# Welcome

**What blockchain rails and infra stack can support the bulk of global trading volumes?**

Fermi Labs was born to find the most optimized, performant, answer to this question. From the ground up, we've designed a custom blockchain stack - with one, invariant constraint:

> The market microstructure of onchain orderbooks must match offchain orderbooks.

Previous blockchains all make severe compromises on this front, leading to orderbooks which are **strictly worse** than offchain counterparts. We don't expect to onboard the world by offering an inferior product. Instead, Continuum ChaIn offers feature-parity with NASDAQ/NYSE, while offering blockchain guarantees of trustlessness, immutability, and verifiability.

Welcome to the verifiable finance revolution.

### Jump in:

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