FastLane
A bidding protocol on Polygon to reduce transaction spam
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$382Buyback funds
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| Period | Protocol income | Buyback funds | Burn funds | Buyback ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2026 | $382 | -- | -- | -- |
| Oct 2026 | $4.22K | -- | -- | -- |
| Sep 2026 | $4.38K | -- | -- | -- |
| Aug 2026 | $4.49K | -- | -- | -- |
| Jul 2026 | $5.83K | -- | -- | -- |
| Jun 2026 | $6.28K | -- | -- | -- |
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About FastLane
FastLane builds MEV and liquid staking infrastructure for Monad. Its auction contracts, paired with a validator sidecar, sell the right to order transactions inside a validator's block to the highest-bidding searcher and return proceeds to the protocol; shMON is an ERC-4626 position representing staked MON, with yield from four streams: base staking issuance, auction revenue, liquidation revenue shared through Chainlink Smart Value Recapture, and an atomic unstaking fee of 0.005% to 1%. Atlas, its execution abstraction framework, uses a CallChainHash to lock the execution order of solver operations and lets apps, front ends and oracles run order flow auctions.
Within Monad it is both a block-building plugin for validators and a yield entry point for holders: searchers bid, validators package, and the protocol pays auction revenue to shMON holders by stake share. Unlike general MEV middleware it puts auction logic in contracts instead of a centralized relay. Its reach is tied to one chain, so validator adoption and on-chain activity set auction size, and copying the model elsewhere means winning validators again.
In March 2022, FastLane Labs was founded, with Alex Watts as co-founder and CEO.
In May 2023, FastLane Labs completed a $2.3M seed round led by Multicoin Capital, with participation from Polygon Ventures, Shima Capital, Delphi Ventures, and others.
In June 2023, FastLane launched its MEV protocol on Polygon.
In February 2025, FastLane published the shBundler technical design for Monad's account abstraction layer.
In March 2025, FastLane Labs raised $6M in funding led by Figment Capital and DBA, with Coinbase Ventures, Robot Ventures, HashKey Capital, and others participating.
In November 2025, FastLane launched the Mainnet Points Program for the Monad ecosystem.
In January 2026, FastLane released the FastLane MEV Protocol, a fully decentralized MEV auction for Monad validators.
In January 2026, Chainlink announced it acquired Atlas by FastLane, including its IP and key personnel; FastLane continues to operate independently as a strategic partner of Chainlink.
As of October 30, 2026, FastLane's website showed 113 out of 196 Monad validators routing blocks through FastLane.
On 22 January 2026 Chainlink acquired Atlas, FastLane's transaction ordering solution. The Atlas technology moved into Chainlink's cross-chain smart value recapture system while FastLane continued as an independent company. Chainlink said that system had processed over 460 million dollars of liquidations and recaptured more than 10 million dollars of extractable value, which pushed ordering logic refined on Monad into a much wider base of applications.
FastLane kept running three lines: MEV and ordering infrastructure for Monad, the shMON liquid staking token whose yield comes from native staking, MEV and execution layer income, and a trading front end called Moose.Trade launched in 2026. Moose pitches fully onchain aggregation, routing and splitting trades onchain with no server in between, plus one-click trading through session keys, sponsored gas and social copy trading; its contracts were still pending audit during beta.
Future strategy and roadmap: FastLane plans to close the loop between ordering, liquid staking and the trading venue so shMON yield derives directly from the flow it operates, and to expand application-specific ordering services for protocols that need deterministic execution.
Alex Watts — Co-founder; leads FastLane Labs, founded in 2022, building MEV and liquid-staking infrastructure for Monad.
Jordan Hagan — Co-founder & COO; two decades of entrepreneurial experience across transport, agriculture, cloud, and crypto.
Gerd Wittchen — Head of Blockchain.