Injective is not a general-purpose blockchain. It’s application-specific
@injective was built with the Cosmos SDK, but customized from the ground up to serve a very specific purpose: decentralized finance not gaming, not NFTs, but high-speed, low-latency, front-running-resistant finance
This focus allows them to optimize the blockchain’s core parameters (block time, mempool, state syncs, etc.) to support orderbook-based trading, real-time price feeds, and derivative settlement, all without gas inefficiencies
This is not EVM trying to do DeFi
This is DeFi built at the protocol level
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The @injective Chain has a built-in decentralized exchange (DEX) module, not a smart contract.
Unlike Ethereum or even most Cosmos chains, where DEXs are apps deployed as smart contracts, Injective has a native exchange module at the chain level.
This DEX module supports:
Fully decentralized on-chain orderbook execution
Zero gas fees for trades (paid by relayers)
Order matching that’s front-running resistant
Perpetuals, spot markets, synthetic assets, etc.
Why is this a big deal?
Because latency and MEV become chain-level issues. Injective can eliminate entire classes of attacks (like sandwiching) that Ethereum DEXes suffer from because it controls the actual ordering logic at the chain layer
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