AERON Aeron Exchange Accelerator

Bespoke exchange and matching engine technology — delivered fast.

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Get the best of both worlds:
Foundational capabilities out-of-the-box.
Customization on top.

The Aeron Exchange Accelerator provides award-winning exchange and matching engine technology that gives businesses the flexibility, control, and agility they need to stay ahead.

  • Core functionality out-of-the-box
  • Customization without the cost
  • Fast time to market "Buy and Build"
  • Openness
  • IP ownership
  • High performance, resilience, consistency
  • Proven in production
  • Exceptional managed service [optional]
  • Core functionality out-of-the-box Leverage functionally-rich product blocks, fully maintained and supported by Adaptive, to eliminate foundational heavy lifting.

  • Customization without the cost Tailor the platform to your exact requirements without the high cost or the long-term support burden of a fully bespoke build.

  • Fast time to market "Buy and Build" Rapidly develop proprietary features on top of our stack, with a clean architectural separation between Adaptive’s IP and yours.

  • Openness Access and license the accelerator source code, fostering partnership and transparency.

  • IP ownership Maintain full control over your bespoke IP and innovation roadmap without vendor lock-in.

  • High performance, resilience, consistency Underpinned by Aeron’s industry-standard infrastructure to ensure ultra-low latency and mission-critical reliability.

  • Proven in production Deploy with confidence; our Accelerator powers multiple global venues across spot and derivative markets, providing battle-tested, mature foundations from Day 1.

  • Exceptional managed service [optional] Shift the operational burden to us—we manage routine maintenance, updates, and underlying infrastructure, so your team can focus on differentiation.

Case Studies & Content

Live and in production at leading exchanges – across spot and derivative markets

  1. Adaptive - Trading Technology, built for you.

    CASE STUDIES

    EDXM: Building a fault-tolerant, low-latency exchange in 7 months

  2. ErisX - Adaptive Financial Consulting - Case Study

    CASE STUDIES

    ErisX: Accelerating the build of a matching engine

  3. Adaptive - Trading Technology, built for you.

    BLOG

    Exchange Accelerator: A new approach to matching engine technology

Get core trading features out-of-the-box
with microsecond latency, high throughput,
and exceptional reliability and uptime guarantees.

The Aeron Exchange Accelerator is structured as functionally-rich, source-available building blocks that can be expanded and customized for more specialized needs.

  • Adaptive - Trading technology, built for you.

    Matching Engine

    • Price-Time priority matching.
    • Order book states for listed, open, suspended and post only.
    • Support for Market, Price Limit, Cost Limit and Post Only Limit Orders.
    • FoK, GTT, GTC, IoC Time In Force support.
    • Self match prevention.
  • Adaptive - Trading technology, built for you.

    Risk Management

    • Data structures for Accounts, Positions, Orders and Balances
    • Fully funded risk model for spot with balance management and pre-trade checks.
    • Management of actual and available balances across trading activity to validate funding.
    • Market and limit order collateralisation support.
  • Adaptive - Trading technology, built for you.

    Reference Data

    • Instrument and product reference data model.
    • Counterparty reference data model.
    • Account / data model.
  • Adaptive - Trading technology, built for you.

    Market Data

    • Market Data available through FIX and Binary Socket gateways.
    • Security list support.
    • Price aggregated market data or individual order.
    • Snapshots and Delta feeds.
  • Adaptive - Trading technology, built for you.

    Order Entry

    • Order Entry through FIX.
    • Session management with slow consumer disconnection and sequence resets.
    • Cancel on disconnect support.
    • Rate limiting protections at the gateway level.
  • Adaptive - Trading technology, built for you.

    Market Operations

    • Manage trading accounts, product configuration and fee structures.
    • Audit trails and logs for configuration changes.
    • Historic order query and retrieval.
    • Fund management API.

Let’s get technical

The Aeron Exchange Accelerator: Engineered for performance and resilience

  • Based on open-source Aeron® technology
  • Flexible, extensible core platform
  • High availability, resilience and microsecond latency
  • Flexible deployment models – cloud, hybrid, on-prem
  • Integration with external systems via gateways and connectivity components
  • Source Code available
  • Partner-compatible interoperability

Further reading

  1. Trading Technology for Capital Markets by Adaptive

    GET IN TOUCH

    Let’s chat about your exchange tech needs.

  2. Trading Technology for Capital Markets by Adaptive

    CASE STUDIES

    EDXM - Building a fault-tolerant, low-latency exchange in 7 months

  3. Capital Markets

    BLOG

    The capital markets crystal ball: Trends to watch in 2026

  4. MarketsMedia Industry Research: Tech Deployment Patterns in Capital Markets

    INDUSTRY RESEARCH

    The Modernization Mandate: Who Calls the Shots on Trading Tech?