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A venue adapter makes assumptions explicit

Axient is venue-agnostic at the accounting layer, not venue-indifferent. A venue adapter translates the particular market’s order, balance, execution, settlement, and finality behavior into a bounded interface used by the reference design.

Adapter responsibilities

  • Describe the market’s payoff and outcome-asset relationship.
  • Normalize executable order and balance information.
  • Identify execution and settlement events.
  • Report finality and payout information from the venue.
  • State capability limits and reject unsupported transitions.

Capability before action

An adapter must not imply custody, settlement certainty, or executable liquidity beyond what the connected venue can actually provide. If a required capability is absent or uncertain, the related action is restricted rather than approximated as successful.