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Parallelshots is a permissionless leveraged trading protocol that enables the creation and exchange of synthetic long and short exposures on arbitrary on-chain assets, with a primary focus on memecoins, via a Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) architecture. The protocol is designed to decouple asset listing from centralized approval processes by allowing any participant to instantiate a tradable market through submission of a token contract address, subject to deterministic liquidity validation and oracle availability constraints. At the core of Parallelshots is a hybrid execution model in which order matching is performed by a high-performance matching engine enforcing strict price-time priority, while trade settlement, margin accounting, and risk enforcement are executed on-chain. This separation allows the protocol to achieve low-latency execution comparable to centralized exchanges, while preserving the transparency, verifiability, and non-custodial guarantees of decentralized finance. Each market on Parallelshots represents a perpetual contract whose payoff is defined as the mark-to-market difference between an entry price and a continuously updated reference price derived from oracle inputs. Positions are cash-settled and do not require physical delivery of the underlying asset, enabling native short exposure even for assets with limited borrow markets. Leverage is achieved through marginization, whereby traders post collateral to control notional exposure greater than their deposited capital, subject to protocol-defined risk parameters. The protocol natively supports funding rate mechanisms to enforce long-term convergence between the perpetual market price and the underlying spot price. All state transitions related to balances, margin requirements, profit and loss, and liquidation outcomes are executed on-chain, ensuring that the system remains auditable, deterministic, and resistant to discretionary intervention.

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1.2 Market Focus

Parallelshots is architected with a US-first regulatory posture, prioritizing transparency, determinism, and auditability at the protocol level. Design decisions across execution, accounting, and risk management explicitly favor structures that are legible to regulators, auditors, and institutional counterparties. This includes a clear separation of roles between protocol logic and user interfaces, explicit on-chain settlement semantics, and the avoidance of opaque discretionary controls. The protocol’s emphasis on a Central Limit Order Book, rather than purely automated market maker dynamics, is intentional. CLOB-based markets provide explicit price discovery, clear bid-ask formation, and deterministic execution ordering, all of which align more closely with traditional market structure expectations in regulated environments. Margin logic, liquidation thresholds, and funding payments are rule-based and algorithmically enforced, reducing ambiguity around system behavior under stress. From an infrastructure standpoint, Parallelshots is designed to operate within compliance-aware deployment environments, enabling integrations with US-available wallet infrastructure, analytics tooling, and monitoring systems. While the protocol itself remains permissionless at the smart contract layer, it is compatible with jurisdictional access controls at the interface level where required. Following initial deployment and stabilization in the US market, the protocol is designed to support progressive global rollout through jurisdiction-specific front ends and parameterization, without requiring fundamental changes to the core protocol logic. This approach allows Parallelshots to scale internationally while preserving a single, coherent settlement and risk engine.