Announcing Relay's $17M Series B, led by @archetypevc & @usv.
And we're launching the Relay Chain — purpose-built infrastructure for instant crosschain settlement ⛓️
Any asset, any chain, instantly.
A user sends 100 USDC. 99.80 USDT arrives.
Nothing failed. Fees came out in flight, and two dollar-pegged assets never trade at exactly 1:1. In payments, that reads as broken.
Relay supports exactly 1:1 stablecoin payments. Two mechanisms, run together:
Complete visibility into your onchain payments with Requests v3
At real volume, the gap between what happened and what you can see is an operational problem. The Requests page in the Relay Dashboard now closes it: near real-time data on every request, filters you can compose
Onchain payments only feel instant if the liquidity is already there.
One unified USDC balance now backs settlement across every Gateway chain we route through. Less idle capital, more volume.
That's what payments-grade looks like ✨
Relay is using Circle Gateway to scale crosschain payments with less idle capital.
With a unified USDC balance across supported chains, @RelayProtocol can:
→ Replenish destination-chain liquidity on demand in under 500 milliseconds
→ Clear larger payments that previously could