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5/11/2026
Reactive Intent Markets: a working paper on the submission format atomic settlement makes possible

Reactive Intent Markets: a working paper on the submission format atomic settlement makes possible

Short summary

Atomic settlement removes the operational risk that forces participants to compress preferences into single price-quantity pairs. Reactive Intent Markets propose cryptographically-committed conditional intent functions revealing aggregate postures at clearing time. This captures higher-order information about market structure that conventional venues cannot observe.

  • Atomic settlement enables richer market participation mechanisms beyond single price-quantity compression
  • Participants submit conditional intent functions via cryptographic commitments, revealed only at clearing
  • Aggregate signed measures reveal market structure and collective beliefs that order books cannot

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