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What is Flare?

Flare is a layer-1 blockchain that is fully EVM-compatible — but with one unusual property: high-quality data is built directly into the protocol.

Most blockchains can only see their own internal state. They cannot, on their own, know the price of Bitcoin, the result of a sports match, or whether a payment landed on another chain. Flare's design goal is to fix exactly that: it ships enshrined data protocols — oracles that are part of the chain's own consensus rather than bolted on as third-party contracts.

The core protocols

• FTSO (Flare Time Series Oracle) — decentralised price and data feeds, refreshed about every 1.8 seconds (block-latency) and every 90 seconds (anchor feeds). More →
• FDC (Flare Data Connector) — attests external and cross-chain events, returning Merkle proofs a contract can verify. More →
• FAssets — trustless wrapped versions of assets from non-smart-contract chains (BTC, XRP, DOGE). More →
• Smart Accounts — let XRPL users act on Flare without holding FLR. More →
• Confidential Computing (FCC) — hardware-secured computation, in final development. More →

The essentials

• Consensus: Snowman++ (a leaderless, stake-weighted Avalanche-family protocol) with ~1.8s blocks and fast finality.
• Native token: FLR on Flare mainnet (chain ID 14). Wrapping FLR into WFLR unlocks delegation and rewards.
• Networks: Flare mainnet (14), Coston2 testnet (114), the Songbird canary network (19), and the Coston testnet (16).
• Governance: changes ship as Flare Improvement Proposals (FIPs) decided by token-holder vote.

Last reviewed June 2026