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 ...