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# Who We Are
Sidepit builds fair electronic markets for human and machine traders.
Founder Jay Berg brought more than two decades of Wall Street market-structure experience to a simple problem: electronic exchanges turned physical proximity and infrastructure speed into a source of priority. Sidepit changes the rule that rewards that race.
Its patented Distributed Limit Order Book runs **DLOB — one-second deterministic auctions**. Within a shared second, participants compete on price rather than arrival measured in microseconds.
The production ProofNet exchange extends that market structure with a Bitcoin-native account model. A Bitcoin address is the account, an owner can authorize a narrow trading identity for an AI agent, and every owner unlock returns to the same address.
The investor thesis is straightforward: agents are becoming market participants, but inference speed cannot win a latency race against colocated infrastructure. Sidepit gives them a venue where better pricing and risk logic can matter instead. The same property benefits every trader without privileged physical access.
We are building the exchange, public protocol, reference clients, and operational evidence needed to make that claim inspectable rather than aspirational.
One fair second. No race. No head start.
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