Building an Exchange with Claude Code (1)

Having worked at a crypto exchange for about five years, I wanted to see whether I could build one with Claude Code.

It started as a bit of fun and then grew rather more than intended…

I can’t put it on AWS (the cost 😢).

I’m planning to wrap up after wiring it into AWS with Terraform + Kubernetes and leaving it there.

I even built bots — 12 of them on an M1 Pro 16GB MacBook, one fill every 2–3 seconds, order book refreshing every 10–15 seconds, and even at 100+ orders per second it runs without any lag.

We are truly in the age of AI now. Study, and always be building!