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Cross-chain orderbook

Match on one chain, settle on many — inside a latency budget.

The problem

A cross-chain orderbook lives or dies on latency. If matching state takes seconds to reach the settlement chain, you are running a batch auction, not an orderbook. Traditional message layers with multi-second quorum times cannot host a competitive book.

How Switchboard does it

Switchboard commits the match to the Solana coordinator in the next slot and races a relayer pool to settle on each destination chain, landing p99 under 400ms. One order object propagates to every venue chain without a bespoke bridge per corridor.

  • p50 ~250ms coordination keeps quotes fresh across venues.
  • One commit fans out to every settlement chain you support.
  • Pluggable verifiers let you pick security per settlement chain.

Build cross-chain orderbook on Switchboard.

Start with the quickstart, read the architecture, or talk to us about your workload.

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