Research

Notes from the plumbing

What we learn while connecting to venues and measuring them, written down so the next team does not have to find it twice. No price predictions, no signals.

26 Oct 2026
4 min read

Clock skew and signed requests: why a venue rejects your perfectly valid order

Every signed request carries a timestamp, and every venue has an opinion about how far from its own clock that timestamp may be. The error messages rarely say "your clock is off". Here is what they say instead, and how to make the problem go away for good.