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What Parallelshots Is

Follow our journey from a desk at IBM to building the internet exchange.

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Learn about our vision and what we’ve built.

Vision

Why ex Meta, IBM engineers started building the internet exchange.

Our Matching Engine

Understand the architecture powering trades on Parallelshots.

Privacy

Why compliant Privacy matters and how we achieved it.

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Why This Matters

Parallelshots exists because the current generation of exchanges is structurally misaligned with how markets now form on the internet. The era of DeFi edge over TradFi is long gone, Long-live DeFi! The internet now creates markets faster than institutions can list them. Memecoins, narratives, and events reach global liquidity in hours, not quarters. The infrastructure meant to serve these markets remains slow, opaque, and structurally mismatched. That gap is the opportunity. Parallelshots is built by engineers who have designed and defended large-scale systems at Meta and IBM. That experience matters. High-velocity markets are adversarial by default. Latency, manipulation, information leakage, and scale are not edge cases. They are the core problem. Parallelshots is engineered with that reality as a baseline. Memecoins illustrate this shift clearly. While spot memecoin market caps have peaked around $50–100 billion, derivatives markets historically generate 5–10× the volume of spot. Even conservative assumptions imply a hundreds-of-billions-of-dollars annual trading opportunity that remains largely untapped due to missing leverage, shorting, and risk infrastructure. Parallelshots unlocks that layer. We are also building compliant privacy. Not anonymity theater. Real protection against front-running and extraction, while remaining auditable, rule-based, and regulator-legible. At its core, Parallelshots is not just a trading venue. Leverage, perps, and prediction markets are the same primitive: expressing belief about the future with capital. That is why Parallelshots is building the exchange layer for everything that can be priced. We are starting in the US because serious markets demand serious foundations. From there, scale is inevitable.