Clober

Open your wallet, choose a market, and place an order that lives directly on-chain. Getting started is straightforward: connect a compatible EVM wallet, approve the token you plan to trade, and pick a pair. Set a limit price, quantity, and optional preferences like maker-only behavior to avoid taking fees. Submit the transaction and watch your order appear in the live book after confirmation. Partial fills settle immediately to your wallet, and you can cancel or adjust positions with another on-chain call. If you plan to trade actively, batch your changes to cut gas, use a fast RPC endpoint, and keep an eye on network congestion so you don’t miss your level.

If you provide liquidity, treat the book like a programmable venue. Place a ladder of resting bids and asks around the mid, tighten or widen spreads during volatility, and rotate inventory without moving assets off-chain. Maker orders can earn fees from takers while you shape price discovery on pairs that lack reliable AMM depth. Use post-only settings to avoid crossing the spread, stagger expirations so stale quotes don’t linger, and pre-fund gas to update quotes quickly when the market moves. When conditions shift, cancel in bulk and re-seed levels at new prices. Advanced users can mirror levels across correlated markets or maintain a grid to capture mean-reversion flow.

Builders can automate all of this with direct contract calls. Load the ABIs, encode place/cancel operations, and subscribe to order and trade events to drive your strategy. Keep a local book view by indexing events, validate state against contract calls when needed, and handle reorgs by reconciling receipts. Use a private transaction relay to reduce MEV exposure on large updates, and simulate transactions against a forked chain before pushing live. For systematic strategies, implement risk checks (max notional, max open orders), enforce price bands, and throttle updates to control gas. You can also integrate with off-chain signals: when your model fires, submit a batch that places, replaces, and cancels in one go.

Day-to-day operations are simple but disciplined. Periodically review approvals and revoke unused permissions. Track PnL by exporting fills and fees, then reconcile with wallet movements. To test new workflows, deploy on a testnet replica with the same interfaces. When launching a new market, coordinate with peers to seed both sides of the book so users get reliable execution from day one. For teams managing treasuries, schedule time-weighted orders during low-gas windows, cap slippage with firm limit prices, and use multi-sig flows to keep custody secure. Over time, build playbooks: how to open, scale, and exit positions; how to rotate liquidity between pairs; and how to recover quickly during network spikes or unexpected price moves.