# Introduction

## What is dfinance

**dfinance** \[diːfaɪˈnæns] is a truly decentralized infrastructure dedicated to various financial and DeFi instruments and products designed for people.

Our infrastructure on the one hand adopts all the properties of a good blockchain: high transaction throughput with low latency, unconstrained scalability, granular security and quite well designed smart contracts engine. On the other hand it proposes a simple and solid set of instruments to engage all you knowledge in finances on the way to success of your project.

We proudly offer you to employ the **dfinance** infrastructure to publish your ideas and focus on your aim.

## Parts

* A **consensus mechanism** based on Tendermint PoS implemented by Cosmos, enabling a decentralization of block producers and ensuring a real trustless environment
* **PegZone** which enables an interoperability with 1st layer blockchains such as Ethereum, EOS, and Bitcoin and others, tapping into the liquidity captured by these blockchains coins and tokens.
* Libra's **Move language** and virtual machine to enable the creation of a powerful code execution environment on decentralized nodes with all the security offered by language's strict semantics, syntax and ownership model.
* **Decentralized oracles** providing connection between Dfinance platform and the real world financial instruments and sources of data.
* Powerful **high-level visual language** empowering a safe way to design, publish and run your own financial instruments, with no prior knowledge in programming required