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Complete rewrite: institutional-grade triangular arbitrage engine#6

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Complete Ground-Up Rewrite

8,669 lines deleted. 2,445 lines written. Zero compromises.

This is a complete rewrite of the triangular arbitrage engine, built from scratch with institutional-grade engineering practices.

What Changed

Before After
700-line God class (Model) 6 focused modules with single responsibility
Floating-point money math Decimal arithmetic everywhere
Hardcoded token lists Graph-based triangle discovery
threading.Thread concurrency asyncio event loop
logs.txt file appending Structured JSON logging (structlog)
Python files as config Pydantic-validated YAML
Zero tests 24 unit tests, all passing
Zero linting ruff + mypy strict
29 dependencies (torch, sklearn, flask, stripe...) 5 dependencies
Monetization/subscription/license code Removed (not trading logic)

Architecture

triangular_arb/
├── types.py              # Immutable domain types (Decimal, frozen dataclasses)
├── config.py             # Pydantic-validated YAML config
├── engine.py             # Async event loop orchestrator
├── cli.py                # CLI with signal handling
├── exchange/
│   ├── adapter.py        # Abstract exchange interface (ABC)
│   └── binance.py        # Binance implementation with retry logic
├── strategy/
│   ├── discovery.py      # Graph-based triangle enumeration
│   └── evaluator.py      # Order-book-aware profit calculation
├── execution/
│   └── executor.py       # Atomic tri-leg execution with rollback
├── risk/
│   └── manager.py        # Circuit breakers, drawdown guards
└── utils/
    └── logging.py        # Structured JSON logging

Key Design Decisions

  • Decimal arithmetic everywhere — float has ~15 significant digits, enough to silently round away the 1-5bps margins this system operates on
  • Immutable domain types — frozen dataclasses prevent accidental mutation across async tasks
  • Exchange adapter pattern — ABC decouples strategy from exchange specifics, enables mock testing
  • Graph-based triangle discovery — auto-adapts to new listings, no hardcoded token lists
  • Risk manager as a gate — can only reject, never modify (auditable decisions)

Test Results

  • ✅ 24/24 tests passing (0.17s)
  • ✅ ruff lint clean (zero warnings)
  • ✅ GitHub Actions CI configured (Python 3.9, 3.12)

BREAKING: Full ground-up rewrite. Nothing from the old codebase survives.

Architecture:
- Immutable domain types with Decimal arithmetic (no floats for money)
- Exchange adapter pattern (ABC) with Binance implementation
- Graph-based triangle discovery (auto-adapts to new listings)
- Order-book-aware profit evaluation with 3-leg fee compounding
- Sequential tri-leg execution with best-effort rollback
- Risk manager with circuit breakers and drawdown guards
- Async event loop (asyncio, not threads)
- Structured JSON logging via structlog
- Pydantic-validated YAML config (fail-fast on invalid config)

Testing & CI:
- 24 unit tests covering discovery, evaluation, risk, and types
- ruff linting (zero warnings)
- mypy strict type checking
- GitHub Actions CI on Python 3.9+

Removed:
- 700-line God class (Model)
- Monetization/subscription/payment/license system
- ML predictor, dashboard, API server
- Hardcoded token lists
- Python files as config
- Text file logging
- Floating-point financial math
- Thread-based concurrency
- 29 unnecessary dependencies (torch, sklearn, flask, stripe, etc.)
@tennisleng tennisleng merged commit 9138438 into main Apr 11, 2026
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@tennisleng tennisleng deleted the jane-street-rewrite branch April 11, 2026 19:32
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