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Atlas Documentation

Atlas is the blockchain for verifiable finance—a financial world where transparency, security, and performance coexist.

Leveraging a custom, hyper-efficient implementation of the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM), Atlas serves financial applications that require the performance of traditional finance with the transparency of DeFi.

Why Atlas?

Atlas is built specifically for financial applications that require reliable transaction delivery, near-zero transaction costs, speed-of-light pre-confirmations, frequent and reliable oracle updates, and honest sequencing. We’ve made opinionated decisions that a neutral, general-purpose blockchain can’t.

Example Use Cases

Some applications we expect to perform better on Atlas than on any other blockchain include:

  • On-chain orderbooks
  • Margin systems
  • High frequency trading

Solana / SVM Compatibility

Atlas is built on a custom implementation of the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM).

You can use the same developer tools you’d use with Solana to build on Atlas. Existing Solana programs can be deployed out-of-the-box to take advantage of Atlas’ high performance, low fees, and low jitter.

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When complete, Atlas will be a Layer 2 blockchain that settles to Ethereum mainnet.

Advanced Architecture

Atlas introduces subtle yet powerful architectural differences, some of which include:

Rapid State Merklization

High throughput enabled by full state merklization every slot, with a 50ms slot interval

Next-Gen RPC

A redesigned RPC implementation that is modular, horizontally-scalable, and backwards-compatible

Isolated Execution

A VM executor that supports purely functional transaction execution

Request Access

The Atlas private testnet is available today – you may request access here.

We are specifically interested in speaking with experienced DeFi developers who want to build financial applications they can’t build on existing general-purpose blockchains.

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A public testnet will be available later this year, followed by mainnet in Q2 2025.