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What is Atomic?

Atomic is a deposit-free leveraged trading platform on Arbitrum. Your wallet balance is the margin. No vault, no custody, no approval ceremony before you can place a trade.

● Last updated May 08, 20264 min read

Overview

Atomic is a deposit-free leveraged trading platform on Arbitrum. You don't move collateral into a vault before trading; the wallet you connect is the wallet that pays.

Orders are routed through DEX aggregators (KyberSwap and 0x) and filled across the Arbitrum DEXes those aggregators index.

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tl;dr

Connect wallet, sign one transaction, position is live. Atomic never holds your funds.

How Atomic differs

Most on-chain perpetuals look decentralised but behave like a centralised exchange: you deposit into a vault, the vault keeps an internal ledger of who owns what, and you trust it to pay out when you ask. Atomic doesn't do that - the trade itself settles on-chain at the moment you sign.

A few things follow from that:

  • Pricing without an oracle. Marks come from on-chain DEX liquidity. No external feed to be paused or manipulated.
  • Yield from real activity. Lenders are paid from actual trading fees, not token emissions. See Yield mechanics.
  • Lower fees. 20 bps round trip. Most perpetuals run 50–100 bps. See Fees & funding.
  • More room before liquidation. A position is closed when 88% of margin has been lost. On Hyperliquid that line is around 60%. See Liquidations.

Track record

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Live since 2022

Atomic has been running since 2022 with 99%+ uptime and no critical security incidents. Contracts have been audited by Halborn.

Open your first position

Connect a wallet, pick a market, set margin and leverage, sign once. The position is live in the next block. Step-by-step instructions: Quickstart.

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We will never ask

Atomic will not message you asking to send funds, install a browser extension from anywhere outside the official site, or sign a verification message. If something asks, it isn't us.