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Key Responsibilities

1. Liquidity Management
   • Oversees native token liquidity from all blockchains.
   • Manages staking and rewards for liquidity providers.
2. Validator Operations
   • Ensures validator functionality, slashing mechanisms, and network security.
3. Fee Collection and Distribution
   • Collects transaction fees and redistributes them efficiently within the network.
4. Universal Cross-Chain Liquidity Access
   • Offers developers access to liquidity across chains for seamless integration and operation.

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Main Modules

1. Narada
   • Connects clients to the Hermes Layer.
   • Monitors blockchain events (e.g., token swaps between chains) and relays them to the Hermes Layer in a compatible format.
2. Threshold Signature Scheme (TSS)
   • Secures liquidity held in the Hermes Layer.
   • Supports various signature mechanisms, including ECDSA, RSA, and ed25519.
3. Fortunas
   • Vaults holding liquidity of multiple tokens.
   • Ensures liquidity release through validator signatures (⅔ quorum).
4. Sors
   • Handles small token swap amounts efficiently, mitigating delays in TSS processes.

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Endpoint Resources

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Testnet