Introducing the Rayls Launch Partner Program

The Rayls Launch Partner Programme exists for a single purpose: to give institutions a vetted, full-stack ecosystem to bring their business operations onchain at scale from the launch of the Rayls Mainnet.

Rayls Public Chain Mainnet launched on 30 April 2026. For the institutions we are building Rayls for, the question is not whether DeFi has matured enough to be useful, but whether they can practically reach the relevant providers without spending months upskilling, evaluating vendors, and running their own due diligence on each one. The Launch Partner Programme is our answer to that question.

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Curated, not broad

Most networks compete on partner count. They publish ecosystem pages crowded with dozens of overlapping providers and let the market sort out which ones are real. That approach makes sense for a network targeting crypto-native users, who tend to enjoy the optionality and have the appetite to evaluate each option themselves.

Institutions are different. A senior banker does not have time to evaluate twelve custodians, eight asset management protocols, or six oracle providers. They need one trusted choice per category, vetted to a standard they recognise, deployed and ready to engage. We have therefore done the opposite of the breadth-first model. We have selected a small, deliberate set of launch partners and gone deep with each, rather than chasing the longest list in the industry.

Filling the ecosystem map

The programme is structured around the categories an institutional client actually needs to launch and operate onchain end to end. Each category has been filled by a partner chosen for genuine specialisation in that area. The complete ecosystem stack is critical, as a bank cannot run a tokenisation programme on Rayls if the custody piece is missing, the oracle layer is fragmented, or the audit and monitoring partners cannot serve the relevant jurisdiction. The point of the programme is not to assemble a roster, but to make sure the stack works.

How partners are selected

Three criteria sit at the heart of the selection process: security, compliance, and institutional readiness. Each prospective partner is evaluated against the operational, regulatory, and technical standards that a regulated institution would apply when running its own vendor due diligence. That includes their security posture and audit history, the regulatory regimes they operate under, their experience supporting institutional clients, and their ability to integrate at the volumes that real institutional flow demands.

The Rayls Foundation runs the diligence so that the institutional client does not need to repeat it.

A two-way relationship

The programme is structured to create value in both directions, which is why it works.

For institutional clients, the Launch Partner stack means a vetted, recommendable set of providers ready on day one. They can move from a strategic decision to a working onchain deployment without the months of upskilling and vendor evaluation that would otherwise sit between them and any meaningful go-live. Rayls plays the matchmaker, pairing the right partner to the right institutional use case so that asset issuance, payments, and deal flow can be routed cleanly through the ecosystem.

For partners, the programme is a route to institutional demand they could not easily reach on their own. Rayls brings active institutional client projects, an existing footprint across major banks in Brazil, and a growing pipeline of institutional projects already being built on the network. Partners receive integration support, ecosystem visibility, and the credibility that comes with being part of a small, named group at the centre of the network.

Why this matters for Rayls users

Rayls is built to bring the largest financial institutions onchain. Not as a sideshow, but the full scale of their capital, customers and operations. By making Rayls the best place for institutions to transact and issue their assets, the benefits for users and investors are:

• New high yield, lower risk assets issued onto Rayls at institutional scale (see Nimofast and AmFi announcements committing to issue $ Billions onto Rayls)
• Greater transparency and protection, as issuers are strictly regulated and must prove their asset collateral and reserves
• Seamless and composable TradFi-DeFi transaction flows, connecting traditional banking with DeFi  (via Rayls’s unique private-public chain architecture)
• Scaling up RLS token utility and demand, as all transactions, across both Rayls private and public chains, must settle in RLS to power the network ecosystem (see the Rayls Tokenomics blog post)

What's next

Mainnet launched on 30 April 2026, with the Launch Partner Programme running through the months that follow as integrations go live and the Rayls’s institutional assets go into production and migrate from the Privacy Nodes to the Public Chain. We will share more on individual partners and the use cases they are powering as the programme rolls out.

If you are a financial institution evaluating onchain options, or a service provider that thinks you meet the bar for a launch partner category, get in touch. The aim of this programme is not to assemble the largest partner list in the industry. It is to assemble the best one.

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