You send a destination and an amount. What follows is a sequence of five steps, each performed by a licensed institution in its own market, each reporting its own state back to you.
Funds arrive on the origin market's own domestic rails — the transfer the sender already knows how to make. Nothing has to leave the country yet, and nothing has to be sitting anywhere else.
A licensed partner issues stablecoin one to one against the money it is holding. This is the step that turns a domestic balance into something that can move without a correspondent bank in the way.
The value moves to the destination market onchain. There is no chain of intermediaries to clear one hop at a time, no cut-off time to miss, and no weekend. This is the part that used to take four days.
A licensed partner in the destination market converts the stablecoin into local currency at the rate you were quoted before you committed — not a rate discovered somewhere in the middle of the journey.
The beneficiary is paid on their own market's rails, into the account they already have. From their side it looks like a domestic payment, because by that point it is one.
The conventional route is slow because each hop is its own settlement, with its own hours, its own fee and its own view of only the next party in line. Remove the hops and both the days and the deductions go with them.
The crossing does not observe cut-off times, weekends or public holidays, because there is no institution in the middle whose Monday it depends on.
There is no intermediate party applying a rate you never see. The conversion happens once, at the destination, at the price you were quoted.
Because the value arrives in minutes, the payout does not need to be pre-funded. The transfer itself funds the corridor.
This is architecture, not policy. At no point in the five moves is the money in an Elytra account, because Elytra does not have one in the path.
Build against the sandbox today, or tell us the route and we will price it against what you pay now.