LayerZero Unveils ATLAS Exchange Infrastructure for High-Speed Global Markets

LayerZero has introduced ATLAS, a high-speed exchange backend designed to handle matching, clearing, settlement, and risk within a single stack for crypto-native and institutional markets. Built on LayerZero's Zero blockchain, ATLAS is a headless exchange with no consumer-facing trading app of its own. Exchanges and trading platforms connect their interfaces to the underlying infrastructure while retaining control over distribution and user experience.

ATLAS is provisioned for 200,000 transactions per second and recorded median latency below one millisecond in an environment designed to mirror public deployment. LayerZero measured median latency at 965 microseconds, with p95 and p99 latency at 1.418 milliseconds and 2.641 milliseconds respectively.

Open ATLAS will support crypto-native trading applications covering spot markets, perpetuals, prediction markets, and other permissionless products. Initial partners include GTE, Bullish, Defined, and TrueNorth, with GTE preparing to provide ATLAS trading access from launch.