# Getting Started

**Shogun is the Integration Layer**: a high-performance intent-centric platform that consolidates disparate blockchains into one unified application layer. With potentially hundreds or even thousands of chains being deployed, Shogun is the easiest way to get on-chain for both end-users and developers without worrying about the nuances of each chain.

Shogun introduces optimizations that result in a platform that can facilitate communication across and within individual blockchains as if they were all one monolithic system through Heterogenous Counterparty Discovery.

Shogun's improvements address existing bottlenecks within on-chain trading while preserving seamless compatibility with existing liquidity venues such as CEXs, DEXs, and more. As a result, the rich landscape of DeFi can plug seamlessly into Shogun while benefiting from CEX-like exchange rates and maximum performance, with the transparency of on-chain execution and settlement. 

## **Our Stack** <a href="#solution" id="solution"></a>

Shogun's stack includes the following major layers:

* **Smart Order Routing (SOR)** - all on-chain liquidity venues aggregated into one API with full cross-chain support for quoting. This allows support from major assets all the way to the most obscure memecoins.
* **Off-chain Auctions** - solvers compete in Dutch auctions using their own liquidity, as well as CoW, JIT LP vaults, and other liquidity venues. This ensures best prices from a variety of sources.

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Would you like to integrate Interchain intents into your app? We have multiple ways for you to connect:

## SDK

The **Shogun SDK** enables integrations both on the frontend and backend, enabling robust UX/UI for interchain intents in combination with any primitive on-chain. Token support is the best option for protocols and more complex apps looking to integrate our services.

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