About Noir Protocol
Noir Protocol is the matching engine for tokenized equities: a central limit orderbook with strict price-time priority and real onchain settlement.
For decades, the best risk-adjusted returns in finance have been locked behind geographic restrictions, accreditation requirements, and million-dollar minimums.
Trillions of dollars of stocks, ETFs and real-world assets are moving onchain, and landing in the wrong place.
What is the matching engine
The orderbook. Held in memory, matched at hardware speed, settled onchain.
An order is a message you sign, not a transaction you pay for. Your wallet signs it offchain, for free.
Market, side, price, size. Your wallet signs it offchain: no gas, no block, no cost.
What is a signed order
A signed order. Free to place, free to cancel, and it never touches a block until it fills.
An in-memory orderbook matches by price, then time. No auction to game, no privileged sequencer, no searcher paying to jump the queue.
Execution & Settlement
Noir runs a central limit orderbook with strict price-time priority.
Orderbook: every resting bid and ask, held in memory. Matching: price-time priority, at hardware speed. Settlement: matched batches moved onchain, T+0.
Best price first. First in line, first filled.
Security
Your funds never touch us. Collateral and tokenized shares sit in a contract onchain under one rule: nothing moves unless you signed for it.
The book, the sequencer and the settlement contract are public. Fairness you can audit is the only kind worth having.
Every order, in the exact sequence the engine saw it, written to a public log you can replay.
Security researchers can report vulnerabilities for rewards. Severity-based payouts for valid findings.
We custody nothing. Balances move only on a match you signed, straight to the settlement contract.
Global Markets
Every serious equity market on earth runs on the same machine: a matching engine, price-time priority, real settlement. Noir brings that machine to tokenized shares, from New York to Tokyo.
A bonding curve knows nothing about the asset it quotes. An orderbook does. Real limit orders, real stops, real price discovery, and a spread that does not leak to arbitrageurs the moment price moves.