Eliminating High Frequency Trading and Creating ‘Fairer’ Markets

Eliminating High Frequency Trading and Creating ‘Fairer’ Markets

Cryptocurrency exchange PS Coin rebrands as Laissez Faire as it continues its mission to correctly incentivize trading. The magic behind Laissez Faire is their incentive algorithm; an algorithm designed to encourage what Co-Founder, Daniel Pusateri calls "healthy" behavior among traders. Traders on Laissez Faire are automatically compensated with royalties for placing orders for as many units of currency as they can, as close to the bid-ask-spread as they dare. As a result, all of the bids and asks seen on the Laissez Faire markets are not an illusion of stability, but actual stability.....


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