Eli Williams
May 22, 2021

Sure thing! If you do a quick Google search, you will see FTX's matching engine servers are located in the ap-northeast-1 AWS region in Tokyo, hence the low latencies in Asia.

If you visit the IP you provided directly in your browser you will see it is being run through Cloudflare, which is used to mask the origin IP address of the FTX server. This is a common and necessary safety precaution on the exchange's behalf to prevent DDoS and similar attacks. In other words, the IP you are seeing is not the actual IP address of FTX's servers, it's a Cloudflare proxy IP.

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Eli Williams
Eli Williams

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Crypto Market Making at @SQSTrading

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