I like the idea, but I'm still undecided.

How is the validator going to work exactly?  People want the safety of decentralized exchanges with the speed and functionality of a centralized exchange. How will the validator provide good service and order processing?  How will it deal with large volumes and high speed trading and APIs... I'm also assuming it will all be open source.  How will bugs/problems be dealt with?  Will there be a fund for compensating errors, etc?  How do you ensure errors and bugs are minimized?  Do either of you have any development experience building an exchange engine/software?  This is a hard project, I need some reassure this won't be another failed attempt at a DEX.