The product in one paragraph
Corridor is the payment ledger and router a licensed payment company runs itself, with its own keys. A single EUR → NGN payout today crosses a bank collection, one or more stablecoin providers, several chains, a bridge, a local payout partner and the beneficiary’s bank, each with its own ids and dashboard. Corridor follows each payout through all of it with a 32-byte Corridor Reference carried in every chain’s native memo, matches it from funding to bank credit, and puts everything that did not match in an exceptions queue. When Corridor moves the money, it settles on Tempo and pays out through the partner that serves the destination: a Nigerian bank account, a Hong Kong supplier account, Pix in Brazil, or a shielded Zcash address. Customers start read-only: Corridor watches the wallets they already run and matches their own payout records, with no keys and nothing moving.Who it serves
Remittance and payout operators
Cross-border payouts without a pre-funded nostro account in each country, starting with Europe → Africa (EUR, GBP, USD → NGN, KES, GHS).
Importers, exporters and their PSPs
Businesses paying suppliers across borders, starting with African importers paying China, Hong Kong, India, the UAE and the Americas, with the option to keep supplier prices off public chains.
Ramps and payout partners
Local liquidity providers become a spoke: one integration reaches every customer and every other region on the network.
Treasury and finance teams
Every payout matched end to end across providers and chains, an exceptions queue, a CSV for the books, and auditor disclosures from a single console.
What it replaces
What Corridor is not
- Not a custodian or a money transmitter. Corridor runs in the customer’s environment and signs with the customer’s own KMS or MPC keys; it never holds customer funds. The licensed customer holds the FX permissions, the KYC and the end-customer relationship. For outbound flows from regulated markets (for example Form M for Nigerian imports), Corridor carries the compliance references in the saga data and produces the reconciliation trail as audit evidence.
- Not a wallet or an exchange. Customers do not trade on Corridor; it settles and reconciles their payments.
- Not a new chain or a new rail. Corridor composes existing chains and providers, each for the job it does best: Tempo for settlement, Solana and Base for partner liquidity, Zcash for privacy, and payout and liquidity providers (Paj, Yellow Card, Conduit, Mansa and others) as venues.
- Not tied to one stablecoin. USDC, USDT, PYUSD and EURC are first-class alongside pathUSD (ADR 0010).