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Meet Mayan 2.0: Faster Cross-Chain Swaps for the Financial Apps of the Future

Mayan 2.0 is live

Mayan 2.0 is live.

A major upgrade to our cross-chain swap protocol, it delivers 5x faster swaps, 2x lower execution costs, and a set of improvements that make asset movement across chains faster, cheaper, and more seamless.

It also expands what developers can do with cross-chain transactions, including the ability to combine swaps with downstream actions such as payments, deposits, and staking in a single flow using Zaps.


What is Mayan?

Mayan is how crypto moves. Through a simple swap interface and a powerful set of developer tools, it handles routing and execution behind the scenes so users get fast, competitive cross-chain swaps and teams can build cross-chain movement into their products. Built on Wormhole and trusted by some of the largest apps in crypto, Mayan has processed $17.5B+ in volume across 7M+ swaps and 2.8M+ users to date.

Mayan supports cross-chain swaps across all major ecosystems including Solana, Ethereum, Monad, Base, BNB Chain, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, Avalanche, Hyperliquid, HyperEVM, Fogo, Sui, Linea, and Unichain, with more being added.


What 2.0 makes possible

For users:

  • Swaps complete in seconds, through a real-time auction where a network of drivers competes on every order

  • Faster auctions and lower participation costs mean more competition and better pricing at any size

Try it at swap.mayan.finance or inside the dozens of applications that route through Mayan.

For builders:

  • Turn a single swap into any onchain action on the destination chain: a deposit, a stake, a contract call, all in one flow with Zaps

  • Onboard users from any ecosystem faster.

  • Add gas abstraction, gas sponsorship, and custom fee structures to your application

For builder documentation, visit docs.mayan.finance.


Why now

As stablecoins, tokens, and real-world assets become more widely used inside wallets, custodial platforms, and financial products, expectations for cross-chain transactions are rising.

Users expect asset movement to be instant, reliable, and low-cost.

“People do not think about how money moves between banks. It just works. That is the standard crypto should meet across chains. Mayan already powers that movement inside some of the largest apps in the industry, and 2.0 makes that experience significantly faster and more efficient for millions of users.” — Mo Elahi, Founder of Mayan

Mayan already powers cross-chain swaps inside leading applications including MetaMask, Phantom, OKX Wallet, Binance Wallet, LI.FI, Socket, Infinex, Portal, Rango Exchange, KyberSwap, and more.

This upgrade improves the speed and cost of these cross-chain transactions and enables more seamless user experiences across applications.


The future of cross-chain swaps

This upgrade improves how assets move across chains today.

It also makes cross-chain swaps fast enough, cheap enough, and flexible enough to support a new class of financial applications.