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title: What is Caduceus?
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createdAt: 2022-07-20T13:43:02.000Z
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Caduceus is the world's first blockchain dedicated to Metaverse development. In other words, Caduceus is a distributed ledger based platform with unique technology that makes deploying and running Metaverse applications much more efficient as compared to conventional blockchains.

## Key features & highlights[​](https://docs.polygon.technology/docs/home/polygon-basics/what-is-polygon#key-features--highlights)

**Scalability**: Fast, low-cost and secure transactions.

**Metaverse support:** Intrinsic support for 3D objects and vectors

**Security:** Fund security, NFT asset security, users' privacy security, trusted transactions, automatic settlement, token ecological
 incentives, and DAO user autonomy through a high-speed, scalable blockchain
network.


**Cloud Computing**: Caduceus provides decentralised cloud computing support for the metaverse
through a massive distributed network encompassing IPFS storage/GPU cloud rendering/SWAN


**Hardware innovations**: Caduceus provides the metaverse with a blossoming device ecology through the
advanced XR Glass open-source hardware solution, lowering the hardware
threshold and increasing device penetration.


Caduceus connects blockchain seamlessly through SDK, providing interfaces and
tools for NFT art creators and application developers of the metaverse.
Caduceus enhances user experience and lowers user threshold through a 3D OS UI
system, providing a user-friendly interaction portal for the metaverse.

**Edge Rendering**: Provide 3D designers, game developers, game users and Metaverse users with a powerful distributed rendering computing power - edge rendering system;
**Tooling**: Provide Metaverse UGC development tools, creation tools, game editing tools and user-defined editing tools for creative developers and users;
**Infrastructure**: Materials NFT market, scene NFT market and game props NFT market

## Under the hood

What does Caduceus look like under the hood? Here is a brief overview of the architecture and layout of services.

### Management Platform

a management platform for blockchain, including chain
management, block information retrieval, visual monitoring and other functions.
Smart Contract Development IDE: an online development environment for smart
contracts. All contract languages supported by the Caduceus Metaverse Protocol
can be developed, compiled, and debugged on this IDE.

### Command Line Tools

Caduceus Metaverse Protocol provides a wide range of tools
to facilitate user command line deployment and management operations on the
chain, such as certificate generation, chain configuration, rapid deployment.

### SDK

helps users communicate with the chain through RPC and complete
functions such as contract creation, invocation and chain management.
Gateway Node: also known as the Protocol Converter, used to handle the
communication protocol between external services and the blockchain, data
format or language differences.

### Verification Node

performs transaction preprocessing, verifies the signature and
legitimacy of the transaction, and converts the transaction into a read-write set.

### Consensus Node

participates in consensus voting, transaction execution, event
verification and accounting.
Sync Node: also called Witness Node, the job of this node is to synchronise and
verify blocks, execute transactions, and record complete ledger data; it does not
participate in consensus voting.

### Light Node: 

synchronises data from Consensus Nodes, verifies data validation,
filters and stores transactions belonging to the same organisation. It does not
have the function of receiving transaction requests or broadcasting transactions.

### Storage Node

Distributed file storage node. For some special business needs,
each file will be cut into 4K file fragments, and then stored in different nodes.
Storage Service: Caduceus Metaverse Protocol supports the storage of large files
such as videos, audio, pictures in the blockchain network.

[​](https://docs.polygon.technology/docs/home/polygon-basics/what-is-polygon#staking-operations)