DoubleZero co-founder addresses whether faster Kalshi data disadvantages retail traders

DoubleZero co-founder Austin Federa has defended open access to Kalshi’s faster election-market data feed while confirming that the infrastructure remains read-only and provides no way to submit or execute trades. Summary DoubleZero Edge distributes Kalshi order-book data but does not route or execute orders. Any participant can subscribe to the same feed, according to co-founder Austin Federa. Dedicated fiber and multicast replace the public-internet delivery used by Kalshi’s API and WebSocket. DoubleZero will publish transport benchmarks but will leave market-quality reporting to Kalshi. Austin Federa told crypto.news that professional traders tend to compete on speed with each other, while tighter competition between market makers can produce narrower spreads and better prices for other participants. Federa was responding to concerns that professional firms receiving faster information could gain an advantage over retail users who continue to access Kalshi through slower public-internet connections. “Our answer to the imbalance concern is open access: the fastest data path shouldn’t be private rails and at unreachable price-levels. By placing Kalshi election market data over Dou...