Telis is raising

What are we building

Making Bridging net-positive i.e We pay users to bridge.

Bridges generated more than $100+ Billion in on-chain volume and $240+ Million in fees in 2025.

And at Telis we are making it 10x faster than LayerZero, 90% cheaper than median bridging fee, and with 5x more route coverage (6320 possible routes).

CLS settles $2 trillion daily by moving just $20 billion in actual cash—a 99% netting efficiency. We're bringing the same level of efficiency to bridging.

Market Opportunity

Cross-chain space is growing at an exceptional 25%+ CAGR with $15+ Billion in monthly volume and $15-20 Million in fees generated. It is a market growing with DeFi's 40%+ CAGR. But the current leaders force tradeoffs between scale, cost and speed.

Telis will capture this share by eliminating these tradeoffs and enable sub-second settlement (MegaETH's millisecond block latency), sub 2 BPS cost (WCM Atlas engine), 80+ chain coverage by hedging on WCM.

Market Opportunity

This also opens an underserved segment: ICM apps (prediction markets, perp DEXs, launchpads) that need atomic cross-chain deposits and collectively move $100B+ monthly but can't integrate existing bridges to enable atomic cross-chain transactions.

Parameter Relay LayerZero
(Stargate)
CCTP
(USDC only)
deBridge Telis
Route Coverage (>85%)* 55% 36.7% 100% 84% 100%
Speed (<5 sec)
Small Trade Cost (<50bps)**
Large Trade Cost (<2 BPS)***
Chain Integration 79 93 20 27 80+

*Ratio of Chains integrated and unidirectional routes between the chains

**<$500 trade size

***<$10,000 trade size

The Verdict: Relay is fast with cheap small trades but fails on large trades and route coverage. LayerZero has 93 chains but is slow and costly for small trades. CCTP has full coverage and cheap but only 20 chains and with some of being slower routes. deBridge is slow and costly for small trades. Telis is the only protocol that checks every box.

Product

TL;DR: We manage treasuries across chains and DEXs to enable cross-chain transactions efficiently. Instead of "transfer of asset across chains", we focus on transfer of value and net out all possible trades—the most efficient money moving method traditionally.

Competitive Positioning
HIGH ROUTE COVERAGE
SLOW / EXPENSIVE
Messaging LayerZero, Wormhole, CCIP Burn, mint, lock, release
Telis
Stable Balances deBridge
Solvers Across, Relay
CCTP
FAST / CHEAP
LOW ROUTE COVERAGE
Telis is the only solution in the top-right quadrant

Telis consolidates settlements across chains using WCM's Atlas risk engine to hedge all directional exposure and stay delta-neutral. Because our system works like an account book, we're extremely capital efficient and generate yield through funding rates, orderbook-onchain arbitrage, stablecoin yield, etc.

This keeps bridging costs low for users (<5 BPS) while LP principal stays protected. And when a user's trade brings net value to our balance sheet—e.g. bridging out of a chain we need to rebalance—we pay them to bridge. Their flow closes our hedge and saves rebalancing costs and we share that upside back to them.

We believe end users should be able to load any preferred asset from any chain on an app to be able to use it!

Demo Video

Beta Results

Launched Feb 25 as the primary bridge for MegaETH's public stress test — Base + Solana → MegaETH with $50 cap per tx. Airdropped Soul-Bound NFTs to create a retention loop.

4,026
Total Deposits
2,186
Unique Users
$100K+
Volume (40+ ETH)
99.88%
Success Rate
1.38s / 1.75s
Avg Speed (Sol / Base)
836
Peak DAU

48% of users independently called out speed as the standout feature. Zero lost funds. Zero failed settlements. 17.4% repeat usage with power users averaging 8.7 txns each.

View Full Beta Results →

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Team

Hem

Co-founded Sidebot (4k users, $40M+ volume). Ran $250k ARR Web3 marketing studio. Drives product architecture, GTM, and UX at Telis.

Aditya

Co-founded Sidebot. Worked at Nethermind, Polygon. Built $50M+ liquidity pipeline at Zoth. Owns strategy and partnerships.