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The WhiteBIT Market-Making Program provides dedicated infrastructure for professional liquidity providers: maker-fee rebates tiered by trading volume, colocation inside the matching-engine zone, and the trading capabilities a quoting engine relies on. This overview covers fit, capabilities, and program terms; the integration detail lives on the Market Maker integration guide.

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What the Market-Making Program provides

  • Maker-fee rebates — negative maker fees paid on filled maker orders, tiered by 30-day rolling volume with separate spot and futures tiers (trading fees).
  • Colocation — low-latency REST and WebSocket access from AWS infrastructure co-located with the matching engine (details).
  • Bulk and atomic quoting — place a full quote ladder in a single request and requote by client order identifier (integration guide).
  • Safety mechanisms — a per-market kill-switch for unattended operation and Self-Trade Prevention for two-sided quotes.
  • Strategy isolation — sub-accounts with independent balances and API keys, and fee-free transfers between the master account and sub-accounts.

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Who the Market-Making Program is for

  • Professional market makers — firms providing two-sided liquidity across spot and perpetual markets.
  • Proprietary trading firms — desks running latency-sensitive strategies that benefit from colocation.
  • Quantitative and algorithmic desks — teams operating automated quoting and hedging systems at scale.

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How it works

A market maker streams orderbook and balance data over WebSocket, places and requotes orders over REST, and protects the book with a per-market kill-switch. WebSocket order placement arrives September 2, 2026 (global platform only) as an alternative to the REST order endpoints. The program adds maker-fee rebates on top of the standard trading surface and, for latency-sensitive strategies, colocation inside the matching-engine zone. The Market Maker integration guide documents the quoting loop, the colocation endpoint subset, and the WebSocket channels end to end.

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Program terms

Maker-fee rebates are tiered by 30-day rolling volume, with separate breakpoints for spot and futures. Rates and volume breakpoints change over time and are not restated here — the current schedule is on the Market-Making Program page, the trading fees page, and the VIP program. The applicable tier and any additional terms — including colocation and the dedicated account manager — are confirmed individually during onboarding.

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How to get started

Contact institutional@whitebit.com with trading-volume history and target markets. The dedicated account manager provides colocation connection details — AWS region, availability zone, and connection endpoints — during onboarding. Then build against the Market Maker integration guide.

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What’s next

Integration

The quoting loop, colocation endpoint subset, kill-switch, and WebSocket channels.

FAQ

Eligibility, program terms, colocation, and safety mechanisms.

Colocation

Low-latency infrastructure co-located with the matching engine.