Perlin is a distributed ledger, hardening and generalizing the Avalanche consensus protocol: a partially-synchronous Byzantine fault-tolerant protocol built on a metastable mechanism over a directed-acyclic-graph (DAG) to achieve extremely high throughput and scalability.
Natively, Perlin is armed with a decentralized compute layer; supplying it with an engine that horizontally scales and processes all kinds of computational tasks you could imagine with extremely high throughput.