Velora Expands Crosschain Execution with Relay

Crosschain Swaps Just Got Faster & Cheaper

DeFi has never been about staying on one chain. From its earliest days, the promise was an open access digital economy, trade anywhere, move value freely, and interact with the best opportunities, wherever they emerge.

In reality, that vision has been slowed by high gas costs, slow bridging, and workflows scattered across multiple interfaces. Chain abstraction remains an aspiration for most protocols. For Velora, it’s the standard, and Relay is our latest partner to make it a reality.

Crosschain Trading at Full Speed with Relay

Velora now supports crosschain swaps and multi-step strategies powered by Relay, a multichain payments protocol built for speed and efficiency. Relay’s relayer-based architecture enables:

• Faster trades: Relayers can fill orders optimistically, even before payment is confirmed. 

• Cheaper trades: As much logic as possible is performed off of expensive chains to reduce costs.

• Lightweight design: Can operate on any chain with just a single relayer

These capabilities are now embedded directly into Velora’s intent-based execution layer, expanding crosschain trading possibilities:

• Bridge and swap in one request

• Run complex, multi-chain strategies

• Trade from multiple chains or assets in a single action

• Interact with any supported chain as if you were native to it

Faster Fills, Lower Fees, Same Security

Most crosschain solutions rely on multi-party consensus to confirm actions before settlement. That’s secure, but slow, often minutes per transfer. Relay’s model is different: a single relayer executes your trade on the destination chain using their own capital, settling later. This eliminates the wait for multi-party consensus and enables confirmations in seconds for most actions. 

By moving validation and fee collection to cheaper settlement chains and sending assets directly between user and relayer, costs are cut to the minimum possible. Combined with direct asset transfers between user and relayer, this design delivers meaningful savings which are important for traders, but critical for high-frequency or price-sensitive use cases.

For Velora users, this means faster fills, lower fees, and fewer failed transactions, without sacrificing the flexibility of intent-based execution.

Start Trading Crosschain Now

With Relay integrated, Velora’s crosschain execution stack now delivers:

• CEX-grade UX without centralized custody

• Execution costs low enough for both casual users and power traders

• Instant settlement for most actions, with broader support for resource locks to push latency even lower

“Relay was built for speed, efficiency, and true chain abstraction. With Velora, that vision is now in traders’ hands. Users can now bridge, swap, and execute across chains in seconds, with costs low enough for everyday use,” said representative from Relay team.

Relay support is live on Velora today. Whether you’re bridging ETH to Base, consolidating stablecoin balances from multiple chains, or executing multi-step strategies, you can now do it faster and cheaper, without leaving the Velora app.

Try it now at velora.xyz and experience DeFi as it was meant to be.