Unlock Labs has integrated with Relay (relay.link), a cross-chain payment system designed to simplify and enhance payments across decentralized networks. Relay is an offering from Reservoir.

Integrating the Unlock Labs checkout experience with Relay addresses a number of the key challenges users face when purchasing onchain memberships, subscriptions, or tickets across multiple networks in instances where funds and memberships are located on different chains.

What is Relay?

Relay is a cross-chain payment solution that handles transactions across different blockchain networks in a fast, cost-effective, and user-friendly manner. Relay uses “relayers,” which are specialized agents that act on behalf of users, to execute transactions on various chains.

By using this model, Relay reduces the need for users to bridge assets manually and reduces high transaction fees.

Relay enables users to complete transactions quickly, usually in just seconds, and keeps costs low by minimizing onchain operations.

Why Relay matters for Unlock Protocol

Integrating Relay with the Unlock Labs checkout experience makes cross-chain transactions convenient, fast, and affordable for users. Unlock Protocol focuses on democratizing memberships and subscriptions onchain, and Relay’s features align well with this mission.

With this integration, creators and builders using Unlock Protocol get:

Seamless purchase of cross-chain memberships: Users can use tokens from one chain (e.g. “ETH on mainnet”) to purchase memberships or subscriptions deployed on another chain (e.g. a subscription on Base that’s priced in USDC). The Relay integration eliminates the need to bridge assets manually or take other confusing or time-consuming steps prior to purchase. This reduces friction significantly, and makes the purchase process straightforward for users with varying levels of technical expertise.

Cost and time savings: By leveraging Relay’s relayer model, transactions are processed quickly and at a lower cost than other methods such as manual bridging.

Broad industry and network support: Relay’s architecture allows Unlock Labs to support a wide range of networks from a single checkout experience. This means that developers and users across different ecosystems can now access Unlock-powered memberships and subscriptions without being concerned with network-specific limitations.

Building together, in public

The integration highlights the Unlock Protocol community’s ongoing commitment to improving usability and driving onchain adoption.

By addressing existing pain points such as high costs and complicated cross-chain processes, Unlock Protocol continues to ship real solutions for onchain memberships and subscriptions that are usable by all.

Relay’s capabilities are solidly aligned with Unlock’s philosophy, and make it easier for developers and users to interact with cross-chain applications in a straightforward manner.

The Unlock Labs integration with Relay is yet another step towards a more interconnected and accessible approach where interoperability and ease of use are central to the user experience.