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# What is PERI Finance?

## Introduction

PERI Finance is a **Polkadot-based cross-chain** innovative **synthetic assets issuance and derivatives market protocol.**

Users can access a wide range of **both traditional financial and crypto assets** in the form of synthetic and leveraged products through PERI Finance, such as synthetic assets, perpetual future swaps, etc.

Through adding Layer 2 with the OVM(Optimistic Virtual Machine) solution, we provide users with **a lower GAS fee, speedy transactions, and robust security solutions** from front-running or flash loan.

Our goal to users is making an opportunity **to access a wide range of financial and crypto assets** with various synthetic products, removing any difficult verification procedure on connecting to the finance sector.

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Also, PERI Finance provides synthetic assets of high valued properties and assets through the **Metaverse** ecosystem. PERI DEX benefits users who want to take advantage of priceless assets on multi-Metaverse.