7.1 Why We Have to Build ValueChain

As we began designing SoDex, we quickly hit a wall.Even the most advanced existing blockchain infrastructures were not built for the demands of high-frequency, low-latency, and fully on-chain trading at a global scale. Especially not with the levels of security, modularity, and composability SoDex requires.SoDex needs:

• Infrastructure capable of supporting Nasdaq-grade throughput for order book transactions

• Settlement layer that could handle Visa-level transaction concurrency for end users

• Native support for onchain order books and modular execution environments

• Seamless composability with EVM-based smart contracts and future DeFi primitives

• Decentralization, transparency, and accessibility

No existing chain could deliver all of that. So we build one and call it ValueChain.