# FastRelay

> FastRelay is a Solana transaction relay operated by AllenHark. Every signed transaction is sent down five broadcast paths at once so it lands in the slot it was aimed at: 99.8% same-slot landing (published figure), ~0.1ms QUIC dispatch, 4 regions (Frankfurt, Amsterdam, New York, Tokyo). No signup — the price is a 0.001 SOL tip per transaction. Staking the $RELAY utility token lowers that tip, reaching zero at 100,000 $RELAY, and raises the rate limit from 5 to 200 requests per second. Staking pays nothing. $RELAY is a utility token for network access. It is not an investment, a security, or a claim on revenue. Its price may fall and it may lose all value. Nothing on this site is financial advice or an offer of securities.

Entry points:
- Full expanded context: [llms-full.txt](https://fastrelay.sh/llms-full.txt)

## Overview

- [Home](https://fastrelay.sh/): What FastRelay does in one picture — a signed transaction taking five approach paths onto slot N while the public-mempool copy lands a slot late — with the live mainnet slot, the published operating figures, the four regions, a copy-paste integration snippet, the price and how stake changes it, and an FAQ. Only the slot is live; the relay's operating figures are published constants.

## Relay Network

- [Relay](https://fastrelay.sh/relay): The transaction-relay product page. Published operating figures (not a live-metrics feed): 99.8% same-slot landing, ~0.1ms QUIC dispatch, a 5-channel broadcast pipeline, and 4 active regions (Frankfurt, Amsterdam, New York, Tokyo). Covers the broadcast channels, submission transports, tip rules (0.001 SOL minimum), and Jito atomic bundles.
- [Relay integration guide](https://fastrelay.sh/docs/relay): Three submission modes — QUIC (~0.1ms dispatch, recommended), WebSocket, and HTTPS (~15–25ms) — across all 4 regions. Optional API-key auth, tip-wallet rules, ALT restrictions, Jito atomic bundles (up to 5 transactions), code examples, and the relay's 9 response error codes.
- [Validators — partner program](https://fastrelay.sh/validators): Partner validators route relay transaction flow through their existing stake for an incremental revenue stream on blockspace they already produce — no new hardware. Revenue-split terms are arranged directly via contact.

## Pricing

- [Pricing](https://fastrelay.sh/pricing): 0.001 SOL per transaction — no signup, no subscription, no monthly minimum. There are no plans or tiers. Staking $RELAY lowers the per-transaction tip along a convex curve until it reaches zero at 100,000 $RELAY, and raises the request-rate limit from 5 to 200 requests per second over the same curve. A wallet's current tip and rate limit are returned by GET /api/user/{wallet}/rate.

## Token

- [Tokenomics](https://fastrelay.sh/token): $RELAY is a fixed-supply SPL token on Solana — 1,000,000,000 total, mint authority revoked at genesis, no emissions, no inflation. Launch reference 0.001 SOL. Allocation and vesting (with live vault balances where reachable), the why-stake thesis (priority, cheaper tips, and higher throughput — explicitly not yield), and a summary of the usage-driven burn.
- [Litepaper](https://fastrelay.sh/litepaper): Full token design in rendered HTML ([PDF](https://fastrelay.sh/litepaper.pdf)) — priority mechanics, allocation, the burn engine, roadmap, and risk disclosures. $RELAY is a utility/access token; supply contracts with usage and the design does not route AllenHark's revenue to stakers.

## Token docs

- [Docs home](https://fastrelay.sh/docs): Integration and $RELAY token documentation index.
- [Staking](https://fastrelay.sh/docs/token/staking): How staked $RELAY converts into landing priority and tip discounts that scale with stake. Staking is locking, not spending — no yield, no slashing; unstaking returns 100% of tokens after a cooldown.
- [Tips in $RELAY](https://fastrelay.sh/docs/token/relay-tips): Pay relay tips in $RELAY at a discount to the equivalent SOL tip, priced via a time-averaged (TWAP) RELAY/SOL rate. A portion of every confirmed tip is burned; SOL tipping continues to work as a fallback.
- [Unstake cooldown](https://fastrelay.sh/docs/token/cooldown): The three-step unstake flow — request (priority stops immediately), cooldown (provisional 7–14 days), withdraw 100% of the unstaked amount. No slashing, no penalty.

## Presale

- [Presale](https://fastrelay.sh/presale): Buy $RELAY on-chain during early access. Connect a Solana wallet and pay in SOL (or USDC/USDT/USD1, swapped to SOL via Jupiter on mainnet) in one wallet-signed transaction at 0.00065 SOL per $RELAY — 35% below the 0.001 SOL launch reference, a factual comparison of two price levels. One price for everyone, no stages. Purchases are delivered as an on-chain vesting claim (3-month cliff from TGE, then linear to month 12). Raise progress and participant count are live reads of the deployed program. Descriptive, not an offer.
- [Early access](https://fastrelay.sh/early-access): Context for early participation — the market, use of proceeds (stake SOL for landing priority, grow the validator network, operations), price, and the 12-month vesting lockup. Utility, not a promise of profit — descriptive, not an offer of securities.

## App

- [Dashboard](https://fastrelay.sh/dashboard): The consolidated signed-in app (enter with a wallet challenge-signature or AllenHark SSO). Live network staking totals, the full burn record (each burn linked to its Solscan transaction), stake / unstake / claim-vesting actions, and relay API keys. This is the app surface (noindex), not a marketing page.

## Blog

- [How transaction landing priority works on Solana](https://fastrelay.sh/blog/how-transaction-landing-priority-works-on-solana): Slots, leaders, and stake-weighted QoS decide which Solana transactions land first — and how staked relays use it.
- [SOL vs $RELAY tips: how the discount and burn work](https://fastrelay.sh/blog/sol-vs-relay-tips-how-the-discount-and-burn-work): Tips start at 0.001 SOL, or pay in $RELAY at a discount priced by SOL-value via TWAP — a portion of every confirmed tip is burned.
- [Why staked SOL decides who lands first on Solana](https://fastrelay.sh/blog/why-staked-sol-decides-who-lands-first-on-solana): Stake-weighted QoS gives staked connections priority into Solana leaders — why public RPC loses races and how pooled stake changes the odds.

## Company / Social

- [AllenHark](https://allenhark.com): The infrastructure company operating FastRelay and issuing $RELAY.
- [Contact](https://fastrelay.sh/contact): Reach the team — Discord is fastest, or a contact form for $RELAY, staking, or validator-partnership questions.
- Discord: https://discord.gg/JpzS72MAKG
- Telegram: https://t.me/antonyAllenHark
- X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/allenhark
- GitHub: https://github.com/AllenHark-Inc
- Support: support@allenhark.com
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