Inside TheHUB, fair access starts with the physical network. Step inside the facility to see how participants connect, how fiber paths are calibrated to equalize latency, and how orders are timestamped at entry.

“Tokyo is a center of gravity for crypto activity. It’s no coincidence that we chose it as TheHUB’s first location, and we’re glad @Kinetiq_xyz is bringing @Enter_Elysium's Hyperliquid infrastructure here.” @Thiagorudiger, CSO of Global Kiwi Labs. Read the full article below:

Elysium is Kinetiq’s DeFi chain for @HyperliquidX, with high-frequency trading and prop AMMs as flagship use cases. Elysium’s node will provide the chain with HyperCore and HyperEVM state, and power the precompile its contracts use to read HyperCore data. Hyperliquid’s own node docs recommend Tokyo for the lowest latency. That’s where it will run, inside TheHUB. Glad to be working with @Enter_Elysium and @Kinetiq_xyz. Looking forward to Elysium’s mainnet on November 9th.

An accurate record of order arrival times is critical to fair and transparent markets. Inside TheHUB, order traffic is hardware-timestamped at network ingress using a shared, GPS-synchronized master clock. This creates an auditable record of when each order arrived, before it reaches the venue’s matching engine.

TheHUB is being built inside @Equinix in Tokyo to give digital markets a level playing field: venues, trading firms, node operators and infrastructure providers in one physical environment, where traders reach venues over the same network, at the same latency, by design. Venues compete on market design, while traders compete on strategy and execution. Thanks to the Equinix team for highlighting what we're building in Tokyo!

Tighter spreads attract more trading activity, which makes a venue more attractive to market makers. The more venues operate inside the same facility, the more valuable that facility becomes to every trading firm connected to it. That’s the magnetic effect behind TheHUB.

TheHUB provides purpose-built colocation infrastructure for latency-sensitive markets, with its first facility inside Equinix TY15 in Tokyo. Exchanges, trading firms, bare metal providers, and node operators can operate in the same building, connected through one network, under equalized latency. Participants can bring their own servers or use bare-metal or on-prem cloud providers. Inside TheHUB, every trading firm’s network path to a venue’s matching engine is designed to be the same length, so no participant can buy a shorter connection.

In case you missed yesterday’s film: whether participants’ servers are inside TheHUB's cage or connected from outside, the fiber paths to each venue's matching engine are measured and adjusted to the same length. The result is equal latency to the matching engines for every participant, regardless of where their servers are located. That’s what we call latency equalization.

For compute providers serving trading firms, proximity to exchanges is part of the product. Traditionally, that has meant deploying infrastructure wherever a matching engine operates. At TheHUB, a single cross-connect into the facility means providers can offer access to multiple venues while keeping their existing infrastructure. Every connection to TheHUB is fiber-length equalized to match the network paths inside the facility, giving providers the same access to hosted matching engines without deploying cabinets alongside each one. As new venues join, that same connection gives their customers access to more markets.

Colocation is often associated with the biggest HFT firms, but it matters just as much to smaller trading firms that can't afford to compete in the same infrastructure arms race. Inside TheHUB, every participant reaches a venue's matching engine at the same latency. With fair market access, firms can compete on better models, better execution, and better risk management, rather than on who can afford the fastest connection.