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When you buy crypto on a large exchange, your actual counterparty is the platform, not the person who sold those coins.

You place a buy order. The platform puts it in a huge queue, alongside thousands of other buy and sell orders, and looks for one that matches yours in price. Who sold? The platform won’t tell you, and nobody cares to know. It brings both sides together, holds the coins and the money while the transaction is processed, and delivers them at the end. Imagine you want to buy 10 $SOL : someone, somewhere, placed a sell order for that same amount at a price that works for you. The system matches the orders. Neither of you knows who the other is, and neither needs to, because the platform is responsible for both sides. You never spoke to a person. You spoke to a system.

This model, where the platform matches orders through a central order book and holds the funds in between, is called a centralized exchange. The kind that connects you directly with another person without touching your money is called a P2P, or peer-to-peer, exchange.

KEY CONCEPTS
- Not all exchanges handle your money the same way: some hold it while the transaction is underway, while others never touch it.
- Leaving your coins in an exchange for years is not the same as keeping them in an insured bank, because if the platform goes down, nobody will give your money back.
- Not all platforms have the same level of security or follow the same rules, so one platform’s reputation says nothing about whether it protects your funds well.

The platform that holds your money is the same one that can fail you, just like any bank you’ve known your whole life. The difference is that here, if it fails, there’s nobody behind it to give you a cent back.

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