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Send crypto to the person standing next to you. No wallet addresses. No copy and paste.

Discover NearbyHow it works
  • No addresses.
  • No copy and paste.
  • Just the person.

Crypto can move anywhere in the world in seconds.
But sending it to the person standing next to you still feels like using a fax machine.

  1. Ask for their address
  2. Copy it
  3. Paste it
  4. Ask which network
  5. Check the token
  6. Double-check the address
  7. Send
  8. Hope

0x8F3a7C21d9E4b6A05c1F92e7B3d84aC6e0F19b2D

Find the person.

Enter the amount.

Confirm.

The address is still there — underneath, where it belongs. You just never have to handle it.

Tap a person.
Send crypto.

Open Nearby and see the people around you who are ready to receive. Tap the person you want to pay, enter the amount, confirm. Their wallet address and receiving preferences stay in the background.

Nearby

Send to people around you.

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Nearby

Get paid by people around you.

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Ready to receiveOff
You · sending
Maya · receiving

Open Nearby.

Both people open the app and turn on nearby sending.

Tap the screen at any time to try it yourself.

Imagine owing a friend $75.

You owe Maya $75 in USDC. Today that means asking for an address, checking the network, copying, pasting and double-checking. With Nearby, it’s a tap.

ARYou
MCMayaDone
Ask for the address
Which network?
Copy
Paste
Check the chain
Check the token
Double-check
Send… and hope
Maya appears nearby
Tap Maya
$75 USDC
Confirm

That’s the whole payment flow.

The blockchain still handles settlement. The experience just feels more like AirDrop than a blockchain transaction.

The person should be the interface. The wallet address should be infrastructure.

Who →The person in front of you
What →An asset and an amount
ConfirmOne clear review
What you think about
Address0x8F3a…9b2D
Networkfrom preferences
Routeprepared
Transactionsigned · settled
What Nearby handles

The complexity doesn’t disappear.

It moves to where it belongs: the infrastructure. The best consumer products hide the machinery without hiding what matters — and before you sign, you still see exactly who, what and how much.

Being close is context.

A restaurant table. A coworker. Someone at an event. Physical proximity already tells you who you mean. Instead of naming a payment destination with a string of characters, Nearby lets you choose the person in front of you.

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    Dinner

    A friend across the table.

    The bill arrives. You owe your half. They’re right there — no need to ask for anything but the amount.

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    Work

    A coworker at the next desk.

    Coffee run, team lunch, a shared gift. The person is a few feet away and already known to you.

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    Events

    Someone you just met.

    A conference, a meetup, a show. You know their face and their name — not their wallet.

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    Markets

    A stall at the market.

    The person selling is standing behind the table. Pay them the way you’d hand over cash.

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    Second-hand

    Picking up something you bought.

    You meet the seller, see the item, and pay on the spot — to the person you’re actually dealing with.

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    Groups

    Splitting the bill.

    One person paid. Everyone else at the table pays them back — each choosing the same person.

Four ideas Nearby
is built on.

People, not addresses.

Choose the person you intend to pay instead of manually handling their wallet address. The address still exists — Nearby looks it up, so you don’t have to.

Preferences, not network decisions.

Recipients configure what they can receive ahead of time. The app uses those preferences to prepare an appropriate payment route — so nobody has to ask, “which network?”

Confirmation, not blind trust.

Before anything is signed, the sender reviews the recipient, the asset and the amount on one screen — and can still cancel.

Blockchain settlement, not blockchain friction.

The payment still settles on-chain, with a transaction to show for it. The blockchain simply stops being the user interface.

Proximity is context.
Not proof.

Nearby uses closeness to help you find the right person. It never treats closeness as a guarantee of who someone is. The decision stays with you, on a screen you can read.

  1. You see who you’re paying before you sign.
  2. You review the asset and amount — and can cancel before signing.
  3. Being nearby is never treated as proof of identity.
  4. Your wallet details aren’t broadcast to the devices around you.
  5. Status is reported as it is. Nothing changes after you confirm.
Read the security principles →

Nearby is in development. These are the principles the app is being designed around — not a claim of an audit or certification.

From Nearby
to everywhere.

Proximity is the starting point. The same sending experience could, in time, reach further — wherever choosing a person is more natural than handling a string of characters. None of these exist yet; they’re where the idea could go.

NowSomeone next to youSplit billsPayment requestsOne-tap receiving profilesTrusted contactsPeer-to-peer paymentsEvent paymentsMerchant checkoutIn-person commerce

Someone is standing next to you. You want to send them crypto.

There shouldn’t be a tutorial. There shouldn’t be a wallet-address exchange. There shouldn’t be a conversation about which chain to use.

There should be a button.

Crypto already moves globally.

Nearby makes it feel local.

— AirDrop for crypto.

Follow the build(opens X in a new tab)How it works
  1. Tap.
  2. Send.
  3. Confirm.
  4. Done.