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What type of software is godzilla.dev?

godzilla.dev is software that helps you build and run crypto trading bots, freely available at https://github.com/godzilla-foundation/godzilla-community under the open source Apache 2.0 license.

Is godzilla.dev a protocol or an exchange?

No, godzilla.dev is open source client software that you install on a local machine that interacts with exchanges and protocols.

With many connectors and strategies being added all the time, godzilla.dev is a constantly evolving publicly available codebase with frequent external contributors seeking to merge their changes into the master branch, which is released once a month and widely used by tens of thousands of individual and professional bot-runners globally.

How do people use godzilla.dev?

You can use godzilla.dev to build any type of automated crypto trading bot, with the most common bot types being market making and arbitrage bots. Market making bots provide liquidity to a trading pair on an exchange, while arbitrage bots exploit price differences between trading pairs on different exchanges.

Typically, users install from the source on AWS or another cloud provider. Afterwards, they can add their API key or private keys to it, which allows them to configure and run one of godzilla.dev's pre-built strategies on many different exchanges.

Since godzilla.dev is an open, modular codebase, many developers and professional firms fork the codebase and use it for their own purposes.

Why is godzilla.dev open source?

1. Trust and transparency: Market makers need to keep their API keys, private keys, and strategy configuration private and secure, so which is why godzilla.dev is a local software client, not a web-based platform. In addition, godzilla.dev's open source codebase enables anyone to inspect and audit the code.

2. Community maintenance: godzilla.dev's value proposition is that it connects to many different centralized and decentralized exchanges, along with pre-built strategy templates that enable users to run many different types of trading strategies. In order to scale the number of connectors and strategies, godzilla.dev relies upon its open source community.

3. Democratizing HFT: From the beginning, our mission has been to democratize high-frequency trading with open source software.

What is market making?

Market making is the act of simultaneously creating buy and sell orders for an asset in a market. By doing so, a market maker acts as a liquidity provider, facilitating other market participants to trade by giving them the ability to fill the market maker's orders. Traditionally, market-making industry has been dominated by highly technical quantitative hedge funds and trading firms that have the infrastructure and intelligence to deploy sophisticated algorithms at scale.

Market makers play an important role in providing liquidity to financial markets, especially in the highly fragmented cryptocurrency industry. While large professional market makers fight over the most actively traded pairs on the highest volume exchanges, there exists a massive long tail of smaller markets who also need liquidity: tokens outside the top 10, smaller exchanges, decentralized exchanges, and new blockchains.

What does it cost for me to run godzilla.dev?

godzilla.dev is a free software, so you can download, install, and run it for free.