TL;DR

Symbiotic launched Relay, a multichain staking layer that validates decisions on any compatible network from Ethereum, without permissions or intermediaries.
The tool allows oracles, bridges, and rollups to operate across chains without trusted relayers or centralized schemes, ensuring decentralized consensus.
Symbiotic currently manages over $1,000M in staking and recently raised $29M to accelerate Relay’s integration across more than 40 ecosystems.

Symbiotic introduced Relay, a tool that enables staking on Ethereum to validate decisions on any other compatible network, without prior permissions or centralized intermediaries. The key innovation lies in allowing different ecosystems to coordinate natively for the first time, with shared staking and decentralized validation across networks, tokens, and consensus layers.

Multichain Staking

Relay gives developers the ability to build multichain applications without relying on costly custom configurations or centralized infrastructure. Protocols can integrate shared staking and consensus across networks like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, combining security, flexibility, and speed within a single coordination layer.

Symbiotic’s goal is to remove concerns about where a user’s stake resides or the security of bridges between networks. Applications communicate directly with one another, with guaranteed results.

The system designed by Symbiotic relies on three essential components. On-chain staking modules manage operators and voting power. A sidecar network aggregates off-chain signatures and distributes data across networks. Finally, settlement contracts deployed on any EVM chain verify results natively. This architecture eliminates the high costs that previously made it unfeasible to validate large validator sets across multiple blockchains. By combining BLS cryptography with zero-knowledge proofs, costs remain constant regardless of network size.

Symbiotic to Integrate Relay Across 40+ Ecosystems

Relay makes it possible to build new types of protocols that were previously impractical. Oracles, bridges, and rollups can operate between chains without relying on trusted relayers or Proof-of-Authority schemes. Even layer 1 chains can validate external stake and integrate it into their consensus without compromising decentralization.

Symbiotic currently manages over $1,000M in staking distributed across 15 networks and has established agreements with more than 40 ecosystems to integrate Relay. In April, the company raised $29M in a round led by Pantera Capital and Coinbase Ventures. The middleware is now available in early access for testing and is being prepared for production deployment as a foundation for decentralized applications operating across multiple blockchains

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Filed under: News - @ June 3, 2025 3:27 pm