# Overview

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Release v2.0.0 of the Frictionless Markets APIs built on OpenAPI specification on confidential compute cluster to ISO-27001 and SOC-2 specifications are due for release on Jan 24th 2024 (24/1/24). 

Please check back with us or watch for announcements on our socials and [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/frictionlessmarkets).
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The Frictionless platform is built on a microservice pattern, deployed on Confidential Google [Kubernetes](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/confidential-gke-nodes) clusters for dedicated ISO-27001 secured environments, the stack is built to [OpenAPI](https://www.openapis.org/) standard and interacts with the Frictionless [smart contracts](/developer/smart-contracts/smart-contract-docs.md) via our internal proprietary Frictionless Chain Service built over the massively scalable [Neo4J](https://neo4j.com/) and [graphQL](https://graphql.org/).

<figure><img src="/files/XQ7ndj7pVu9rub9MJ9D0" alt=""><figcaption><p>High Level Architecture of Frictionless Protocol &#x26; APIs</p></figcaption></figure>


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