Marlin presents an open protocol designed to furnish a high-performance programmable network infrastructure tailored for DeFi and Web 3.0. Within the Marlin network, nodes, known as Metanodes, operate the MarlinVM, which offers a virtual router interface empowering developers to deploy customized overlays and conduct edge computations. Significant overlays achievable through MarlinVM encompass: Low-latency block multicast for blockchain scalability Low-latency mempool synchronization benefiting arbitrageurs Mesh networks Anonymity networks like mixnets Device optimization and caching responses from API providers such as Infura and Alchemy The native utility token, POND, serves various purposes: Facilitating validator node operation on the network through staking Participating in and voting on governance proposals dictating network resource allocation Determining a cohort of network performance auditors and compensating users from an insurance fund in case of a Service Level Agreement (SLA) breach Marlin endeavors to fulfill the vision of a decentralized web, where blockchain-secured applications offer user experiences akin to those of Web 2.0 in terms of performance.