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Lending protocols have become one of the most important sectors in DeFi. They allow users to borrow against collateral while providing lenders with opportunities to earn yield. The entire system depends on one thing working reliably: liquidations.
Whenever collateral loses value, protocols need to liquidate positions quickly enough to prevent bad debt. If that process becomes slow or inefficient, the protocol may be forced to operate with more conservative risk parameters, reducing capital efficiency for everyone.
There is another issue that receives far less attention. Every liquidation opportunity creates Oracle Extractable Value (OEV), but under traditional oracle designs, most of that value is captured by MEV bots instead of the protocol itself. RedStone Atom was built to change that.
What Is RedStone?
RedStone is a modular blockchain oracle that provides reliable price feeds for decentralized applications. Its infrastructure supports a wide range of markets, including lending protocols, perpetual exchanges, liquid staking, tokenized real-world assets, and institutional onchain finance.
Rather than using a one-size-fits-all architecture, RedStone offers different oracle models designed for different protocol requirements. This flexibility has helped it become one of the leading oracle providers across the DeFi ecosystem while supporting both crypto-native assets and tokenized real-world assets.
The Problem
Most lending protocols rely on price feeds that update at predefined intervals or after prices move beyond certain deviation thresholds. This approach works under normal conditions, but it also creates inefficiencies during liquidations because protocols must wait for the next oracle update before positions can be liquidated.
Another consequence is Oracle Extractable Value (OEV). When an oracle update reflects a price movement that makes a position eligible for liquidation, MEV bots compete to execute it and capture the liquidation opportunity. In most cases, that value leaves the protocol instead of benefiting the protocol that created it. RedStone Atom was designed to solve both problems at the same time.
How RedStone Atom Works
RedStone Atom is built around a simple idea: Oracle Extractable Value (OEV) created during liquidations should benefit the protocol instead of being captured by MEV bots.
To achieve this, participants bid in an auction for the right to trigger the oracle update when a liquidation opportunity appears. The winning bidder executes the liquidation, while part of the value generated from that opportunity is redirected back to the protocol through OEV capture.
Because the oracle update and liquidation execution happen atomically within the same transaction, liquidations can use the latest available price data without waiting for a separate oracle update.
How RedStone Atom Benefits Protocols
One of the biggest advantages of RedStone Atom is that it helps protocols capture value that would normally leave the ecosystem.
Instead of allowing MEV bots to capture that value from oracle updates, protocols can redirect a portion of that value back into the protocol treasury. This creates an additional source of protocol revenue without changing the lending model itself.
At the same time, faster and more efficient liquidations can help reduce bad debt during periods of market volatility. Borrowers are liquidated using fresh price updates, while protocols can maintain healthier collateral positions and improve overall capital efficiency.
Easy Integration with Existing RedStone Feeds
Protocols that already use RedStone price feeds do not need to replace their oracle infrastructure to use Atom.
RedStone Atom is designed as an extension of the existing RedStone ecosystem, allowing supported protocols to integrate OEV capture without migrating to a completely different oracle provider. This makes adoption considerably simpler compared to rebuilding an entire oracle stack from scratch.
For protocols already relying on RedStone data feeds, Atom provides additional functionality while continuing to use the same trusted price infrastructure.
Comparison with Traditional Oracles
Traditional Oracles
Oracle updates -> Scheduled updatesOVE capture -> OEV captured by MEV botsLiquidation execution -> Separate oracle update and liquidationProtocol revenue -> No additional protocol revenueIntegration -> Legacy push feeds
RedStone Atom
Oracle updates -> Zero-latency updatesOVE capture -> Native OEV captureLiquidation execution -> Atomic liquidationsProtocol revenue -> Additional protocol revenue through OEV captureIntegration -> Built on existing RedStone feeds
My Opinion
The reason I like RedStone Atom is that it addresses a problem that has existed in DeFi lending for quite some time. Liquidations have always been necessary to keep lending markets healthy, but the value created during that process has usually gone to MEV bots rather than the protocols themselves. RedStone Atom changes that by giving protocols a way to capture that value instead.
I don't see RedStone Atom as something that completely changes how DeFi lending works. Instead, it improves a process that already exists. More efficient liquidations and an additional source of protocol revenue are both meaningful improvements, especially for lending protocols that want to become more efficient over time. RedStone Atom provides a solution to a real problem while creating clear benefits for the protocols that adopt it.
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