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== 3.4. Syncing orders between servers is efficient ==

Enforcible matching allows the order book to be sorted and organized more efficiently, thereby guaranteeing traders get the best price with accurate pricing information. The idea allows for efficient syncing:

Since orders are sorted it means the most valuable orders can be synced first when moving the order book to a new matching server. This means that the entire order book doesn’t need to be moved all at once for a new matching server to have initially useful information.

This design ensures that the order book is synced, and it may be possible to create a provable chain of trades on top of this where moving the order book to another server is provable and unlocks all the fees earned by the previous matching server.

This could be accomplished quite easily if the server builds onto a hashed chain of orders and signs every new open order as a new link in the chain. Breaks in the chain are provable, the state easily stamped, lying would be provable on chain since any user could refute a link or refute the depth of the chain.

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