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# About Shield

### **What is Shield?** 

Shield is the crypto-native solution to on-chain derivatives. Shield is building a secure, stable, and open decentralized derivatives trading protocol.

### **What price feeds does Shield integrate?**

Shield integrates Chainlink, Uniswap, and Sushiswap as price feeds. The opening price is the index price. Contracts are directly interacted with dual-liquidity pools, thus replacing the complex on-chain matching calculation.