Why this ex-Solana exec is using a Wall Street trick to level the playing field in DeFi

DoubleZero’s private fiber network aims to eliminate latency advantages like Hyperliquid’s Tokyo edge, but exchanges have yet to show an interest. What to know : DoubleZero is building infrastructure to bring stock exchange-type fairness to crypto by taking latency, the time it takes for an order to reach a trading platform, out of the system. The company, led by former Solana Foundation executive Austin Federa, argues that many DeFi venues, like Hyperliquid, are decentralized in governance but not truly distributed in infrastructure, allowing traders near key data centers to gain millisecond-level advantages. DoubleZero contends that predictable, verifiable latency — rather than raw speed — will become a competitive differentiator.