# 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](https://docs.frictionless.markets/developer/smart-contracts/smart-contract-docs) via our internal proprietary Frictionless Chain Service built over the massively scalable [Neo4J](https://neo4j.com/) and [graphQL](https://graphql.org/).

<figure><img src="https://257329724-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2Fn1p8Xj3fTDixdW6ELAVY%2Fuploads%2FRixGDsZEuYgNDtOrnx8l%2Ffrictionless-protocol-img-src-Frictionless-Chain-Service.drawio.png?alt=media&#x26;token=deaa560b-093e-435f-bec5-b74f5296cddb" alt=""><figcaption><p>High Level Architecture of Frictionless Protocol &#x26; APIs</p></figcaption></figure>