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How Do Decentralized Derivatives Platforms Attempt to Enforce Fair Trading Practices?

They rely primarily on smart contract logic and economic incentives. Fairness is enforced by transparent, auditable code and mechanisms like batch auctions, which execute all orders at a single price to eliminate front-running.

They also use decentralized oracle networks to ensure fair, manipulation-resistant price feeds for settlement and liquidation.

What Is a “Private Smart Contract” and Why Is It Needed?
What Is a “Time-Weighted Average Price” (TWAP) Oracle?
What Mechanisms Other than a CLOB Are Used to Ensure Fair Pricing in Illiquid Markets?
Why Is Data Aggregation Crucial for the Price Feeds of Financial Derivatives?