It will be the first full-feature DeFi (Decentralized Finance) platform to be launched outside of Ethereum, and the very first to be launched on an aBFT consensus.
The benefits of Fantoms aBFT consensus are:
near-instant finality
high transaction throughput
high security
on a leaderless smart-contract platform.
If you want to see the world's fastest consensus in action please take a look at Fantom Rocks: https://fantom.rocks/hub/