Yes we do, but this will take more time. This year, we are mainly focusing on winning our home turf Switzerland. In 2025, once we have the MiCA-License, we will dedicate more resources into expanding into all the EU countries and potentially the UK. In 2026, we will then start our global expansion, starting with the US and the Middle East, possibly including mergers and acquisitions with great already existing local companies. The ambition to expand is in our DNA, but more time is needed! :)

We are definitely aware of such a potential issue, it's true that at some point low amount orders can/will end up being dust. We are therefore working on the following solutions:

I might be biased but I think in Switzerland people are very excited about bitcoin, both bottom-up (20% of people hold BTC) and top-down (regulators are very open about BTC). Our users mostly come from Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy and France, and also Spain and Czech Republic seem to have high adoption rates from what I hear. I think the Northern and Eastern European countries are in general still more passive, I wouldn't say pessimistic though, they just need more time! :)

Yes we are! Our headquarter and holding company will always be in Zurich, but already now we are opening up a new office in Paris for our French license, which will turn into a MiCA-License in 2025. Other hubs like Berlin, Vienna and Milano are starting to establish themselves, with first employees being hired in these important countries, at one point we could start satellite companies / offices there as well, why not? :) Liebe Grüsse zurück!

Switzerland has a long tradition of being a country that is politically neutral and independent, with a very solid regulatory & legal system, coupled with a directly democtratic government. Swiss people have a culture of unparalleled work ethic, high quality standards, and trust/reliability. This enabled Switzerland to become a hub for the financial industry, especially banking & wealth management, also because it attracted a lot of rich people from Europe and the whole world. I think the intention of Swiss people and the government is for this reputation to prevail and be open to bitcoin, even our central bank is usually quite forward looking and I could imagine that they will be a first mover if a bitcoin standard or even hyperbitcoinization situation were to unfold in the future.

Great website, props to our marketing team! :)

Thank you for the kind words, here are a few things that make Relai very special :)

I would say: not yet...

We used to have it like that initially but this ended up creating more problems for our users. We would need to refund if a user forget the code or mistype it, that's why we request our users to create an order first.

We are from Switzerland and we can benefit from the advantages a Swiss "license" provides. Regarding expansion: #484165

We can serve all of Europe with our current license but are also applying for a French license currently to be ready for the new MiCA legislation that will come soon

You can buy and sell (to EUR or CHF) with Relai. The code is not open source but you can verify the 12 words generated from the app via any other wallet. You can also directly stack to an external wallet using the Relai wallet just to create orders

The LN wallet is non-custodial and we'll implement buy/sell via LN this year

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