# nautilus-core
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Core foundational types and utilities for [NautilusTrader](https://nautilustrader.io).
The `nautilus-core` crate is designed to be lightweight, efficient, and to provide zero-cost abstractions
wherever possible. It supplies the essential building blocks used across the NautilusTrader
ecosystem, including:
- Time handling and atomic clock functionality.
- UUID generation and management.
- Mathematical functions and interpolation utilities.
- Correctness validation functions.
- Serialization traits and helpers.
- Cross-platform environment utilities.
- Abstractions over common collections.
## NautilusTrader
[NautilusTrader](https://nautilustrader.io) is an open-source, production-grade, Rust-native
engine for multi-asset, multi-venue trading systems.
The system spans research, deterministic simulation, and live execution within a single
event-driven architecture, providing research-to-live semantic parity.
## Feature flags
This crate provides feature flags to control source code inclusion during compilation:
- `ffi`: Enables the C foreign function interface (FFI) from [cbindgen](https://github.com/mozilla/cbindgen).
- `python`: Enables Python bindings from [PyO3](https://pyo3.rs).
- `extension-module`: Builds as a Python extension module.
## Documentation
See [the docs](https://docs.rs/nautilus-core) for more detailed usage.
## License
The source code for NautilusTrader is available on GitHub under the [GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.en.html).
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For more information, visit <https://nautilustrader.io>.
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