As Future Wonder continues to expand our technology expertise across both blockchain and traditional finance sectors, we’re always exploring new platforms to help clients make informed build-versus-buy decisions.
At last year’s FIA conference in Chicago, we connected with representatives from Aeron—an open-source messaging system gaining traction in financial technology. Aeron has already been adopted by capital markets firms worldwide, with dedicated support from Adaptive, a consultancy specializing in Aeron implementations.
Aeron addresses a core problem in financial systems: how to send and receive large volumes of time-sensitive data with extreme reliability and minimal latency. In markets where microseconds can make or break trades, traditional messaging layers often fall short. Aeron solves this by offering high-throughput, low-latency communication through features like hardware acceleration, shared memory transport, and lock-free algorithms. These optimizations reduce the unpredictable delays introduced by garbage collection and thread contention—issues that plague many general-purpose messaging tools.
Built on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), Aeron supports Java, Kotlin, and other JVM-based languages. This makes it a strong fit for integration into both traditional financial systems and off-chain blockchain infrastructure, including decentralized finance (DeFi) applications.
Our development team recently worked with Aeron as part of a small-scale market data demo. We found Aeron to be a highly technical and hands-on platform - one that demands a deeper understanding of concurrency, network configuration, and real-time systems to achieve the best results. It has a steep learning curve but is highly customizable, allowing teams to fine-tune the system for for a focus on low latency and / or high throughput.
Future Wonder remains committed to evaluating and adopting forward-thinking financial technologies. Platforms like Aeron have the potential to jumpstart new projects and enhance existing solutions for our clients—whether in capital markets, fintech, or blockchain infrastructure. Ready to accelerate your financial tech stack? Future Wonder helps teams build custom, high-performance systems using tools like Aeron. See how we can help →