Request Network GTM brain

Request Network provides noncustodial stablecoin acceptance and payout infrastructure for payment providers and their customers.

category

Stablecoin payment infrastructure

market profile

  • text: Payment orchestrators and PSPs can add branded stablecoin acceptance and payouts to their existing payment stack.
  • text: Cross-chain transactions create friction around gas, swaps, screening and reconciliation.

personas

  • title: Head of product, payment service provider
    pains:
    • Merchants want stablecoin acceptance without a separate provider relationship
    • A custom multi-chain payment flow is expensive and slow to build
  • title: Payments engineering lead
    pains:
    • Coordinate swaps, bridging and gas across chains
    • Reconcile payment references with on-chain status
  • title: Payment operations and compliance lead
    pains:
    • Screen receiving wallets while processing many payments
    • Track transaction-level evidence and payment status

icp

  • text: Payment orchestrators and PSPs with merchants seeking stablecoin collections and disbursements.
  • text: Crypto-native platforms making repeated global payouts or accepting deposits across chains.

message pillars

  • text: Offer branded payment infrastructure with screening built in.
  • text: Remove gas complexity for users.
  • text: Keep settlement wallet to wallet.

objections

  • objection: Adding crypto creates extra compliance work.
    response: Assess the optional wallet screening and audit trail against your own compliance obligations.
  • objection: Our customers operate on different chains.
    response: Evaluate the supported chains and automatic bridging and swapping for your expected flows.
  • objection: We cannot put customer funds in another intermediary's custody.
    response: The site describes direct wallet-to-wallet settlement; verify the integration and legal model for your use case.

competitors

  • name: NOWPayments
    why: Crypto payment provider listed in Request's own comparison.
  • name: CoinsPaid
    why: Crypto payment provider listed in its pricing comparison.
  • name: Mesh
    why: Competes for payment infrastructure integrations.
  • name: Fireblocks
    why: Offers competing digital asset payment infrastructure.

influencers

  • name: Tristan Wallaert
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/request-network
    why: CEO appearing in the company's public event and product updates.

keywords

  • stablecoin payment API
  • white label crypto payments
  • stablecoin payouts
  • cross chain payments
  • crypto payment orchestration
  • wallet screening

voice

  • direct and technical
  • global and decentralization focused
  • commercially practical

signals

  • text: A PSP announces merchant demand for stablecoin acceptance or cross-border payouts.
  • text: A platform is building wallet screening or multi-chain payment flows in house.

stack

  • EVM
  • Tron
  • USDC
  • USDT
  • EURC
  • API

pricing

model: usage
starting price: 0.9% per transaction, capped at $500; Tron network cost may apply

motion

hybrid

channels

  • website
  • API documentation
  • LinkedIn
  • X
  • events

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Christophe Lassuyt
    title: Founder/CFO
    role: Founder
  • name: Etienne TATUR
    title: Founder/CTO
    role: CTO

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