Overview

Welcome to the Marlin documentation portal!

What?

Marlin is an open collection of protocols and related libraries that provides high-performance network infrastructure for decentralized systems.

Why?

Speed

The Marlin network is able to achieve global latencies of <150ms. This enables developers to build high-performance responsive distributed systems (including blockchains and dapps).

Scale

The Marlin network can scale to a large number of nodes without compromising on performance. Developers are no longer limited by the fanout capabilities of a single node.

What can I build using Marlin?

Some examples of the things that you can build using Marlin include:

A blockchain/sidechain with low block times
A validator network with much shorter rounds or much larger validator sets
An efficient and performant order relay system for DEXes
A performant live streaming service
A scalable IoT data marketplace
A push notification system for dapps
A responsive multiplayer game