Programmatic Trading

Enabled through rich CEX-style APIs for deployment of market making, liquidity provision, and directional trading strategies

Market
makers

User who place static or pagged order limit volume on the book will receive a percentage of the trade value when matched based on the maker fee factor set on the network

Liquidity
providers

Users willing to commit a set bond amount to help ensure a market's liquidity additionally earn a liquidity provision fee set per market. Learn more

Starter kit

1. Pre-requisites

Market making and liquidity provision is risky and for sophisticated parties only. Users of this page should be able to:

i. Actively manage liquidity deployed to a limit order book

ii. Understand how derivatives pricing works, specifically cash-settle futures

iii. Code automated trading strategies and operate and monitor them 24/7

iv. Understand the nuances of integrating with a blockchain

v. Manage inventory risk and build trading strategies that manage exposure to maintain neutrality

vi. Manage risk effectively in a leveraged trading environment

2. CLI Wallet

A version of the command line wallet is shopped with every new version of the protocol allowing developers to programmatically sign transactions and access dApps on any network running the protocol

Download CLI Wallet

Advanced: Set up your own test network

Experiment with the protocol by creating your own network on your computer

Install Vega capsule