Mayan facilitates over $20B in cross-chain swaps via Wormhole

Cross-chain bridging has a reputation problem. Slow, expensive, and occasionally catastrophic, moving assets between blockchains has historically felt less like financial infrastructure and more like a trust fall. Mayan Finance is making a case that it doesn’t have to be that way, crossing $20.23 billion in cumulative bridged volume as of early September 2026.

That number puts Mayan in serious company. For context, Wormhole’s Portal bridge, which Mayan plugs into, has processed over $55 billion in total lifetime volume. Mayan is responsible for a meaningful slice of that broader ecosystem activity, not a rounding error.

How Mayan actually works

The protocol runs on two primary routing mechanisms built on top of Wormhole’s messaging layer. The first is Swift, an intent-based system where competitive solvers race to fill user orders, settling transactions in as little as two to twelve seconds. The second is WH Swap, which embeds swap instructions directly into Wormhole’s Token Bridge framework to guarantee atomic execution.

Fees sit well below what most bridge users are accustomed to paying. WH Swap charges 10 basis points, and Swift comes in at roughly 3 basis points. A basis point is one-hundredth of a percent, so on a $10,000 transfer, Swift’s fee works out to three dollars.

And stablecoins are exactly where Mayan has found its strongest product-market fit. USDC transfers across chains crossed $8 billion by the end of 2025, making USDC-to-USDC the dominant pair on the platform.

The growth curve

Mayan’s volume trajectory has been consistent rather than spike-driven. The protocol registered $16 billion in all-time volume by the end of 2025, moved through a range of $17.5 billion to $19 billion in the first half of 2026, and crossed $20.23 billion shortly after.

The transaction count tells a similar story. At 9.6 million total bridge transactions and 3.4 million unique wallets, the user base isn’t a small cluster of whales moving large blocks.

Mayan’s integration strategy has amplified that reach considerably. The protocol is embedded in DEX aggregators including KyberSwap and Jumper, which means users on those platforms can route cross-chain without ever thinking about which bridge they’re using. Mayan also powers Wormhole’s own Portal Swap product.

The chains Mayan operates across include Ethereum and Solana as anchor networks, with expansion to MegaETH and Monad on the roadmap.

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