About Fantom

Fantom is a scalable blockchain project popular with Decentralized Finance (DeFi) users, enterprise applications, and EVM developers. Fantom's mainnet, Fantom Opera, is open-source and fully permissionless and uses an Asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerance (aBFT) consensus mechanism called Lachesis. This means the network's nodes reach consensus independently without having to exchange finalised blocks. For users, transactions are confirmed and finalised typically within a few seconds.