Ecosystem Update - July 2025
Alex Popescu and David Hunt-Mateo
Jul 22, 2025
5 min.
Greetings, Request Network community!
Welcome to the Request Network ecosystem update for July 2025.
The Ecosystem Update highlights Request Network Foundation’s latest progress and showcases API advancements for payments, invoicing, and onchain tracking.
Tech update
Recurring Payments: Subscriptions and Payouts Now Live 🚀
July marked a major milestone with the launch of our highly anticipated Recurring Payments feature, unlocking crypto-native subscriptions and automated payouts for the Request Network ecosystem.
Whats New
Subscriptions Made Simple: Create subscription-like payments that execute automatically on the blockchain. With a single EIP-712 signature from the payer, businesses can now set up recurring revenue streams that run on autopilot - whether daily, monthly, quarterly, or annually.
Automated Recurring Payouts: Perfect for payroll, bounties, or supplier payments. Set the schedule once, and payments execute automatically at specified intervals with full on-chain transparency.
Enterprise-Grade Security: Built on non-custodial smart contracts with multiple security layers:
Signature-protected payments with EIP-712 verification
Immutable recipient addresses and fixed payment amounts
Strict sequential payment ordering and timing enforcement
Payment limits enforced at the smart contract level
Technical Implementation
The feature supports all ERC20 currencies across 7 networks (Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Gnosis, Base, BSC, and Sepolia). The system automatically handles:
Token allowance management for the recurring payment contract
Automated payment triggering at scheduled intervals
Real-time webhook notifications for
payment.confirmedandpayment.failedeventsComprehensive status tracking and failure recovery
Note: While the API supports all networks, the EasyInvoice demo app currently offers recurring payments on Sepolia only, with support for FAU, USDC, and USDT tokens.
Use Cases in Action
Subscription Revenue: SaaS platforms can now collect membership fees on-chain with predictable recurring revenue
DAO Funding: Decentralized organizations can automate budget distributions to working groups
Membership Platforms: NFT communities and premium content hubs can collect dues seamlessly
Demo Videos:
Learn more in our Recurring Payments documentation →
Enhanced API Portal: Test Webhooks & Self-Service Production Keys 🔧
We've significantly improved the Request Network API Portal to give developers more control and better testing capabilities.
New Test Webhook Feature
Developers can now test their webhook integrations directly from the API Portal without creating actual payments. Simply select an event type (like payment.confirmed or payment.failed) and send a test webhook to verify your endpoint is working correctly. Each test webhook includes:
Proper signature verification with your webhook secret
A special
x-request-network-test: trueheader to identify test eventsMock payload data matching real webhook structures
Clarified API Key Access
We've improved the API key creation flow to make it crystal clear what developers can access:
Self-Service Production Keys: App builders can now generate production API keys immediately - no approval needed! These keys provide full access to all Request Network API features.
Live Crypto-to-Fiat Environment: The only feature requiring manual approval is access to the live crypto-to-fiat payment environment (which involves real bank transfers). Users without this permission see no crypto-to-fiat options in their key creation flow.
Users without access to Live Crypto-to-fiat won’t see any options when creating API keys.
Users with access to Live Crypto-to-fiat will see this simplified interface for creating API keys.
Users will see this warning dialog when creating API keys with access to Live Crypto-to-Fiat.
New Currency Conversion Routes Endpoint 🌐
We've added a powerful new API endpoint to help developers discover conversion payment possibilities:
GET /v2/currencies/{currencyId}/conversion-routes
This endpoint returns a list of all currencies that can be converted from a specified currency for conversion payments, where requests are denominated in one currency (like USD) but paid in another currency (like USDC or DAI) using on-chain price feeds.
Perfect for:
Building conversion payment interfaces that show available stablecoin options for fiat-denominated requests
Validating conversion paths before creating USD/EUR requests that will be paid in crypto
Supporting multi-currency payment flows for conversion payments
Example: Query conversion routes for USD to see all supported stablecoins that can be used to pay USD-denominated requests across all networks, or filter by specific network.
View the full API specification →
GitBook LLM Integration: AI-Ready Documentation
Request Network documentation is now optimized for AI and LLM consumption thanks to GitBook's new LLM-ready docs feature.
Access Options:
Documentation index: https://docs.request.network/llms.txt - A comprehensive index of all available pages with URLs and titles, making it easy for LLMs to discover and navigate documentation content
Complete documentation: https://docs.request.network/llms-full.txt - The full content of all Request Network documentation in a single file that can be passed directly to LLMs as context
Individual markdown pages: https://docs.request.network/request-network-api/recurring-payments.md - Any documentation page can be accessed as a markdown file by adding .md extension for efficient LLM processing
Page groups: https://docs.request.network/request-network-api.md - Grouped documentation sections available as structured markdown content
This makes it easier than ever for developers to get AI assistance with Request Network integration questions, as AI models can now efficiently access and understand our complete documentation set through these optimized formats.
What’s Next
We're actively researching new approaches to enhance privacy and user experience in crypto payments, exploring cutting-edge solutions that could reshape how businesses handle digital transactions. Stay tuned for exciting developments on the horizon.
Highlights from July
The Accountant Quits now accepts stablecoin payments via Request Network API
The Accountant Quits, a leading voice in Web3 accounting education, has integrated stablecoin payments into the checkout of its Crypto Accounting Academy using the Request Network API. Accountants can now enroll and settle the fee directly in stablecoins.
This step not only makes education more accessible for crypto-native accountants but also shows how easy it is for any business to accept stablecoin payments.
To help others, The Accountant Quits shared a video walkthrough of the integration process so builders can replicate it for their own products or services.
Video: Accept crypto payments at checkout via Request Network API
By sharing the process, The Accountant Quits offers a blueprint for low-code, cost-efficient stablecoin payments that any business can adopt.
Best Ecosystem Project
Congratulations to 0Finance, the winner of Best Ecosystem Project for Q2 2025, as voted by the community of REQ holders. Along with the recognition, they’ve received a $1,000 prize in REQ for their contribution to the Request Network ecosystem.
0Finance’s “Solo” is a USD business account for solopreneurs that blends banking with automation. It offers AI-powered bookkeeping, seamless USD payments, and yield on idle funds. With the Request Network API, they add automatic onchain tracking of payments and invoices for smarter financial management.
Each quarter, the governance process highlights projects pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with Request Network. Q2’s recognition of 0dotFinance is a testament to the growing creativity and momentum in the ecosystem.
Join the community of builders shaping the future of Web3 payments and compete for Q3’s prize by connecting with us on Discord.
Best Pull Request Initiative
The governance has once again voted the value of community contributions. In Q2, the Best Pull Request Initiative award goes to Piji (@pclaesen) for his improvements to EasyInvoice, the demo tool encapsulating Request Network's API capabilities.
The prize comes with a $500 reward in REQ, but the real impact lies in making Request Network’s open-source infrastructure stronger and more user-friendly. Contributions like these ensure that builders and businesses relying on Request Network benefit from continuous improvements driven by the community.
July protocol metrics
The above visual shows the approximate payment volume in USD and the number of payments (wallet-to-wallet transfers, with or without a created request) for July 2025.
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We inspire and educate developers, partners, and authorities to use Request Network and build an open-source, seamless, and interoperable financial ecosystem.
We’re building a network that connects businesses worldwide, giving them ways to do business at the speed of the internet.
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