The Rayls Public Chain mainnet went live in 2026. It builds on the company's prior private chain deployments and collaborations with major financial institutions, including Mastercard, XP Inc., and JP Morgan Kinexys. The launch completes Rayls' initial architectural vision: institutions tokenize assets in private, permissioned environments and then distribute them through an interoperable public chain, rather than forcing a choice between full privacy and full public liquidity.
What "Sub-Second Finality" Actually Means for Institutions
Once a transaction settles on Rayls, it's completed and final in less than one second. The company highlights this property as ideal for AI agents making autonomous payments, where waiting several blocks for confirmation would be impractical. Rayls also offers predictable gas payment in USD stablecoin. Institutions issuing private stablecoins can estimate costs more reliably and don't need to account for settlement delays or multi-block confirmation waits before treating a transaction as complete.
Full EVM Compatibility for Asset Interoperability
Rayls is fully compatible with Ethereum. Any token created on Rayls is immediately interoperable with any other EVM blockchain, without requiring complicated custom adaptations. This matters for asset tokenization use cases. An institution issuing a tokenized asset on Rayls doesn't need to build separate bridge infrastructure just to make that asset usable elsewhere in the broader EVM ecosystem.
Enygma: Rayls' Quantum-Resistant Privacy Layer
Rayls offers its native open-source protocol Enygma. It uses zero-knowledge cryptographic technology combined with post-quantum secure key exchange to deliver quantum-resistant privacy, with selective disclosure for regulators via what the company calls Auditor View. This selective disclosure design lets institutions transact confidentially, while still giving regulators the specific visibility they require for compliance. It's a structural requirement for use cases like CBDCs, tokenized deposits, and interbank settlement, where full transparency and full privacy are both partially necessary depending on the party involved.
Consensus Architecture Behind the Numbers
The Public Chain currently runs on an RBFT-based consensus model, with a planned 2026 migration to Rayls Axyl. Axyl is a next-generation consensus engine engineered for sub-second block times, deterministic finality, and institutional-scale throughput, with design targets in the tens of thousands of transactions per second. That throughput target is sized for institutional settlement volume, not primarily optimized for retail consumer-scale activity.
Existing Production Deployments Before This Public Launch
Rayls launched its private chain system back in 2024. It's already in production with major financial institutions, including Núclea, described as the largest financial market infrastructure provider in the Southern Hemisphere, and Cielo, Brazil's largest card acquirer. Rayls is also part of the Brazilian Central Bank's Drex CBDC pilot. That gives the network a genuine institutional production track record predating this public mainnet launch, rather than launching cold.
Launch Partners and New Strategic Relationships
At launch, the network is supported by 10 launch partners offering services through the Rayls blockchain, including LayerZero, Algebra, Lagoon, Predicate, and Enzyme Finance. Separately, Zoth, a privacy-first stablecoin neobank purpose-built for the Global South and the Agentic Economy, and Bakkt, Inc., a regulated digital asset infrastructure company, signed a Memorandum of Understanding establishing a framework for a strategic partnership around the Rayls ecosystem.
Institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure with built-in privacy controls like Rayls reflects the same trust-and-verification focus seen in Certora's partnership with Cork and Hypernative. Both target institutional-grade requirements that go beyond typical retail DeFi infrastructure.
Glossary
- Deterministic finality: A guarantee that once a transaction is confirmed, it cannot be reversed or reorganized, unlike probabilistic finality models where confirmation certainty increases gradually over time.
- Zero-knowledge proof: A cryptographic method that lets one party prove a fact is true without revealing the underlying data behind it.
- CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency): A digital form of a country's official currency, issued and backed directly by its central bank.
Disclaimer
This content is provided for informational purposes only and should not be treated as financial or investment advice. Blockchain infrastructure partnerships and technical roadmaps are subject to change. Confirm current details directly through official Rayls documentation.
