Why Use a Managed Facilitator?

You could run your own facilitator. You could also run your own Ethereum node. Most people use Alchemy instead.

What it takes to self-host

Running a facilitator means operating a production blockchain service:

Concern	What’s involved
Infrastructure	Deploy and maintain a Rust binary, handle TLS, uptime monitoring, auto-restart
Signer key management	Generate keys, store them securely, rotate periodically, handle compromise scenarios
Nonce coordination	Multiple concurrent settlements can’t reuse nonces — requires sequencing or nonce pools
Gas funding	Facilitator wallets need ETH for gas; monitor balances, auto-fund, sweep excess
RPC reliability	Primary RPC goes down? You need fallback RPCs with automatic failover
Scaling	More tenants = more concurrent settlements = more signers = more gas management
Rebalancing	Distribute gas across signer wallets, drain inactive ones, handle L1 data fees

What we handle

Renvoy runs all of this as a managed service:

Multi-signer pool — multiple signer wallets per instance, nonce coordination handled automatically
Automatic gas funding — we monitor balances and rebalance across signers
RPC fallback — ordered failover across multiple RPC providers
Key rotation — periodic signer key rotation with zero-downtime grace periods
Rate limiting — per-tenant RPS limits protect against abuse
Usage metering — track settlements and verifications per billing period, with prepaid credit packs for overflow
KYT (Know Your Transaction) — every settlement is screened before reaching the chain
Flashblocks — ~200ms settlement on Growth and Enterprise plans (vs ~2s standard)
Edge routing — Cloudflare Workers route requests to the nearest facilitator instance

The tradeoff

You set the price. We handle the settlement. Your server keeps full control over what to charge for, how much to charge, and who gets access. The facilitator only handles the payment mechanics. Ready to start? See Getting Started.

​What it takes to self-host

​What we handle

​The tradeoff

What it takes to self-host

What we handle

The tradeoff