# What is Native

Native is a Non-custodial, Autonomous Trading Infrastructure for Value Exchange.

It is the first vertically integrated liquidity stack that **decouples pricing logic from asset settlement**: a sovereign, on-chain matching engine provides high-performance price discovery and order matching, while permissionless vaults host assets for settlement across different chains.

The result is institutional-grade liquidity that is **permissionless, non-custodial, and fully transparent** — seamlessly integrated to any chain and any distribution surface, from wallets and aggregators to professional market makers.

## Why Native

The industry has spent years trying to force high-performance trading into general-purpose environments, leaving traders stuck with opaque off-chain pricing engines, high-latency RFQ models, or MEV-exploited AMMs.

Native is built to close that gap: an on-chain price discovery and execution system with the performance of a centralized exchange and the transparency of a public network.

## What We Are Building

<table data-card-size="large" data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a href="/pages/8ycDnVVORtFBxJpjWBlQ"><strong>Native Core</strong></a></td><td>The on-chain sovereign state machine, where pricing logic and order matching are finalised.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/pages/OWwNcyGsVOmjcKUYUijv"><strong>Native Pool</strong></a></td><td>The smart-contract vaults across various chains that host LP assets and enforce settlement.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/pages/E9UHsV1HPRqK9BGWasJ0"><strong>Native Pro</strong></a></td><td>The integration module that provides direct access to Native Core via exchange-grade interfaces.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/pages/MazeHqXasuUDUyy1duuu"><strong>Native Relay</strong></a></td><td>The trade integrator SDK/API that streams Native Core prices and routes trades from wallets, aggregators, and solvers into Native.</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>


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