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Welcome to Pendulum
This is the documentation for Pendulum -- blockchain connecting fiat to the DeFi ecosystem. On this site, you'll find information on the project and network, as well as technical docs for developers, node operators, users, and other Pendulum communities.
Help us help you: As Pendulum evolves, this site will be updated. Sometimes we may miss something, so we invite everybody to participate with recommendations or updates to these docs. Submit a pull request or an issue if you see something missing.
What is Pendulum?
Pendulum Chain is a smart contract blockchain network connecting fiat rails to the decentralized finance ecosystem. By bridging robust and compliant fiat-pegged tokens from the most prominent blockchain networks into the vibrant DeFi ecosystems, Pendulum addresses the ever-growing demand for fiat liquidity in DeFi. Behind the development of the open Pendulum protocol is SatoshiPay, a company which has developed blockchain products since 2014.
Built on Substrate
Substrate is a blockchain framework developed by Parity Technologies. The framework was used to build Polkadot. The advantages of Substrate are many: in addition to having native compatibility with the Polkadot chain, Substrate has cross-coding language support, forkless upgrades with built-in upgrade coordination, deterministic finality (for fast consensus reaching), and a suite of pre-built but customizable components (“pallets”).
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