Case Study: Shift Markets achieves over 50% latency reduction and secures proprietary TCP traffic with Cloudflare Spectrum

Shift Markets Protects and Accelerates Custom TCP Traffic With Cloudflare Spectrum

Shift Markets is a white‑label provider of foreign exchange and cryptocurrency trading platforms that powers brokers and exchanges worldwide. Because its services depend on 24/7 connectivity, ultra‑low end‑to‑end latency and support for proprietary TCP protocols, Shift faced persistent connectivity and security challenges despite a sophisticated hybrid infrastructure and dedicated cross‑connects — and hosting its own global proxy network was costly and hard to maintain.

Shift routed its proprietary TCP traffic through Cloudflare Spectrum, gaining TLS 1.3 protection, DDoS mitigation and an integrated WAF with custom rules. The move immediately cut latency by over 50% in some regions (notably Kuwaiti mobile networks and rural Malaysia), encrypted and accelerated more than 5 TB/month of traffic, and delivered noticeably improved reliability and security for its trading systems.

Shift Markets

Anthony DiSanti

Chief Technology Officer