Relay

Relay (relay.link) is a highly disruptive, intent-based cross-chain payments protocol and multichain trading network fundamentally designed to make Web3 transactions as fast and reliable as traditional online payments. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in New York City, the company operates as the ultimate infrastructure layer abstracting blockchain complexities from end-user experiences. Under the hood, Relay combines a robust intent-based solver network with comprehensive DEX meta-aggregation across over 85 chains—enabling instant, low-cost bridging and token swaps with execution times of just 1-10 seconds and 99.9% uptime. Their primary target audience spans millions of Web3 consumers, dApp developers, and enterprise partners (including MetaMask, Coinbase, and OpenSea) who desperately need to eliminate the UX friction, slow settlement, and unpredictable gas fees of traditional crypto bridges. What sets Relay apart in the fiercely competitive decentralized finance (DeFi) landscape is its massive scale and payments-grade reliability; having already processed over 59 million transactions and $6 billion in volume for more than 5 million users, completely transforming how liquidity and value flow across the blockchain ecosystem.