LayerZero to Launch Zero Mainnet and ATLAS Trading on Nov. 30

ATLAS functions as a backend engine for trading and settlement, deliberately omitting a consumer-facing interface. Instead, the platform relies on third-party venues to manage user distribution and front-end experiences. The architecture splits operations into three distinct roles: trading venues provide market access, market creators define product parameters, and market makers supply liquidity. The engine supports a broad range of assets, including spot markets, perpetual contracts, stocks, commodities, and bonds.

The project’s economic model incentivizes the ZRO token through a fee-sharing mechanism. After deducting venue rebates—which range from 20% to 65% depending on staking and volume—the remaining fees are split between market creators and ZRO buybacks. Specifically, 75% of the post-rebate revenue is designated for purchasing and burning ZRO, a strategy designed to support the token's ecosystem.

Underlying this trading system is the Zero blockchain, which utilizes zero-knowledge proofs to decouple transaction execution from verification. By organizing activity into concurrent environments known as Zones, LayerZero isolates the ATLAS trading workload from other network applications. While the company’s technical roadmap cites a long-term capacity of 2 million transactions per second per Zone, the initial rollout for ATLAS is provisioned for 200,000 transactions per second.