NSE Aims for 100 Million Transactions/Second, 1000x Speed Boost

• National Stock Exchange (NSE) plans to reduce response time from microseconds to nanoseconds.
• This upgrade will enable handling approximately 100 million transactions per second, a 1000-fold increase.
• NSE Managing Director Ashish Kumar Chauhan warns of increased cyber security risks with higher speeds, urging stronger frameworks.
• Infrastructure expansion includes increasing co-location racks from 2000 to 4500 for faster order execution.
• NSE is also exploring AI for efficiency and expanding into new products like electricity and gold futures, including 10-gram gold futures.