Hold funds
Users sign straight to the venue. There is no wallet of ours in the path, so there is nothing here to take.
About
Infrastructure for moving value between chains. We hold no funds, wrote no smart contracts, and take nothing from retail. Those three constraints shaped everything else.
17Chains15 EVM + BTC + SOL17Routing venuesRaced in parallel16/17Healthy nowDegraded venue0Fees for usersPermanently
Liquidity is not scarce. It is scattered.
On any given pair, several venues could fill the trade. An RFQ market maker, an intent network, a cross-chain solver, a Bitcoin-native rail. They disagree, often by more than the fee anyone is arguing about.
Most products settle that by picking one venue and calling it routing. We ask all of them at once and rank on what lands in the wallet: net output after gas, then speed when outputs are close. The loudest rate loses that comparison more often than people expect. That is why the homepage shows the losing routes next to the winner.
What we refuse to do
Write contracts
Settlement runs on infrastructure that predates us, built and run by other teams. We add no contract to your risk surface.
Wrap assets
Every swap settles the canonical asset. A wrapper is a claim on a custodian, and we would rather not be in that business or put you in it.
Charge retail
0 bps, permanently. Integrators charge their own fee and we pay it out. The money moves the other way.
Gate the API
No key, no signup, open CORS. If the product is good, the demo should be the product and not a sales call.
Invent numbers
There is no volume figure, no customer logo wall and no benchmark on this site, because we have none we could prove.
Every number here is read, not typed
The chain count, the venue count, venue health and the route race on the homepage all come from our own public API at build time and refresh in your browser. None of it sits in a text layer.
Partly that is discipline. Hand-maintained numbers drift. Mostly it is the argument. A routing product asking to be trusted with execution should be willing to show its coverage live, from an endpoint you can call yourself, without a key.
The team
Small. Smaller than the surface area suggests, which is the usual trade for building on infrastructure you did not write and do not have to maintain.
We are not hiring. If you are integrating and want whoever actually built the thing, that is who answers team@ravn.exchange. There is no tier in front of it.
RAVN is not Ravencoin
RAVN (ravn.exchange) is a cross-chain swap execution engine. It has no relationship to Ravencoin (RVN), a separate cryptocurrency and blockchain. There is no RAVN token, and anything claiming to be one is not ours.