Sidepit, a fintech startup from Berkeley, California, has just secured pre-seed funding. This investment will help the company develop a game-changing trading platform. The star of the show is Sidepit's patented Decentralized Limit Order Book (DLOB) technology. This clever tool aims to make trading fairer. It'll stop hidden market manipulation, which is a problem in both centralized and decentralized exchanges.

The funding came from investors around the world, after Sidepit presented their idea at conferences in San Francisco, New York, and Nashville. Jay Berg, the company's founder and CEO, is no stranger to finance. He's worked at big names like Bloomberg and Fortress Investment Group. He's also seen the dark side of trading, like the increasing manipulation in electronic trading. That's why he came up with the DLOB.

The DLOB is like a shield against problems in trading. It stops things like flash crashes caused by high-frequency trading (HFT) bots in centralized exchanges. It also blocks "front-running" in blockchain exchanges, which is when someone gets an unfair advantage. With this technology, Sidepit wants to make trading safer and fairer for everyone, from small traders to big institutions.

"We're excited to bring our vision to life," said Berg. "This is just the start. We want to give all traders a fair chance." Sidepit was founded in 2023 and is based in Berkeley. They're on a mission to fix trading, one fair deal at a time.