Symbiotic Launches Relay for Multichain Settlement and Staking Coordination
Symbiotic, the Universal Staking protocol, today announced the launch of Relay, its SDK. The new coordination layer lets any protocol verify and settle stake across any chain without having to deploy custom infrastructure or build a staking system from scratch.
With Symbiotic Relay, developers can plug into Symbiotic in 200 lines of code and unlock something previously impossible: the ability to use stake from any ecosystem to verify protocol decisions on any chain, whether or not Symbiotic is deployed there. This makes it easy to build bridges, oracles, rollups, or risk protocols that are secured by real stake and verifiable anywhere their users are, without having to bootstrap a validator set, trust a multisig, or sacrifice decentralization.
Symbiotic Relay was a core development focus behind Symbiotic’s recent $29M Series A funding round led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and over 100 angels from leading teams, such as Aave, Ether.fi, Polygon, Starkware and others. This launch marks a major milestone in Symbiotic’s mission to redefine Proof-of-Stake for a modular, cross-chain world. The need for such infrastructure is underscored by the increasing trend of multichain development; according to Electric Capital’s 2024 Developer Report, 34% of monthly active crypto developers are now contributing to projects across multiple blockchains, up from less than 10% in 2015. Symbiotic Relay takes Universal Staking from an abstract idea to practical infrastructure that developers can implement quickly and use to build secure, multichain-native protocols out of the box.
“Until now, building a secure multichain protocol meant choosing between trusted relayers or expensive, bespoke infrastructure,” said Algys Ievlev, co-founder of Symbiotic. “Relay solves that. It gives builders a way to use real stake to verify real outcomes across chains without making tradeoffs on cost, security, or developer experience. We believe this will become the default way protocols coordinate across chains.”
Symbiotic makes staking programmable: any protocol can define its own validator set, choose how voting power is calculated, configure custom slashing or rewards logic, and use that security across chains, with a modular stack. Relay is a key piece of that architecture.
Teams building fast-finality rollups, generalized bridge networks, and decentralized insurance layers are already exploring Symbiotic Relay to power multichain verification with shared security. These use cases were previously limited to siloed, single-chain deployments or required extensive custom infrastructure.
Symbiotic went live on mainnet earlier this year and has already secured over $1B in active stake across 14 networks. The launch of Symbiotic Relay unlocks support for dozens of additional chains and execution environments that previously couldn’t access Symbiotic’s security and positions Symbiotic as the coordination layer for a modular, multichain world.
About Symbiotic
Symbiotic is a universal staking protocol that provides a modular coordination framework for the blockchain ecosystem. It enables protocols to evolve their security models over time and unlock entirely new economic primitives. Backed by Paradigm, Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, cyberFund, and over 100 angel investors, Symbiotic is currently live on 14 networks and expanding to a total of 35, with additional networks in various stages of integration. For more, visit website.
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