- Openzeppelin, the leading platform for building smart contracts, has revealed the official alpha release of relayers tailored to the Solana network.
- According to the release, this allows distributed applications to accept transaction fee tokens rather than having to keep the Solana.
Solana, the seventh-largest cryptocurrency with chain assets of over $22 billion, is even further apart from its competitors Cardano (ADA) and Tron (TRX) by providing developers with Solana Relayers from Openzeppelin, an unbeatable new tool.
Openzeppelin explains in that Report, “Solana Relayers can either implement a standardized RPC API interface that allows users to relay transactions and pay for them using other supported tokens instead of SOL, or have their relayers sponsor the transactions fully.” Let’s analyze what this means for Solana and how it benefits users and developers.
What is a relayer?
In traditional blockchain networks, users, in the case of Solana, have to pay for transactions via the native tokensol. That may not be easy, especially for new users who don’t have SOLs in their pockets.
Following Solana’s announcement, Relayers solve this problem by acting as an intermediary paying network fees on your behalf with SOL. Rather than having to use SOL, users can pay with other tokens, such as USDC, Bonk, or other supported tokens. This process known as gas abstraction makes blockchain interaction easier and more convenient, without the burden of using SOL for each transaction.
Solana Devs: Openzeppelin Alpha’s OpenSoursed Solana Relayers only!
With Solana Relayers you can:
– Accept app fee tokens
– Sponsored transaction for users (no Sol required)
– Integrate with key management services for payment of feesStart the experiment pic.twitter.com/ir3vs2lslr
– Solana Developer (@solana_devs) April 9, 2025
With the alpha release of Solana Relayers’ Openzeppelin, Devs can now integrate this feature into Dapps, reducing the adoption hurdle. Open source relayers have a wide range of uses, from performing on-chain updates based on off-chain data to periodic wallet transfers, to creating custom workflows with the highest possible flexibility and logic, with automated all on-chain security processes.
Since their first release in 2020, RELAYERS has already processed over 40 million transactions across over 70 blockchain networks, demonstrating how efficient and reliable they are. By making relayers available as open source products, Solana improves the user experience and increases the competitiveness of developers through automated, complex transactions.
Meanwhile, Openzeppelin also said it would expand native support for additional blockchains, including Base, Arbitron (ARB), Polygon (MATIC), BNB Chain, ZKSYNC and Scroll. This expansion works to maximize transaction management across multiple networks over the coming weeks.
In addition to this, Solana launched A set of tools that hide transaction volumes while maintaining confidential balances, on-chain verification and regulatory compliance. This further strengthens Solana’s reputation as a developer-friendly blockchain.
Solana is now Trade for $107 rear 1.16% Drops on past days, 13.52% It will decline last week. That trading volume also hit, sliding 22.95% to $5.788 billion. Despite the short-term recession, analysts predict that Sol could recover and break beyond the $177 level in the near future.
