# The Swarm Network The Swarm Network is a group of persons (Members) joining to support the development of a digital infrastructure designed to foster the emerging digital securities economy. ## General Purpose The Swarm Network aims to build and maintain an open infrastructure for digital securities and a financial marketplace that is globally accessible, free and trustworthy for its participants. The Swarm Network supports base layer research, development and education to bring decentralized, open-source protocols and tools to the world of finance, empowering developers to produce next generation decentralized financial services applications. ## Specific Purposes To equitably balance the respective interests of all participants and, to this end, define and refine platform policies accordingly. To act as a decentralized governance body to manage the lawful development and maintenance of the platform compliant with its purposes. To build tools and infrastructure that support adherence to applicable laws and regulations with respect to the issuance of digital securities on the platform as well as trading such digital securities on third-party or decentralized exchanges. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.swarmnetwork.org/swarm-network/network-governance/the-swarm-network.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.