About Tier 1
What is Tier 1?
Tier 1 is a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain and perpetuals exchange purpose-built for deterministic, ultra-low-latency trading. It combines institutional-grade performance with open, transparent infrastructure.
Built from the ground up for high-frequency and professional traders, Tier 1 delivers sub-100 ms finality through colocation, optimized consensus, and deterministic execution across the entire stack. Every trade, every tick, every order is processed with precision and predictability.
Core Team
Our core team consists of engineers, traders, and technologists with deep experience in low-latency networks, exchange architecture, and blockchain infrastructure. We believe the future lies in DeFi, and much of our experience in centralized exchanges (CEXes) can be applied to on-chain solutions, enabling us to create a superior product.
Tier 1 is backed by a select group of 20+ seasoned investors and advisors from BSO, Deloitte, Morgan Stanley, Cisco, Hedera, and Tokinvest. This independence empowers us to prioritize long-term growth and sustainability, free from the pressures of short-term gains. We stand firmly with our community.
Why Tier 1?
Speed is only part of the equation. Determinism is the foundation.
Traditional blockchains rely on probabilistic finality, which introduces latency and uncertainty. Tier 1 replaces this with deterministic, real-time finality designed for trading workloads. By combining colocation-grade networking, BFT consensus, and low-latency data pathways, Tier 1 ensures that every transaction settles precisely as intended.
This architecture enables the next generation of decentralized trading: trustless, transparent, and institutionally performant.
Message from Steve Murray, CEO & Co-Founder
We built Tier 1 because the next era of trading demands both speed and certainty.
Traders want predictable execution. Institutions want transparent infrastructure. DeFi should deliver both.
Tier 1 is designed to achieve deterministic finality at the speed of global markets, without compromising decentralization.
The mission is simple: give everyone access to institutional-grade performance in an open, permissionless environment.
We are not building another DEX. We are redefining how trading infrastructure should perform on-chain.
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