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10) Project Serum is a decentralized ecosystem built from the ground up to meet the world's needs. Serum is fast, and it's cheap, and powerful, and fully cross-chain compatible. And it's truly, fully trustless.
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11) Serum is built on the blockchain. Solana can process 10,000 times as much as Ethereum; and it's 1,000,000 times cheaper. And unlike many side chains, Solana is a fully fledged, decentralized blockchain with over 100 validators.
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12) This allows Serum to have full central order limit books, with the familiar market, limit, and IOC orders; processing multiple times per second; all while being fully on chain.
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13) This is then combined with a powerful cross-chain protocol allowing for trustless and efficient tokenization and swaps, meaning that while living natively on Solana, Serum is interoperable on Ethereum.
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14) Toss in some cool new stablecoin designs, tokenized products, a fast, secure risk engine, and a fully modern exchange and financial ecosystem can live entirely on the blockchain. Together these let Serum's users have the experience they're used to on a centralized exchange.
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16) Finally, there's SRM: the Serum token, a SPL (Solana based) token that powers Serum. 100% of net fees go to a burn of SRM, holders get discounts on fees, and SRM can be staked on nodes to help optimize the network's performance.
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