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How We Cut a Trading Bot's Reaction Time from ~2 Seconds to Milliseconds — by Moving Only the Hot Path to Rust article cover
EngineeringJul 18, 20268 min read

How We Cut a Trading Bot's Reaction Time from ~2 Seconds to Milliseconds — by Moving Only the Hot Path to Rust

A live market-making bot on the Polymarket prediction market was leaking money to a slow control loop. We kept the quant logic in Python and moved only the latency-critical execution path into a Rust sidecar — cutting the reaction time on the most expensive event from roughly two seconds to the low tens of milliseconds.

By Alexander Vinokurov