# 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 --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.dfinance.co/master.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.