Safe and compliant real-world transactions on any public blockchain

Crypto's first private decentralized payment messaging protocol for VASPs financial institutions, DeFi, and Self-hosted wallets

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Safe, Private and Compliant Transactions

Authorize transactions with confidence

The first practical approach for handling complex transaction authorizations for critical and complex real-world use cases such as e-commerce, trade, and cross-border payments settled on blockchains.

Comply with latest regulations: Comply with your regulators implementation of FATF's Travel Rule, and other regulations without compromising user privacy.
Avoid loss of customer funds: Ensure that your customers' transactions arrive at the correct destination without loss or theft of funds.
Reconciliation with real-world business processes: Record keeping for accounting, order fulfillment, and regulatory compliance purposes.
Better and more secure user experience: Replace confusing and insecure blockchain addresses with your customer's real-world counterparts.

Real-world Crypto

Transactions between people rather than cryptographic addresses

Securely and Privately connect the real-world identities of your customers and counterparties to blockchain transactions.

Safer withdrawals and deposits: Dramatically improve the safety and security of your customers' on-chain transactions
Post-trade settlement: Ensure that trading transactions on modern non-custodial exchanges are settled securely and rapidly by third-party custodian.
B2B Payments: Instantly settled cross border payments that are tied to your customers, suppliers, and invoices not opaque blockchain addresses.
E-Commerce Payments: Securely and privately share merchant, invoice, and customer information to safely enable e-commerce payments using stablecoins

Fully Open and Public Domain

Transparent and fair

The TAP protocol was designed and built as a public good.

Collaborative: Anyone can contribute to the TAP Protocol to implement new features and contribute to the standards. We provide a standard way to propose changes through TAIPs
Available to everyone: All of TAP is open source and public domain. Anyone may implement it without any restrictions or licensing agreements.
Standard Compliant: The TAP Protocol is designed to be compatible with international regulations including FATF Travel Rule. Blockchain data is supplemented with a compliant messaging layer.