Linera delivers real‑time performance to DeFi—powering on‑chain order books, lending markets and continuous payment systems. Traditional blockchains slow down during volatility, but Linera’s microchain architecture provides high throughput and predictable performance. Each DeFi protocol can launch its own scalable chain, isolating execution and avoiding congestion. CLOBs, AMMs and payment rails run in parallel with sub‑second finality and full composability. Linera offers low‑latency, horizontally scalable infrastructure for DeFi protocols needing speed, fairness and flexibility.