Introducing Relay ⏩
Instant, low-cost bridging and cross-chain execution, on all your favorite chains.
⚡ Fast: median 6 seconds from origin to destination
💰 Cheap: 3.5x less gas than Across
🌐 Lightweight: simple to use on any chain
Try it today:
🏴☠️ To support our friends
@Arbitrum
and
@ProofOfPlay
, we're raffling 3 OG
@PirateNation
Founder's Pirates!
To qualify:
A. Follow
@RelayProtocol
& retweet this post
OR
B. Relay to Arbitrum Nova
You have 72 hrs, GOOD LUCK🤞🏾
Are you ready for Layer 3? ⛵
Relay now supports
@ProofOfPlay
's Apex chain, the new
@arbitrum
Orbit L3 for
@PirateNation
It’s time to explore new chains
Any supported chain → Apex in 6 seconds
Gasless USDC payments now on Relay
Bridge, send, or pay with USDC on or any Relay powered experience!
Live on
@arbitrum
,
@optimism
,
@base
, and Ethereum (more chains soon).
And it's all gas free. How it works 👇
We are excited to support Fantasy by streamlining their deposits
With Relay, players can bridge funds from their preferred chain to
@blast_l2
in just a few seconds
The future of onchain consumer applications is here
Fantasy x
@RelayProtocol
We're thrilled to announce that over $700K was deposited into Fantasy wallets ✨
A big thanks to our partners at Relay for making this possible.
Depositing into Fantasy unlocks significant benefits:
⚡️ Stay ahead of the competition during the
This slick UX from
@basepaint_xyz
is exactly why we built Relay.
Just minted Day
#299
(token on
@base
) with ETH on
@arbitrum
and its took 4 seconds.
We're here to make your money spendable so you can support great projects across chains
Today we are celebrating Superchain!
You can now mint BasePaint artwork directly from
@ourZORA
,
@arbitrum
,
@Optimism
, and mainnet!
The NFTs will be sent to your wallet on
@base
automatically, you don't need to bridge anything.
Relay has officially been alive for 1 week! And things are heating up 🧑🚒
In the last 7 days:
• 124K+ relays
• 500 Eth in volume
• 83K unique users
• New integrations by
@mintify
,
@Highlight_xyz
, and
@VrbsDAO
We’ve got some cool new features coming next week. Keep your 👀🍌
Introducing - Canonical + ✨
Use canonical bridges directly through the Relay App/SDK
Why “plus”? Because we’ve simply made it better.
The security of canonical bridges, but with a much improved UX: one tx withdrawals that actually end up in your wallet.
Learn how 👇🏾
Last week we launched gasless USDC support on Relay.
Today, on Relay, we push you to pay gas when you have it. Why? Because it's actually cheaper for you.
One of the Relay "architects"
@Deor
explains it best.
But basically relaying USDC is even cheaper now. Happy days.
Did you know "gasless" ERC20 transfers actually cost more gas than regular transfers?
"There's no such thing as a free lunch!"
ERC-2612 nearly doubles the cost of gas in a traditional ERC20 transfer, but - is still 16% cheaper than approve & transferFrom
learn more:
1/ 🔴🪨 Start your engines, because Redstone Mainnet is officially live! After a month-long Race to Mainnet, and almost a year of development, we are opening up our home for onchain worlds to game lovers and boundary-pushers across the Ethereum ecosystem.
Congrats to
@Ancient8_gg
on launching their Mainnet!
Relay is here to support bridging to and from Ancient8 in 10 seconds or less! Join the ecosystem and play some games 🎮!
Bridge Instantly:
We're thrilled to announce the launch of the Ancient8 Mainnet today (🎮,🟢)
Ancient8 Chain is now available for developers to build scalable and cost-effective on–chain blockchain games.
Read the blog:
A thread (1/7)
Have you checked your Boost Inbox? It's never been so easy to earn rewards for onchain actions.
And now - pay on Boost from any chain, powered by Relay.
Mint NFTs on
@ourZORA
,
@soundxyz_
,
@viamirror
with
@base
Eth - and EARN.
Bye bye bridges, hello interchain commerce.
Have you checked your Inbox? 👀
We just released some major updates that will change how you earn and build loyalty onchain.
✌️ Mint in 2-clicks
🫴Get crypto rewards back
💪Build loyalty
All in your Inbox. Check it out! 👇
We’re filling cross-chain mints & bridges in < 6 seconds... 🏎️
Since launch on Friday, Relay has filled over 10OK relays, with an average time of 5.33 seconds
It’s so fast it feels like magic 🪄
Don’t believe us, try it for yourself:
The Relay Protocol is a novel escrow system that lets users safely connect with an open market of relayers.
It is designed to reduce cost and friction to an absolute minimum, which is critical for enabling new cross-chain use cases.
Learn more:
Today, Relay operates in a trusted "single relayer mode", powered by
@reservoir0x
' s production grade relayer, providing liquidity across Ethereum and all major L2s.
Once the Relay Protocol goes live in Q2 (pending audits), anyone will be able to run a relayer and earn fees.
You've probably already used Relay.
In the past 7 days alone, we've helped 60,000 unique wallets go cross-chain. Huge shoutout to our early partners
@OurZora
&
@boost_xyz
!
Dune Dashboard:
Live Transaction Feed:
We did something really fun at
@relayprotocol
today - We claimed >$3M USD for users that forgot about funds on L1 bridges. And there's A LOT more waiting.
Free money in your wallet today? you might have us to thank.
Why we did it 👇
🚨Instant, low-cost bridging to RARI 🚨
We've been listening for your need to bridge your ETH to RARI with lower gas fees and less time 👂
Powered by
@relayprotocol
from
@reservoir0x
Link to bridge below for upcoming drops👇👇
To learn more about Relay, checkout the links below!
Developers - Add cross chain execution to your app
L2s - Get instant deposit / withdraw for your chain
Users - Try the Relay App for instant bridging
🏴☠️ To support our friends
@Arbitrum
and
@ProofOfPlay
, we're raffling 3 OG
@PirateNation
Founder's Pirates!
To qualify:
A. Follow
@RelayProtocol
& retweet this post
OR
B. Relay to Arbitrum Nova
You have 72 hrs, GOOD LUCK🤞🏾
Relay is technically not a bridge. It’s a fast liquidity layer.
Users pay Relayers to "fast fill" their cross-chain actions, avoiding the need to use slow, expensive bridges.
This results in a bridge-like UX at a fraction of the cost / time.
Cross-chain Purchases:
E.g., Buy a
@boredapeyc
on ETH while paying in OP on Optimism.
1. Make a purchase through Mintify
2. Order is validated, transfer submitted to the relayer
3. Relayer executes the calldata on destination chain
🧵 2/4
Just a single signature - it's that simple.
Relayer quotes cover the origin and destination gas fees, so you never need to pay for gas explicitly.
One step closer to frictionless onchain payments.
Feel the magic for yourself:
Our swapping uses Relay under the hood so you get all the same great benefits:
⚡️ Lightning-fast cross-chain fills
💰 Low-cost, gas-minimized bridging
⛓️ Early chain support
Relay leverages the native USDC permits to give you seamless crosschain payments.
When you want to pay in USDC, simply sign a message agreeing to the Relay quote. Then:
1. Relayer pulls funds on the origin chain
2. Relayer executes desired call on the destination chain
simply not gonna shut up about how awesome
@reservoir0x
's is
I just bridged eth from base to optimism in 4s for 37 cents.
@0xDjangoOnChain
analyzed a dozen other options and the second closest cost 4x as much and 4x as long
To prove this works we claimed $millions of dollars for users that accidentally forgot about money on a bridge or bridged too little to justify claiming.
Check out
@deor
's thread about it here!
We did something really fun at
@relayprotocol
today - We claimed >$3M USD for users that forgot about funds on L1 bridges. And there's A LOT more waiting.
Free money in your wallet today? you might have us to thank.
Why we did it 👇
Quick past week recap for
@RelayProtocol
!
- Launched bridging support for
@redstonexyz
🔴
- Launched bridging support for
@build_on_bob
🚀
- $13.3m in total bridging volume
- 245k total bridges
- 162k unique users
try it yourself ✨
First, what is a canonical bridge?
CBs are the native bridges for chains, providing reliable bridging for users looking to enter and exit L2 (and L3s!).
They are good:
• For large ETH value transfers (no bps fees)
• When bridging time in not a concern (they are slow)
How’s it so fast?
Relayers use their own capital to fill cross-chain actions for users. Their funds are already on the destination chain, so they can fill requests nearly instantly.
Later, relayers use slower, more expensive bridges to rebalance funds.
With Canonical +, we route directly to the canonical bridge, with a small payment to a relayer (to cover gas) who executes your subsequent txs.
Safe as before, cheap as ever - but even better UX.
Whether you need to go fast, or you’re cool to go slow, Relay has you covered 🤝🏾
Canonical bridges have a UX flaw.
When withdrawing from an L2 (L3), you have to make 2 or 3 txs to complete a withdrawal, including one when the bridge is done (~7 days later).
Do you want to have to remember to go back collect you money in 7 days?
So how do we solve this?
@writetohari
@AstarNetwork
Hi btchari - sorry for the inconvenience. The Astar RPC is down, meaning we cannot current bridge to the chain. We will refund your tx, as soon as possible, thanks for your patience
From here, we'll continue improving our chain coverage, opening up more tokens for swapping, and enhancing our prices!
Reach out to us for chain or token support, or to integrate cross-chain swapping into your app.
However, they aren't great for crosschain executions or regular bridging values because they have high fixed gas fees and are slow.
That's why we think they are a great compliment to Relay's fast and cheap relayer network.
Okay, but what do we mean by "plus"?
Speed for bridging is great, because you can get to a new chain quickly. Speed for cross-chain execution is critical.
Checking out is time-sensitive and users should be able to pay with currency on any chain.
It’s time to change the game.