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mesh

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Mesh

  • Name: Mesh
  • URL: https://www.meshpay.com/
  • Category: Crypto payments network / exchange-wallet connectivity / embedded transfer infrastructure
  • Summary: Mesh is hosted account-connectivity and transfer orchestration, not a new payment rail. It lets apps wrap pay, deposit, and verify flows around accounts users already hold elsewhere while Mesh handles the annoying parts: login and MFA flow, integration discovery, session setup, transfer tracking, and webhook truth.
  • What it does:
    • Provides Mesh Link SDKs for web, iOS, Android, React Native, and Flutter so apps can embed exchange and wallet connection flows inside their own product
    • Starts each user session with a short-lived, single-use Link Token created server-side, which encodes transfer type, destination, asset/network constraints, and other session parameters
    • Supports three main flows: Pay, Deposit, and Verify
    • Exposes backend APIs for supported integrations, supported networks and tokens, balances or portfolios, and managed transfer initiation or tracking
    • Lets integrators save managed-account tokens for return-user flows so later sessions can skip full re-authentication
    • Uses webhooks rather than client callbacks as the final source of truth for transfer completion
  • Key claims:
    • Mesh markets itself as the first global crypto payments network, but the docs read more concretely as a hosted connectivity and transfer-orchestration layer spanning wallets, exchanges, and merchant-facing payment flows
    • The docs’ integration model is explicit: server creates a Link Token, client launches the SDK, callbacks report user-side events, and signed webhooks carry final transfer state for backend settlement logic
    • Link Tokens are short-lived and single-use, which makes session configuration and transfer policy a real operator surface rather than just a UI detail
    • The current support matrix is broad but specific: the marketing site says 300+ supported platforms, while the support reference currently lists 24 networks, 18 stablecoins, 225 wallet integrations, and 7 major exchange integrations
    • Mesh Managed Tokens matter because they turn a one-time account connection into reusable offchain authorization state for later one-tap or two-tap flows
    • SmartFunding is one of the more important product wrinkles: it lets a user complete a payment from assets they already hold, even when the merchant wants settlement in a different token

Internal linkages

  • walletconnect-pay — closest upward read for wallet-connected payment packaging
  • open-payments — stronger protocol contrast when account addressing and payment authorization are kept separate from hosted connectivity

Control surface

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