Secure Post-Quantum-Safe Trading Platform That Heals and Scales Itself.
Trade8 is the professional trading desk vertical of the Sentin8 platform - a complete proprietary trading suite: keyboard-class order entry, pre-trade risk gating, broker connectivity via FIX/OUCH, consolidated market data, OHLCV bars, and real-time P&L. Built for proprietary desks and introducing brokers with complete regulatory traceability.
Sentin8 and Trade8 redefine infrastructure independence by delivering massive scale directly onto bare-metal, private cloud, and all major public cloud environments - including AWS, GCP, and Azure. Engineered to bypass the complexity and overhead of Kubernetes or heavy service meshes, Sentin8 features native auto-scaling and self-healing capabilities built directly into its core with minimal to no external dependencies. It is purpose-built for ultra-low latency and maximum efficiency, proven in testing to power real-time services with a blistering throughput of 5,000,000 transactions per second (TPS). With Sentin8, you get cloud-native resilience and elite performance, stripped of the operational tax.
Architected for ultimate versatility, Sentin8 is being designed and tested to power infrastructure across the entire business spectrum, from Tier 1 global enterprises to fast-growing startups. Whether you are managing massive legacy workloads at the highest enterprise scale or launching a lean, high-velocity application from a garage, Sentin8 provides the exact same battle-tested reliability and performance to match your operational needs.
A note on our history. If you found your way here looking for PRIME -
authPrime,exchangePRIME, and family - you're in the right place. Those projects are this one: our open-source work is now rebranded to Sentin8 (this vertical is Trade8) to avoid confusion with other brand names and products. At the same time we left our self-hosted Apache SVN behind and moved everything to GitHub. The lineage goes back further than you might expect - here's a fun LinkedIn read from 2017, when the platform was still called PRIME and still lived on SVN: Advanced Hybrid Securities Exchange.
| Service | Domain | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Trade8:Desk | Trading Desk | Order entry (limit/market/baskets/flatten), session lifecycle, instrument/routing catalogs, short-sale locate pool |
| Trade8:Risk | Pre-Trade Risk | Buying power checks, limits enforcement, restrictions, trader states, loss ladder (day-loss thresholds → close-only/disable) |
| Trade8:Router | Broker Connectivity | FIX 4.2/4.4 + OUCH 3.1 sessions, routing to any broker, fee calculation, fill normalization |
| Trade8:Feed | Market Data | Vendor adapters, consolidated quotes/ladders/tape, SSE streaming, price alerts (declarative + tenant-authored) |
| Trade8:Bars | Historical Data | OHLCV bars (1s-1D), intraday candles, history windows, EOD finalization |
| Trade8:Pnl | Performance & Reconciliation | Day P&L: positions, realized/unrealized, fees, LFT, office roll-ups; overnight carry + reconciliation |
| Repository | Description |
|---|---|
trade8-etrader |
Professional trading keyboard (F-key chain), ladder/tape/charts, P&L board |
trade8-desk |
Desk management console |
trade8-admin |
Vertical admin console (RFW) |
Trade8 depends on these Sentin8 platform services for cross-cutting concerns:
| Platform Service | What Trade8 gets from it | Dependency direction |
|---|---|---|
| Sentin8:Auth | Identity, sign-in, credentials, tokens to clients | trade8 → Auth (verification + M2M identity) |
| Sentin8:BFF | Authorization decision engine (Shield RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC), proxying | trade8 ← BFF (user tokens proxied to services) |
| Sentin8:Bus | Durable event transport & audit store | trade8 → Bus (produce + consume domain events) |
| Sentin8:Cron | Scheduling (session times, purge, EOD, carry-outs) | trade8 → Cron (schedule registration) |
| Sentin8:Func | User-authored strategy execution | trade8 ← Func (proxy-back handlers for hooks) |
| Sentin8:Sys | Audit ingest + storage | trade8 → Sys (audit events) |
| Sentin8:Storage | Object storage / secret vault | trade8 → Storage (document PUT/GET) |
| Sentin8:Stat | Business metrics aggregation and telemetry | trade8 → Stat (event ingestion) |
| Exchange8 | Venue-side matching, auctions, clearing, regulatory feeds | trade8 → Exchange8 (sibling vertical integration) |
- Keyboard-class speed - F-key chain (buy/sell limit & market, cancel-all, flatten) with profile-synced muscle memory
- Fail-closed authorization - no Risk verdict means no acceptance; denies carry the itemized check trace into the blotter
- Instant supervision - closing-only/disable flips a trader within a second, without touching credentials
- One source of money - fill-derived, exactly-once P&L application; office rolls up from trader numbers by construction
- Full reconstruction - any day replays to identical numbers from journal + opening balances; every wire message preserved
Architecture & Design: trade8 and its underlying concepts were designed by Hamid Jahanzad.