Ecosystem Update - August 2025
Alex Popescu
Oct 3, 2025
4 min.
Greetings, Request Network community!
Welcome to the Ecosystem Update for August 2025, a regular overview of the Request Network Foundation’s progress, featuring the latest developments in crypto payments, invoicing, and onchain tracking through our API.
This edition includes a featured invitation to join Web3 Accountant Meet right before TOKEN2049 Singapore and connect with Tristan Wallaert and the Request Network team.
Before we start, if you want help to integrate today, don't hesitate to book a call with Mariana or Quentin.
TECH UPDATES
August was about making it easier for teams to integrate crypto payments through the Request Network API. We focused on reducing integration time, smoothing out the EasyInvoice reference app, and strengthening reliability.
EasyInvoice as a reference implementation
EasyInvoice isn’t just a tool, it’s a living demo of how the API can be used in production-like conditions. In August, we refined it in two ways:
Logged-in users now see their name and email pre-filled in invoice creation, a small change that ensures consistency between account metadata and invoices.
Invalid invoice or payment links now surface a 404 page with guiding links for clear next steps, instead of an error wall.
Updated 404 page.
Reliability improvements where it counts
Teams integrating crypto payments at scale need predictable behavior across wallets, networks, and routing. This month we:
Introduced centralized, retry-capable network switching with a public utility, making it easier for apps to recover swiftly from transient network mismatches.
Added auto wallet and network switching before direct, batch, and recurring payments, plus normalized recipient addresses for subscription plans.
Fixed an issue where the routes endpoint could sometimes return a route on the wrong chain name. Now, suggestions from GET /v2/request/{requestId}/routes are strictly aligned with the payer’s network context.
The routes endpoint reporting the wrong chain name has been fixed.
Community contributions
Open source contributions played a direct role in August:
Direct payment chain check was submitted by Envoy-VC. EasyInvoice now checks the chain before starting a direct payment, fixing a first-attempt failure some developers encountered.
Resilience was improved thanks to Envoy as well, with a new retry-capable network switching utility. Previously, if a wallet or network mismatch occurred, apps could get stuck or require manual intervention.
Now, EasyInvoice (and any app using the utility) can automatically check, retry, and recover from a failed switch without breaking the flow. Alongside this, invoice submission is now asynchronous with clearer button states and success handling, so developers can model feedback and errors more reliably in their own apps.
Thank you, Envoy and Request Network community, for your contributions in August!
Research in progress
Overall, in August, the development team focused on strategic research initiatives exploring future possibilities. While these efforts didn't yield immediate user-facing features, they've laid important groundwork for exciting developments in the future.
Two areas were explored:
Request Network Accounts. Investigating account primitives that could unify identity and permissions across invoicing and payments.
Private payments. Ongoing research on privacy-preserving payment flows is focused on compliance and operational feasibility.
These are research tracks only; they may or may not become features.
Join us at TOKEN2049 Singapore
Web3 is rewriting finance and accounting. Join us at the "Web3 Accountant Meet” right before TOKEN2049 to learn the latest developments and what builders are talking about in boardrooms this year:
How companies can accept crypto payments
The questions investors, auditors, and tax authorities are asking in 2025
How real-time, on-chain subledgers are transforming financial operations
Gain timely insights and interact with a panel of experts:
Tristan Wallaert, Head of Ecosystem at Request Network
Matthew Lovatt - Tax partner, Deloitte Singapore
Sharon Lourdes Paul - Co-founder at Gnosis HQ,
Punit Agarwal - CEO at Koinex
Date: Tuesday, September 30
Time: 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Location: ISCA House, Singapore
Limited seats.
If you build or work with finance or crypto, secure your spot now.
About Request Network
At Request Network Foundation, our mission is to enable businesses to move crypto easily, create invoices, accept crypto payments, and reconcile them directly on-chain without custodial intermediaries.
By offering reliable detection, we make crypto payments easy to issue, track, and reconcile.
With just one API, you get access to a complete crypto payment toolset, including invoicing and advanced payment types such as crosschain, recurring, batch, and partial payments.
You can integrate our API in less than a day, covering 25 chains, without the need of an RPC.
