The Marlin Protocol is a cryptocurrency project that focuses on accelerating decentralized communication. It offers a trustless environment for developing powerful applications by accessing and processing data verifiably, deploying, generating Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs), and offering off-chain execution using GPUs and Trusted Execution Environments (such as Intel SGX, AMD SEV, or cloud services) for computational integrity, data confidentiality, failure recovery, auto-scaling, and more.
Marlin also provides a ZK-proof marketplace called Kalypso, which allows users to leverage zero-knowledge proofs without specialized hardware, providing liveness, censorship resistance, and resource efficiency. In addition, they have a distributed event-driven caching system called Web3 Cache.
Marlin is permissionless, with validators on the network providing computational resources for ZK proofs and running decentralized backends, creating an ecosystem of applications leveraging its infrastructure.
POND is the native utility token of the Marlin Protocol. It functions as an incentive token, can be staked on the platform, and gives holders the power to participate in Marlin’s decentralized governance mechanism.
