Chainlink, one of the world’s largest blockchain infrastructure providers, has acquired Atlas IP, a transaction ordering solution originally developed by research and development firm FastLane. While financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, Chainlink confirmed it has brought key Atlas team members into its organization as part of the acquisition.
Under the agreement, Atlas will now operate exclusively within the Chainlink ecosystem. Its previous deployment on RedStone, a competing oracle provider, will be phased out, according to a press release issued Thursday.
The acquisition strengthens Chainlink’s push to scale its so-called “non-toxic MEV” tooling, particularly through deeper integration of Atlas into Chainlink SVR. SVR is Chainlink’s data technology designed to help decentralized finance (DeFi) applications reclaim value that would otherwise be captured by opportunistic trading bots.
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Tackling a Persistent DeFi Challenge
Both Atlas and Chainlink SVR were built to address a narrow but costly issue in DeFi: toxic maximal extractable value (MEV) generated during liquidations. In decentralized lending markets, loans can be liquidated when they fall below required collateral levels. Automated bots typically race to execute these liquidations, buying discounted collateral and reselling it for near-risk-free profit.
While this process keeps lending protocols solvent, it often diverts value away from the platforms and their users. Atlas aims to change that dynamic.
The system provides DeFi applications with a private, auction-based way to manage transaction ordering during liquidation events. Instead of bots competing in open markets, protocols can auction off the right to handle liquidations. Bots then pay for the opportunity to execute transactions immediately after oracle price updates trigger liquidation conditions.
This approach allows protocols to retain a share of the value generated, rather than losing it entirely to external actors.
Building a Broader Value Recapture System
By combining Atlas’s order flow auction technology with Chainlink SVR, Chainlink believes it has created one of the most comprehensive value recapture systems in DeFi to date.
“Uniting Atlas’s proven order flow auction technology with Chainlink SVR creates the most effective value recapture system DeFi has ever had,” said Johann Eid, Chief Business Officer at Chainlink Labs.
He added that the integration is expected to boost revenue opportunities for DeFi protocols as SVR expands to additional blockchain networks.
According to Chainlink, SVR has already facilitated more than $460 million in liquidations and helped recapture roughly $10 million in non-toxic MEV for major lending platforms, including Aave and Compound. In these scenarios, the recovered value is sometimes referred to as Oracle Extractable Value (OEV), reflecting the role of oracle price updates in triggering liquidation events.
Expanding Across Chains
Chainlink’s OEV tooling is currently live on Arbitrum, Base, BNB Chain, Ethereum, and HyperEVM. The company expects the Atlas acquisition to accelerate its multi-chain rollout, bringing the system to more ecosystems and use cases over time.
Chainlink also said it will continue supporting Atlas’s ongoing development and future expansion under its stewardship, signaling a long-term commitment to refining transaction ordering and value capture mechanisms within DeFi.
