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RailBridge

“Blockchain & account-to-account rails — anchored to instant-payment + stablecoin settlement.”

The Challenge

Money moves over many rails — ACH, RTP, FedNow, UPI, Pix, and increasingly stablecoin settlement under the GENIUS Act framework — each with different cost, speed, finality, and compliance. Teams built a least-cost, least-risk routing engine over a graph of rails.

About This Challenge

The problem Money now moves over many rails: ACH, RTP, FedNow, UPI, Pix, and increasingly stablecoin settlement under the new GENIUS Act framework. Each has different cost, speed, finality, and compliance properties, and few tools reason across them to pick the best path. What teams built A least-cost, least-risk routing engine that models A2A and blockchain rails as a graph of counterparties, constraints, and settlement paths, choosing an optimal route and simulating instant confirmation and on/off-ramp for a stablecoin leg. Partner ROI An evidence-based view of multi-rail and stablecoin orchestration, and a prototype for cost takeout versus card interchange. Skills proven Payments rails knowledge, blockchain and stablecoin fundamentals, optimization, graph reasoning, compliance awareness.

Research Team

GenHax NSF research network

Resources

ACH, RTP, FedNow, UPI, Pix, stablecoin settlement, GENIUS Act framework

Tags

#Finance#Payments#Blockchain#Stablecoin#FedNow#Optimization#Graph Reasoning
Hugo

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Hugo

0 teams / 50 max
Starts Jan 20, 2026, 9:00 AM (UTC)
Ends Mar 5, 2026, 11:59 PM (UTC)

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