LayerZero has scheduled November 30 for the launch of its Zero mainnet and ATLAS trading infrastructure. Open ATLAS will debut with more than a dozen trading venues, giving partners access to a shared trading engine without requiring each to build an exchange.
This is based on an announcement from August, which pushed the launch into a later part of the year. The plan was for LayerZero to consolidate order matching, clearing, and settlement under a single trading platform.
What Will ATLAS Offer Trading Venues?
ATLAS works as a “headless exchange” based on its official documents. This protocol does not offer any trading application for consumers. In contrast, third-party venues have access, distribution, and trading interfaces.
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ATLAS’ infrastructure distinguishes three activities. Venues bring users to the trading platform, market creators create markets, and market makers create liquidity. The supported asset classes include spot assets, perpetuals, equities, commodities, bonds, and prediction markets.
Open ATLAS is designed for crypto use cases and developers who want to build financial products. They can connect the interface and trade with existing markets or launch new ones. According to LayerZero, this solution eliminates the need to create the entire trading backend.
Another version of the institution works with the same trading engine. Institutions can establish market rules; however, the first release in November starts with Open ATLAS.
How Will ZRO Trading Fees Be Distributed?
The token model links ZRO with security, payment of gas, and trading fee refunds. LayerZero states that venues can obtain larger rebates either via ZRO staking, volume trading, or both.
Open ATLAS uses one trading fee. Venues get refunds of 20% to 65%. The rest is allocated to market makers and ZRO tokens burned. Under the revealed fee structure, market makers will get 25% of fees remaining after venue refunds.
The remaining 75% will be used to buyback and burn ZRO tokens. All the figures relate to the fee remaining after the venue refund is made.
In case a fee equals $100 and the venue rebate is 20%, the remaining amount is $80. Of this amount, $20 goes to the market maker, and $60 is spent on purchasing ZRO tokens.
LayerZero has been running its own ZRO buyback program with the help of Stargate revenue. According to the June token update, the Stargate revenue has allowed purchasing since April 2026. ATLAS fees will be allocated according to the newly announced model.
What Speed Does the Zero Network Target?
Zero distinguishes between transaction execution and verification through the use of zero-knowledge proofs. While block producers make calculations, validators check proof-of-work. Zero splits transaction processing into two distinct environments known as zones.
ATLAS will operate in its own zone, segregating trading processes from payments and other use cases. The technical roadmap of LayerZero estimates that each zone can support two million transactions per second. This figure is more theoretical at this stage since it hasn’t been achieved yet.
According to the ATLAS documentation, there will be an estimated capacity of 200,000 transactions per second initially. The document states that the latency will be less than one millisecond in a public deployment environment.
How Does the Launch Fit Existing Partnerships?
LayerZero further offers cross-chain support for stablecoins. Anchorage Digital recently chose LayerZero’s Omnichain Fungible Token standard to facilitate the integration of stablecoins issued by banks on different chains.
Anchorage announced Tether’s USAT to be the first stablecoin issued on its platform with this interoperability capability. Its roadmap consists of transfers among Ethereum, compatible chains, and Solana. The bank collaboration is independent of the ATLAS trading launch in November.
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