Hyperliquid Dead Man’s Switch: Designing Safe Automatic Order Cancellation
Exchange-side scheduled cancellation protects quotes when a process or network dies.
Hyperliquid Dead Man’s Switch: Designing Safe Automatic Order Cancellation
Exchange-side scheduled cancellation protects quotes when a process or network dies.
Model the failure correctly
Choose a deadline above normal refresh jitter but below maximum acceptable stale-quote exposure.
Collect evidence
Refresh from an independent supervisor only while market data, account state, signing, and reconciliation are healthy.
Build the control path
Coordinate timestamps and nonces through the same ownership policy used by other signed actions.
Handle edge cases
If cancellation triggers, reload open orders, fills, inventory, margin, and the order book before quoting again.
Recovery procedure
Use a new strategy generation so delayed acknowledgements cannot revive an obsolete quote set.
Production metrics
Combine scheduled cancellation with inventory limits, deviation checks, local kill switches, and alerts.
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