Injective (INJ) is a layer 1 blockchain built for decentralised finance, with trading tools built into the base network. Built with the Cosmos SDK, founded in 2018 by Eric Chen and Albert Chon, and live on mainnet since 2021, Injective offers a fully on chain order book, derivatives, spot trading and prediction markets that developers can plug into their own apps. It is fast, with sub second finality and very low fees, and it works across Ethereum, Solana and Cosmos networks. INJ is the native token, used to pay fees, to stake and to take part in governance, and a share of it is regularly burned through a community driven auction.