8 posts tagged with "Announcement"

April 20, 2026 — Today we are publishing the full roadmap for moving OrcaRail from its current custodial sweep model (we generate a deposit address per payment link, then sweep and split funds) to a non-custodial smart-contract model (funds land in a per-link contract that splits and settles atomically, and subscriptions pull from a payer-controlled allowance).

This post is the index. Each phase has its own deep-dive post and a living docs page, so you can deep-link to exactly the part you care about.

April 20, 2026 — This is the OrcaRail Protocol whitepaper. It is the canonical statement of what OrcaRail is becoming: an open, credibly neutral, non-custodial, non-stop payment rail that a Web2 merchant can integrate using familiar HTTP APIs and webhooks, and a Web3 payer can use with any wallet — and that keeps settling even if OrcaRail, the company, disappears.

It extends — it does not replace — the non-custodial roadmap and the protocol debate. The non-custodial roadmap (Track N, Phases 0-7) removes custody. This whitepaper adds a parallel Track P that decentralizes the rest: indexers, frontends, standards, keepers, and governance.

April 20, 2026 — Before we write a line of Solidity, we freeze the spec. Phase 0 is the design and sign-off phase of the non-custodial roadmap: what moves on-chain, what does not, which chain ships first, who audits the contracts, and who holds the deployer keys.

April 20, 2026 — Phase 7 is the cleanup. By the time we get here, EVM and Solana volumes are on contract receivers and SubscriptionHub, Bitcoin is on 2-of-2 multisig, and every new payment link avoids the legacy sweep path. This phase removes the legacy code and the legacy secrets.

March 25, 2026 — OrcaRail supports recurring subscriptions in the same API-first model as one-off payments: you create a subscription, we track billing periods, and payers complete each cycle—either by opening a payment link or by auto-charge, where they authorize us to pull stablecoins each period after a one-time on-chain approval.

March 15, 2026 — OrcaRail uses Relay Link for payments and cross-chain bridging. As a result, we support the same networks and currencies that Relay supports—and they’re integrated automatically. No hardcoded list to maintain; when Relay adds or updates chains and tokens, our system picks them up.

March 5, 2026 — OrcaRail is multichain by design. Here’s a clear picture of what we support today, how withdrawals work per chain, and how we line up with Relay on Bitcoin and Solana.

January 1, 2026 — Today, we are thrilled to announce the launch of OrcaRail.

Built with the assistance of AI and driven by a singular conviction: crypto payments must be open, transparent, and accessible across all chains. For too long, merchants and developers have been forced to choose between complex, unmaintained open-source tools or expensive, closed-ecosystem payment gateways that lock you in and charge high fees.

We built OrcaRail to break that paradigm. OrcaRail is a multichain payment platform that bridges Web2 business logic and Web3 settlement — hosted with simple per-transaction pricing and a generous free tier, or self-hosted Open source soon for full sovereignty.