Canopy Atomic: Built-In Cross-Chain Trading for Trustless Swaps and Instant Liquidity

Canopy Atomic is Canopy's built-in cross-chain trading system that delivers instant, trustless liquidity without bridges, intermediaries, or custom integrations. Built directly into Canopy, the system is designed for six-figure transactions with minimal slippage, trustless onboarding and offboarding in and out of the ecosystem, and instant access to integrated liquidity.

Canopy Atomic addresses a long-standing issue in cross-chain trading.  Cross-chain liquidity has historically forced teams to choose between fragmented tooling, bridge risk, or costly, bespoke integrations. Canopy Atomic provides diverse liquidity solutions out of the gate—packaging both an atomic onchain order book model with an atomic cross-chain AMM system, allowing users to seamlessly access liquidity under any circumstance.

Adam Liposky, CEO of Canopy, said:

“Most decentralized trading structures today aren’t built for both six-figure trades and flexible liquidity. Both AMMs and onchain order books solve different problems, and trying to build a swap system from the ground up typically resorts to the utilization of—often centralized—third parties. We wanted to solve for all of the above, and let users hit the ground running from day one. This brings us to Canopy Atomic, a frictionless, packaged solution for diverse, instantaneous liquidity, without bridges, integrations, or market impact, allowing users to move capital across chains cleanly anytime they want.”

Canopy Atomic lets users trade intuitively, either through natively-integrated orderbooks or AMMs. Canopy’s onchain order book model provides direct, peer-to-peer (P2P) cross-chain trading, designed for trustless onboarding into the Canopy ecosystem, and between major blockchains, such as Ethereum and Solana. It also supports the efficient execution of large transactions, with deeper effective liquidity, and minimized slippage. Instead of routing trades through liquidity pools, transactions are executed atomically between counterparties, ensuring they either settle fully across all involved chains, or do not settle at all. This eliminates counterparty risk and removes the need for custodial bridges, wrapped assets, or third-party integrations.

Alongside the onchain order book, Canopy’s cross-chain atomic AMM system provides an alternative liquidity toolkit. Like order books, Canopy’s AMM system also ensures trustless, bridgeless swapping, but instead, allows for liquidity at any price point or any moment, with prices dynamically shifting based on pool availability. While order books address efficiency in large trades, the AMM provides always-on liquidity and immediate execution when counterparties are unavailable. Together, the two natively-integrated models create a well-rounded, flexible liquidity stack that accounts for varying market conditions, without leaving the Canopy network.

Adam Liposky, CEO of Canopy, said:

“Our goal was to create something that institutions can use for onchain movement of large amounts of capital, and builders can use for guaranteed liquidity and expedited processing. Canopy Atomic is a complete, ready-to-use solution—projects don’t need to wire up liquidity, integrate bridges, or manage cross-chain complexity. That means ensuring a cross-chain setup that doesn’t rely on third parties—reducing risk for the user, and ultimately, dropping development time so that projects can get to market.”

Canopy Atomic ensures the complexity of cross-chain settlement is abstracted away entirely. Providing a packaged, natively integrated swap system gives traders diverse liquidity solutions tailored to their project and  circumstance. 

Canopy maintains its intuitive infrastructure with this release, prioritizing liquidity at any stage—natively, automatically, and trustlessly—with novel solutions built-in and accessible to users from day one.