pre-existing technology designed to address the aforementioned challenge. Solution DXmatch is an advanced software solution with a comprehensive array of features such as a matching engine, reliable market data delivery, storage capabilities, risk controls, and WebSocket and REST APIs. Notably, DXmatch demonstrates a prominent emphasis on low latency and high throughput. Thanks to its system design, DXmatch scales horizontally, linearly adding more computational power with each new matching segment added to the array. Scaling DXmatch with multi-matching engine segments To help the client, the Devexperts team: Deployed the DXmatch software within the client’s infrastructure. Provided training on effective system operation to the client’s personnel. Offered necessary consulting during the integration process. It is noteworthy to mention that the DXmatch software required no customization. It immediately fulfilled its intended purpose and seamlessly integrated with the client’s ecosystem. Our client + DXmatch integration “It’s fantastic to see how the client is using the vanilla product, without any customization, along with the documentation on how to operate the system, to achieve their goal of ultra low latency and high burstable throughput on GCP. It brings me great joy to witness how seamlessly our DXmatch ‘just works’ for users on the other side of the world, without needing our control, maintenance, and support”. — Sergey Samushin, Head of Delivery Unit He also added that: “On the first trading day the system has already processed over 10M orders, and 1.1M orders are working in order books!” Results Working closely with the client, the Devexperts team managed to deliver a scalable and flexible solution within a few months. All project goals, including desired performance, reliability, and security characteristics, were met successfully. The move solidified the client’s position as a leading crypto exchange in the Asian region and provided a strong technological foundation from which to continue the expansion of its customer base. “Our client possesses a genuine passion for this asset class, and they have an indescribable zeal to help spread it across the region in a professional, trusted, and regulated manner. They’ve been around since the very early days of crypto, and they also witnessed the evolution of exchange tech. So we’re happy they recognized the maturity of our systems. And now, we’re eager to help them grow”. — Michael Babushkin, CEO of Devexperts “This upgrade solidifies our promise to continue to invest in the very best technologies to provide our traders with a truly first class service. We aim to spread crypto literacy across the nation, and to be the venue of choice in the Asia-Pacific region. We’re happy to have Devexperts joining us on this journey”. — Co-founder and CEO, the client
Devexperts is Heading to iFX EXPO Asia 2023 May 23, 2023 Meet us at iFX EXPO Asia at booth #115 on June 20-22! Our representatives will be there to showcase our products and services. Visit booth #115 to discuss your business challenges and see how our software can help you tackle them. If you’d like to book a meeting in advance, please fill out this form. Our team will be represented by: Vitaly Kudinov, SVP of Sales and Business Development Jon Light, Director, Head of OTC Platform Charmaine Athaide, VP of Business Development. If you’re interested in seeing our product demos, the team will be ready to show: DXtrade, a suite of trading platforms for brokers offering FX, CFDs, crypto, and exchange-traded instruments Devexa, an AI-driven customer care and sales assistant for brokers and their clients DXcharts, a turnkey HTML5 financial charting library ready to be delivered in just one day. iFX Expo is a major B2B conference that brings together top executives from major companies operating in the financial industry. The event provides an ideal platform for networking, business development, and thought-provoking content. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with stakeholders from various industry segments, including technology providers, retail and institutional brokers, banks, payment providers, affiliates, IBs, and regulatory experts. It’ll be a perfect environment for in-person meetings and fostering relationships with industry leaders. Our team will also attend one of the biggest fintech EXPOs in Latin America – iFX EXPO LATAM 2024.
Creating an NFT Ecosystem for Live Performance Industry March 2, 2023 About the Client The client is a US-based technology startup founded by serial entrepreneurs with multiple successful exits in the tech, financial, and entertainment domains. Intentions The company’s mission is to create an NFT ecosystem that will empower performers to remain in control of and monetize their art, by connecting them directly with their respective fan bases. Seeking to harness blockchain technology and the innovation of non-fungible digital assets, the client commissioned a platform for the creation and trading of performance art that keeps giving back to the artists who create it. A number of contributing factors led the client to embark on the project. These include the following: The exponential growth of the NFT space, from its inception as the ERC-721 token standard in 2017, to the multi-billion-dollar asset class it is today. The saturation of said market by similar NFT platforms that have failed to develop beyond the original innovation of transforming digital files into unique, digitally scarce, objects. The inevitable dilution of NFT markets as a result of how easy it has become to create and flood the market with them. The lack of an accessible and authoritative venue for well-known artists, performers, and celebrities to be able to create digital collectibles out of the unique moments of their performances and sell them directly to their fans. Project Scope Utilizing the client’s offline studios, creators book stage time to record performances that are simultaneously live-streamed on the website, and also minted, in real-time, as NFTs that are available for immediate purchasing/reselling to users. This requires a system that allows artists to live stream their performances and split those performances into discrete chunks that the artist can then determine the final length of, before turning them into non-fungible tokens and digital collectibles. The system must also have in-built trading functionality both for auctions (creators to fans), and trading (secondary markets). This allows buyers and sellers of NFTs on the platform to transact between themselves, and for NFTs to be liquid once purchased from creators (i.e., to be immediately resalable). NFTs should be transferable to the Ethereum blockchain when required by the end user, for example for use as collateral in other smart contracts such as compatible loan protocols, DeFi, and so on. Furthermore, the system should be able to distribute fees from each transaction to the artist credited with creating the NFT in question. In other words, the artist receives a type of royalty in perpetuity as their work continues to change hands on the open market. Users of the system should be able to register and authenticate themselves via email, phone, social login, oAuth, or a digital wallet, which also allows them to withdraw funds from the digital marketplace. The development of the platform ought to prioritize mobile first as it is anticipated that most users will want to engage with it via mobile devices rather than personal computers, and should quickly scale up to serve thousands of users going forward. The initial target market of the project is performers rather than home creators. This exclusivity is also one of its unique selling points as, at launch, the focus is on providing NFT services for performances that are due to take place at properly equipped facilities. Business Challenge One of the most notable challenges is the current limited throughput and high fees resulting from public blockchains not being able to meaningfully scale. This leads to a dilemma for developers in the space as there is a definite limit to what can be put on-chain. However, to perform everything off-chain, or on a private blockchain, is to negate the very reason (and some would say the value) of provably scarce digital assets such as NFTs. These are issues that members of the crypto community are particularly sensitive to, as such, developers attempting to innovate in this field have to carefully negotiate the pros and cons of every design decision they make. The need for fast transactions and zero gas fees were the most nagging issues when working with public Ethereum, especially back in the proof-of-work days. They both had a severe impact on the complexity of the system. Michael, Solution Architect The mobile first approach is also not without its issues as both Apple and Google treat NFTs as assets that are subject to a commission fee up to 30% for every sale. This is not economically feasible given the platform’s focus on remunerating artists rather than middlemen. The client was looking for a team that is at the bleeding edge of crypto development. Devexperts was chosen because of its proven track record of delivering unparalleled solutions in various domains. Solution Blockchain systems inevitably sacrifice one of the following features in their design choices: decentralization, security, or scalability (you can only have two of the above at any given time). From the project perspective, we have had to navigate the above trilemma by using centralized components of system architecture, such as the combination of a private blockchain and AWS to offer the throughput and security guarantees required by the client. That is, until a time when public blockchains have scaled to a point where these centralized components may be migrated exclusively on-chain, should the client desire to do so. To this end, the system currently prioritizes scalability and security over decentralization, but uses the Ethereum blockchain’s high degree of assurance to provide verifiability, as well as a smart contract environment on which the NFTs minted on the platform can be used. The system employs a private blockchain created by Devexperts for all the computational steps that would be too costly and slow to currently perform on the Ethereum network. The platform uses AWS for live streaming, data storage, logging, messaging, email, and SMS. Filecoin and the IPFS protocols were initially considered as decentralized storage solutions, however, it was decided that these protocols, while ticking the right decentralization boxes, were not sufficiently mature to currently be able to handle the multimedia demands of the platform. In response to the difficulty of running such a platform as an app on either the App Store or Google Play store, the development team opted for the creation of a web app optimized for mobile use. Solution diagram AWS Live Streaming System Design The platform comprises a Creator’s Portal, an NFT Marketplace, and Smart Contract for interaction with the Ethereum public chain. Content is uploaded, stored, and managed by artists on the Creator’s Portal. It is then minted as NFTs and made available to the public on the NFT Marketplace, which includes a matching engine, allowing for NFTs to be tradable immediately after the sale. Finally, the smart contract component allows activity that takes place on the NFT marketplace (minting, sale, and transfer of ownership of NFTs). Since the platform is intended for widespread usage beyond crypto natives and seeks to be a gateway for non-crypto users into the space, it allows for traditional account creation logic such as logging in with Google or Facebook credentials, SMS verification, etc. However, it is also in the process of being integrated with a number of the most popular custodial and non-custodial crypto wallets in the crypto space allowing for full crypto functionality, including the withdrawal of tokens for use on the main Ethereum chain. The platform employs the following development frameworks for its various components: The Creator Portal and NFT Marketplace frontend is based on ReactJS Framework. All media is hosted on the AWS S3 cloud platform. All blockchain logic is currently based on the Ethereum stack, using Solidity, with a view to providing future blockchain interoperability as the scalability race between protocols intensifies. As we needed to launch fast scale rapidly, we decided to leverage a number of cloud-native services of AWS: live-streaming and media services to create and tear down live streams of any given quality on demand, SQS as a message queue, SES for notifications, ElastiCache for quick media look up and ECS as a service discovery and docker containers orchestration mechanism. Michael, Solution Architect Results The client received an NFT ecosystem that inspires performers to monetize their art by connecting them directly with their fan base and remaining in control of their creations. The solution’s workflow looks the following way: Artists upload, store, and manage content on the platform. The content gets minted as NFTs and goes public on the marketplace. NFTs become tradable immediately after the sale. To help performers escape additional commission fees of application stores, we delivered the platform as a web app optimized for mobile use. We opted for a private blockchain for all computational steps because they’re costly and slow if performed on the Ethereum network. But we employed the Ethereum blockchain and a smart contract environment to ensure the system’s verifiability. The platform is compatible with the following Ethereum standards: ERC-721. Ethereum’s standard non-fungible token that is unique and not interchangeable with any other tokens. ERC-1155. An improvement of the ERC-20 and ERC-721 token standards, allowing for multiple fungible and non-fungible tokens to be sent in a single smart contract transaction ERC-998. An extension of the ERC-721, allowing a new token to “compose,” or own a group of other fungible and non-fungible tokens. ERC-2309: An extension of the ERC-721 token standard, and improvement on ERC-115, allowing for the creation and transfer of an infinite amount on ERC-721 tokens as in the case of the mass minting on NFTs.
We Are Going to TradingTech Summit London 2023 January 27, 2023 Would you like to explore the latest developments in trading technology and learn how to apply them in your business? Join us at TradingTech Summit London on February 28! The agenda will cover a range of challenges and trends: cloud migration risk and security in cloud environments market data disruption and innovation insights from data science and advanced analytics AI and machine learning for trading workflow efficiencies the impact of ESG and sustainable trading on the trading landscape. Our representatives are business development experts with a background in engineering. If you need to upgrade your trading platform or find a software solution to a business challenge, you can speak to: Vitaly Kudinov, SVP of Sales and Business Development Ben Clark, VP of Business Development Michael Sprachman, VP of Brokerage Trading Platforms Our experts will provide a vision for modernizing your brokerage and point out scalability opportunities. You’ll also learn about our product suite and see it in action. We look forward to seeing you at our stand on February 28 at Hilton Canary Wharf, London! You can schedule a meeting with us by filling out the form on our website.
Meet Us at iFX Expo Dubai 2023 December 14, 2022 Devexperts representatives are joining the largest B2B financial expo in Middle Asia – iFX Expo Dubai! The event presents numerous opportunities to network and connect with C-level executives from international companies and industry experts. Representatives from different industries are attending, including Technology & Service Providers, Digital Assets & Blockchain, Retail & Institutional Brokers, Payments, Banks & Liquidity Providers, Affiliates & IBs, and Regulation & Compliance. This year’s edition will take place from the 16th to the 18th of January, 2023, at the Dubai World Trade Centre. It’ll host more than 100 speakers and 3,500 attendees. Devexperts representatives will be available to discuss some of the company’s best products, like the DXtrade platform, Devexa, DXcharts, and more. DXtrade is a great solution for established brokers looking to add another trading platform to their range. It’s also suitable for startup brokers looking for a quick solution to help them launch their businesses. Devexa is a virtual assistant for traders. It can help boost brokerage or referral programs. It also shows real-time quotes, charts, and fundamentals. DXcharts is a powerful HTML5 financial charting library that the company can roll out into production in just a day. It has multiple chart layouts, price scales, and trading tools. If you’re curious to know more about our offerings, you can meet our experts at booth #79. Our team will be represented by: Vitaly Kudinov, SVP of Sales and Business Development Ben Clark, VP of Business Development Evgeny Sorokin, VP of Business Development Elena Gorbacheva, PR Manager Alexander Mamalev, Deputy VP Sales Administration Denis Kozlov, VP of Business Development Schedule a meeting with our experts by filling out the form on our website. We are also going to iFX EXPO LATAM 2024 in Mexico City.
We are going to FMLS 2022 October 21, 2022 Devexperts representatives are joining the Finance Magnates London Summit (FMLS). This year’s edition marks the event’s 10th anniversary. The FMLS conference covers financial services, crypto, payments, and FinTech. The 2022 edition includes four new content tracks. They include leading executives from the online trading sector, key players in the FX/CFD and crypto space, and emergent and leading fintech companies using technology to improve financial services. This year’s summit will have 3,500+ attendees, 130+ speakers, and 150+ exhibitors. It will feature next-generation products and you’ll meet representatives from different areas. Additionally, sessions will cover neobanking, banking platforms, cybersecurity, and more. Attendees have the opportunity to network, attend presentations and talks, and test software. During the event, you’ll be able to test some of Devexperts’ newest and best products, including: DXtrade CFD and DXtrade Crypto These products are suitable for established brokers looking to add another trading platform to their range. They’re also great for startup brokers who want a quick-to-deploy solution to launch their business. DXtrade XT The product is ideal for brokers offering exchange-traded assets. Devexa Devexa is an AI assistant and chatbot for brokers and their traders. While you’re attending FMLS, you can directly chat with Devexa, send orders, and request quotes. You can even test the chatbot as an integrated widget into the trading platform. Gate45 This is a multiple trading server hub for multi-asset brokers. It has a dealing monitor and unified API. It enables brokers to integrate IT ecosystems with trading servers. This is regardless of how many platforms or what brands you use. Our team representatives are business development specialists with an engineering background. They can test your trading infrastructure and find ways to improve it. You can schedule a meeting with: Ben Clark, VP of Business DevelopmentJon Light, VP of Trading Solutions (for FX and Crypto brokers)Vitaly Kudinov, SVP of Sales and Business DevelopmentDenis Kozlov, VP of Business DevelopmentMichael Sprachman, VP of Brokerage Trading Platform (for stocks, options, futures, funds, bonds brokers) Jon Light will be part of The Cutting Edge: Advances in Trading Technology panel. You can meet him at booth #1. The conference will be a great opportunity for you to network with industry professionals. It’s also a unique spot to get to know Devexperts’ team and products. Schedule a free consultation with our experts in advance by filling out this form.
We are going to TOKEN2049 in London 2022 October 11, 2022 TOKEN2049 is an annual crypto event, that brings together investors, developers, entrepreneurs, industry insiders, and global media. It’s a wonderful opportunity for all attendees to network and participate in workshops, hackathons, and dinners. The Singapore event in September welcomed 7000+ visitors, among which traders, investors, crypto brokers, heads of digital assets trading, and more. This year’s European edition will take place at Magazine London, located in Greenwich Peninsula, on November 9 – 10. The list of guests includes more than 150 speakers and 100+ sponsors. The topics will cover new trends, regulations, opportunities, and more from the crypto world. Our team’s representatives are business development specialists with an engineering background. If you’re interested in improving your cryptocurrency trading platform or you would like to learn more about our services, you can speak with: Jon Light, Vice President of Trading Solutions (FX and Crypto)Ben Clark, Vice President Of Business DevelopmentLyubomir Valchanov, Business Development Manager You can find them at booth #MB39. Our experts can consult you on revamping your broker’s infrastructure, point out scalability issues and areas to consider, as well as offer advice about your growth strategy. You will also have the opportunity to learn more about our suite of products and get a feel for them in our demo. Our company has been consulting and developing for the financial industry for two decades, so our representatives have a lot of experience to share. We specialize in the development of financial software and we help businesses launch fast with our out-of-the-box trading platforms and to grow and gain an advantage by providing custom software solutions. Schedule a meeting with our experts by filling out the form on our website.
Supersonic Charting Solution for One of the Biggest Global Financial Platforms September 30, 2022 About the Client The client is a media platform with 150 mln visitors monthly, quite often topping the finance websites rating in the Alexa or Similarweb ranks globally. The platform provides actual news, real-time market data, and other information relating to the financial markets. Business Challenge The client was looking for a charting solution as a core of a new analytical B2C system. DXcharts, being one of the leading charting solutions on the market, became a perfect fit for this goal. Following the customer needs, DXcharts already provided a comprehensive set of features such as 42 drawings, customizable intervals, 11 chart types, accessibility compliance, etc. Along with the great functionality, impeccable performance was a critical factor to the client: the charting solution had to be working in a high-load environment, a multiple-chart layouts mode, where users launch up to 16 charts at once. It meant that the solution must operate an enormous workload with no productivity or availability loss. None of the then-current market leaders could provide as productive and efficient charts as required. Solution To solve this task, DXcharts team undertook a series of optimization measures. We managed to reduce the CPU usage, increased FPS, and eventually boosted up the DXcharts performance multiple times (see the Results section). The team made DXcharts work smoothly even in high load conditions, such as rendering 8, 12, and 16 charts with market data and indicators updating in real time. As the final step, we tested DXcharts under extreme workload, employing heavy configuration that would exceed the setups of the most sophisticated users. Devexperts ran the tests several times to ensure that DXcharts will sustain the future performance challenges beyond the project requirements. Charting is an essential tool in a trader’s toolbox. As a product manager, I always wanted DXcharts to be the best “swiss army knife’’ there is. This project was quite challenging, I would say we unlocked the whole new level: the growing functionality and ease of implementation should now be accompanied by supersonic speed. It is so delightful to see it through. I truly believe that the users would enjoy it. Andrey Shuvlenov, Product Manager of DXcharts I enjoyed working with Devexperts who competed to become our charting vendor. Their team did go the extra mile to satisfy the most demanding requirements of our users – analysts and traders with multi-monitor configurations. VP of Product, Client Representative DXcharts Performance Test The test has been performed on the layouts with 1, 4, 8, 12, and 16 charts. EnvironmentDescriptionSetupBrowser: Chromium 101.0.4950.0 (Developer Build) (x86_64)Hardware: 6-Core Intel Core i7, 32GB RAMScreen resolution: 2048×1280Test Application: React application which uses only chart-core package to build multi-chart layoutThe test compares previous version DXcharts library to the latest version Quote rate: 10qps (10 price updates per second for each chart)Test duration: 5 secTotal runs: 15Applied studies: Volumes, MACD, Relative Strength Index, STARC Bands, Bollinger Bands, Average True Range, Aroon Oscillator, Average Directional Index, Accumulation/Distribution, On Balance Volume, Momentum Application with the current DXcharts version Results The result is a significant difference between the previous (DXcharts v 3.6.1) and the current version (DXcharts v 5.x.x).Take a look at the tables below for details. CPU Usage. Current version of DXcharts requires fewer CPU resources across all the test scenarios than the previous version.FPS. Current version of DXcharts shows more FPS with fewer frame drops across all the test scenarios than the previous version. CPU Load DXcharts Current VersionDXcharts Previous Version1-chart layout14%97%4-chart layout39%99%8-chart layout57%99%12-chart layout80%99%16-chart layout95%99% FPS DXcharts Current VersionDXcharts Previous Version1-chart layout40224-chart layout32,34,28-chart layout28,22,412-chart layout211,416-chart layout151,2 The resulting performance shows clearly that DXcharts can be run even on most demanding configurations. Our advanced feature-rich supersonic charting solution, seamlessly implemented into high-load financial platforms and news websites, can cover any client’s needs. Follow the link to check out the DXcharts performance yourself—https://devexperts.com/dxcharts-demo/.
A Spot and Margin Cryptocurrency Trading Platform for a European Broker September 23, 2022 About the Client The client is a European cryptocurrency broker and hedge fund offering margin and spot trading. Through partnerships with real-economy enterprises, they also issue and list coins to provide traders with opportunities to invest in welfare projects. Business Challenge The client required a spot and margin cryptocurrency trading platform to launch their brokerage business. Willing to provide traders with the best user experience, the broker looked for a seasoned solution. As the crypto hype was rising, time for completion was also critical. This is why they looked for an out-of-the-box solution that would take less than a month to set up. As the client wanted to offer their traders both speculative trading and the actual purchase of cryptocurrency assets, the platform needed to provide margin and spot trading, plus integration with cryptocurrency wallets and payment providers. Solution Devexperts has a turnkey trading platform for cryptocurrency brokers—DXtrade. The client found out about it while searching online and approached us with their business challenge. After a demo and a series of consultations, the broker decided that DXtrade was the best fit for them, so Devexperts proceeded to set up the platform. The main challenge was to make switching between spot and margin trading seamless. In DXtrade, we achieved this: traders can use their spot and margin accounts within one platform, seamlessly switching between account types under one login. Then, we configured withdrawal procedures and spot account metrics, such as an indicative balance and the ability to lock funds in use for working orders. The platform was also equipped with the Funds widget that breaks down the balances of a cash account. Funds widget in DXtrade In terms of design, we customized the trading platform with the client’s brand identity. The last setup stage included the platform’s integration with the client’s trading servers and subsequent load testing. DXtrade already includes integration with crypto liquidity hubs, payment providers, and cryptocurrency wallets, so the setup process took only two weeks. Thus, we met the tight deadlines, and the brokerage was ready to be launched on schedule. Results The client received everything to launch the cryptocurrency brokerage with spot and margin trading. DXtrade’s configuration allows traders to switch between their spot and margin accounts seamlessly. Due to DXtrade’s straightforward and advantageous pricing model, the client minimized commissions. The broker also offered traders opportunities to invest in welfare projects through spot cryptocurrency trading and coins issued together with real economy businesses.
A Technical Analysis Toolset for a US-Based Investing Education Platform July 7, 2022 About the Client The client is a US-based company that offers cryptocurrency investors web and mobile platforms for technical analysis and trading education. Business Challenge The client’s goal was to provide their crypto investors with a broad range of instruments for technical analysis on their web and mobile platforms. The client also required integration with a crypto broker of their choice, so they could start providing crypto investors with trading capabilities. In addition, the client wanted the solution’s architecture to be configured as broker-agnostic and extendable to support multiple brokers in the future. Solution When considering software vendors for this project, the client chose Devexperts due to our successful track record of implementing analytical solutions. We also worked with the client before, and they were aware of our approach to development and satisfied with it. As the basis for the platforms’ toolset, we took DXcharts, our proprietary interface for technical analysis and market data visualization of multiple asset classes both in real-time and retroactively. We have a web version of DXcharts, as well as native mobile frontends for iOS and Android. DXcharts light theme For this project, we introduced some enhancements into DXcharts, so all the analytical tools were geared to cryptocurrencies. Then, we seamlessly integrated DXcharts into the client’s web and mobile platforms. DXcharts dark theme With this upgrade, the client’s platforms received numerous features that facilitate both novice and experienced crypto investors. The technical analysis tools were also aimed at the client’s personnel who provide crypto investors with insights for educational purposes. DXcharts mobile dark theme DXcharts mobile light theme On top of this, we integrated a news feed and a chat. We also designed and implemented a watchlist, which was subsequently integrated with the first onboarded broker to monitor investors’ positions. Results The project resulted in the successful launch of the web and mobile platforms that offer crypto investors a broad range of analytical tools, market news, and a chat box. The client’s staff leverages the platforms to provide investors with market insights and increase their engagement. Along with trading education and market insights, investors now have a better user experience due to a smooth transition from the client’s analytical solution to the broker’s trading platform.