We are introducing throttling on our WebSocket API for the following three orderbook topics:
All changes will be available in Testnet from 14 September 2023 at 04:00 UTC and in Production from 19 September 2023 at 04:00 UTC.
There is no change required on client side. The market data protocol used is backwards compatible but we recommend you to read the below blog post for more detail.
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