There's some big warning signs here.
Firstly, it's a decentralised exchange but the key part of the code won't be open source or explained? That's a fail straight away.
Secondly, I'm highly skeptical they have a bullet proof algorithm in place. It looks to me like they are just hoping to raise a ton of money and figure it all out later on - hardly fair on investors. Either that or it's a carbon copy of one of the existing DEX algorithms that are working out in the wild - e.g. Blocknet.
If you guys can't answer questions on how it works, you are not going to inspire shrewd investors to part with their money. Blocknet for example uses check lock time verify to lock up the funds used for the cross chain trading swaps until the transaction is complete. It has anti-ddos measures in place to prevent orderbook spam. People run the service nodes which handle the trading fees, masternodes cost 5000 Block and collect a proportion of the fees. And so on. How do the validators handle all of this?
I appreciate your questions again, if an investor doesn't understand the project he won't invest, you are right on this point. This is why i appreciate your questions because they will go directly to the FAQ.
First, the anti-ddos features are mandatory, nowadays you can't release something on a network without anti-ddos features.
Second, i just had a look at blocknet, it is not that i will say a bad thing about it, but i would look like to. Both projects are totally different, blocknet is a blockchain project, i understand now why you talk about algo. NVO isn't a blockchain, she uses the blockchains, maybe even blocknet can be used, because NVO is a software. Instead of comparing the validator to a blockchain, compare it to a decentralized escrow as by the end of the development, he will work on his own, without the intervention of the NVO team.
A video will be released soon with draws in order to explain the project.
I know their developer very well, i am a developer too, i help them, they are friends. They will use nodeJS mostly for the Validator, maybe some other languages too. Why NodeJS ? Because it is a dynamic language widely supported who have still a lot to deliver.
It is like asking the recipe of coca-cola. I can also tell you that your comparaison with an algorythm isn't exactly how the Validator works, as he will have a lot of other functions, the "algo" is just a segment of the whole machine as the validator will be able to work with multisig addresses in different ways for different purposes.
Once again, NVO isn't a blockchain. And you don't need tokens to use the decentralized exchange.
Thanks again.