# Execution security DerivaDEX is designed to provide execution security through several mechanisms: **Economic incentives:** operators must post a bond that can be revoked by the DAO for malicious behavior. **Trusted execution environments:** Each operator runs code that is deployed within a trusted execution environment (TEE). This technology provides assurances to users that the execution code approved by governance has NOT been tampered with. **Checkpointing + auditor:** The DerivaDEX auditor is a pythonic implementation of the exact logic run by the exchange. In the event that the auditor and exchange reach different state root hashes, governance can pursue blacklisting operators and pausing the exchange to investigate. Together, these attributes should provide traders with a radical level of transparency compared to centralized exchanges. Furthermore, the DerivaDEX governance process ensures that there are public pathways for protocol community to remediate emergent problems. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.derivadex.io/security/execution-security.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.