{"id":306,"date":"2023-11-21T13:14:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T13:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.0.1.147\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2024-07-02T04:37:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T04:37:18","slug":"developers-decentralized-exchange","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hashcashconsultants.com\/developers-decentralized-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Developers Decentralized Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-8 col-md-8 col-lg-9 float-right\">\n<div class=\"hashcash_developer_sidebar_right\">\n<div class=\"developer_sidebar_right_wrapper \">\n<div class=\"developer-breedcumb anim1 delay-750\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hashcashconsultants.com\/developers-hc-net-core\">Tutorials<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&gt;<\/li>\n<li>Get Started<\/li>\n<li>&gt;<\/li>\n<li>Network overview<\/li>\n<li>&gt;<\/li>\n<li>Decentralized Exchange<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"developer_sidebar_right_inner\">\n<div class=\"developer_sidebar_right_header_wrap\">\n<h2 class=\"developer_sidebar_right_header anim6\"><span class=\"header_left\">Decentralized<\/span> <span class=\"header_right\">Exchange<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"developer_sidebar_right_inner_sect anim4\">\n<h3>Decentralized Exchange<\/h3>\n<p>In addition to supporting the issuing and movement of <a href=\"developers-assetbasics\">assets<\/a>, the HC Net also acts as a decentralized exchange of any type of asset that people have added to the network. Its ledger stores both balances held by user accounts and offers that user accounts make to buy or sell assets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"developer_sidebar_right_inner_sect anim4\">\n<h3>Offers<\/h3>\n<p>An account can make offers to buy or sell assets using the Manage Offer operation. In order to make an offer, the account must hold the asset it wants to sell. Similarly, the account must trust the issuer of the asset it\u2019s trying to buy.<\/p>\n<p>When an account makes an offer, the offer is checked against the existing orderbook for that asset pair. If the offer crosses an existing offer, it is filled at the price of the existing offer. Let\u2019s say that you make an offer to buy 10 HCX for 2 BTC. If an offer already exists to sell 10 HCX for 2 BTC, your offer will take that offer\u2013you\u2019ll be 2 BTC poorer but 10 HCX richer.<\/p>\n<p>If the offer doesn\u2019t cross an existing offer, the offer is saved in the orderbook until it is either taken by another offer, taken by a payment, canceled by the account that created the offer, or invalidated because the account making the offer no longer has the asset for sale.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in protocol version 10, it is no longer possible for an offer to be invalidated because the account owning the offer no longer has the asset for sale. Each offer contributes selling liabilities for the selling asset and buying liabilities for the buying asset, which are aggregated in the account (for HCX) or trustline (for other assets) owned by the account creating the offer. Any operation that would cause an account to be unable to satisfy its liabilities, such as sending away too much balance, will fail. This guarantees that any offer in the orderbook can be executed entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Offers in HC Net behave like limit orders in traditional markets.<\/p>\n<p>For offers placed at the same price, the older offer is filled before the newer one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"developer_sidebar_right_inner_sect anim4\">\n<h3>Orderbook<\/h3>\n<p>An orderbook is a record of outstanding orders on the HC Net. This record sits between any two assets\u2013in this case, let\u2019s say the assets are sheep and wheat. The orderbook records every account wanting to buy sheep for wheat on one side and every account wanting to sell sheep for wheat on the other side.<\/p>\n<p>Some assets will have a very thin or nonexistent orderbook between them. That\u2019s fine: as discussed in greater detail below, paths of orders can facilitate exchange between two thinly traded assets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"developer_sidebar_right_inner_sect anim4\">\n<h3>Passive offers<\/h3>\n<p>Passive offers allow markets to have zero spread. If you want to offer USD from Institutional Host A for USD from Institutional Host B at a 1:1 price, you can create two passive offers so the two offers don\u2019t fill each other.<\/p>\n<p>A passive offer is an offer that does not take a counteroffer of equal price. It will only fill if the prices are not equal. For example, if the best offer to buy BTC for HCX has a price of 100HCX\/BTC, and you make a passive offer to sell BTC at 100HCX\/BTC, your passive offer does not take that existing offer. If you instead make a passive offer to sell BTC at 99HCX\/BTC it would cross the existing offer and fill at 100HCX\/BTC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"developer_sidebar_right_inner_sect anim4\">\n<h3>Cross-asset payments<\/h3>\n<p>Suppose you are holding sheep and want to buy something from a store that only accepts wheat. You can create a payment in HC Net that will automatically convert your sheep into wheat. It goes through the sheep\/wheat orderbook and converts your sheep at the best available rate.<\/p>\n<p>You can also make more complicated paths of asset conversion. Imagine that the sheep\/wheat orderbook has a very large spread or is nonexistent. In this case, you might get a better rate if you first trade your sheep for brick and then sell that brick for wheat. So a potential path would be 2 hops: sheep-&gt;brick-&gt;wheat. This path would take you through the sheep\/brick orderbook and then the brick\/wheat orderbook.<\/p>\n<p>These paths of asset conversion can contain up to 6 hops, but the whole payment is atomic\u2013it will either succeed or fail. The payment sender will never be left holding an unwanted asset.<\/p>\n<p>This process of finding the best path of a payment is called pathfinding. Pathfinding involves looking at the current orderbooks and finding which series of conversions gives you the best rate. It is handled outside of HC Net Core by something like Aurora.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"developer_sidebar_right_inner_sect anim4\">\n<h3>Preferred currency<\/h3>\n<p>Because cross-asset payments are so simple with HC Net, users can keep their money in whatever asset they prefer to hold. Preferred currency creates a very flexible, open system.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a world where, anytime you travel, you never have to exchange currency except at the point of sale. A world where you can choose to keep all your assets in, for example, Google stock, cashing out small amounts as you need to pay for things. Cross-asset payments make this world possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutorials &gt; Get Started &gt; Network overview &gt; Decentralized Exchange Decentralized Exchange Decentralized Exchange In addition to supporting the issuing and movement of assets, the HC Net also acts as a decentralized exchange of any type of asset that people have added to the network. 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