Summary

1. Injective is a lightning fast interoperable layer one blockchain optimized for building the premier Web3 finance applications. Injective uniquely provides developers with powerful plug-and-play financial infrastructure primitives, such as a high performance on-chain decentralized exchange infrastructure, decentralized bridges, oracles, and a composable smart contract layer with CosmWasm.
2. Injective’s core exchange module provides state-of-the-art capabilities including an advanced on-chain order book and matching engine for spot, perpetual, futures and options markets, resistance to Miner-Extractable Value (MEV) through frequent batch auction order matching, and zero gas fees for users.
3. Injective is built with the Cosmos SDK and leverages a Tendermint-based Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism, which allows it to achieve instant transaction finality while sustaining lightning-fast speeds (25,000+ TPS).
4. Injective natively uses IBC and is highly-interoperable with multiple layer ones, including, but not limited to, Polkadot and Solana. It is also uniquely built to be interoperable with Ethereum, through its own decentralized ERC-20 token bridge, making Injective the first network within the Cosmos ecosystem to natively support Ethereum assets.
5. Smart contracts are implemented on Injective through CosmWasm, allowing for multi-chain smart contract transactions to occur seamlessly. Injective, however, is the only blockchain that enables automatic smart contract execution. This capability serves as a powerful building block for developers to create novel use cases that would not be possible on any other chain.
6. INJ is the native asset that powers Injective and its rapidly growing ecosystem. The INJ token is used across a diverse range of functions such as:
   • Protocol governance
   • dApp value capture
   • Tendermint-based Proof-of-Stake (PoS) security
   • Developer Incentives
   • Staking
   • 60% of all fees from dApps built on Injective are auctioned off every week via a buy back and burn mechanism, allowing the supply of INJ to dramatically decrease over time.
7. The Injective network enables developers to:
   • Build new highly interoperable cross-chain DeFi applications with fast transaction times and instant finality.
   • Access deep cross-chain liquidity and novel financial instruments, including decentralized perpetual swaps, expiry futures, binary options and prediction markets.
   • Launch applications with an automated smart contract implementation, which is singularly unique to Injective’s layer 1.
   • Permissionlessly create and list new markets on exchange dApps built on Injective.
   • Access various dApps built on top of Injective with zero gas fees.

2.1 What is Injective?

Injective is a blockchain built for finance. It is an open, interoperable layer-one blockchain powering next-generation DeFi applications, including decentralized spot and derivatives exchanges, prediction markets, lending protocols, and more.

Injective uniquely provides powerful core financial infrastructure primitives that applications can leverage, including a fully decentralized MEV-resistant on-chain orderbook. In addition, all forms of financial markets such as spot, perpetual, futures and options are fully on-chain. The decentralized cross-chain bridging infrastructure is compatible with Ethereum, IBC-enabled blockchains, and non EVM chains such as Solana.

Injective also provides a next-generation, highly interoperable smart contract platform based on CosmWasm, with advanced interchain capabilities. Injective is custom built with the Cosmos SDK and utilizes Tendermint-based Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism, providing instant transaction finality with the ability to sustain lightning-fast performance (25,000+ TPS).

The Injective ecosystem includes over 200 projects and over 700,000 community members globally.

Injective is backed by a group of prominent investors such as Binance, Pantera Capital, Jump Crypto and Mark Cuban.

2.2 What Makes Injective Special?

1. Injective is the only blockchain specialized for DeFi applications. It is the blockchain built for finance, and it is the first sector specific blockchain.