By Jacob Greene - FastLane Labs Atlas is a generalized execution abstraction protocol for building application-specific order flow auctions on the EVM. Because of its generality and flexibility, Atlas can be used for a number of execution abstraction use-cases such as backrun order flow auctions, OEV auctions, and intent auctions.

Blockchains are governed by cause and effect. Their state only changes when something acts upon them to change it. This cause is usually a transaction. This means if something changes and we want to represent that in a blockchains state, we’re going to need a transaction. For example a