Bridge took 18 hours to disburse tens of thousands of aid payments
Zach Abrams · Stablecoin special: Zach Abrams (Bridge) and Henri Stern (Privy) · Nov 4, 2025 · at 37:05
Zach Abrams, co-founder of Bridge, discusses the throughput bottlenecks and high failure rates encountered when processing batch transactions on general-purpose blockchains.
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“First time we did an aid payment disbursement, we were working with the US government to disperse aid payments into LATAM. We were sending tens of thousands of payments, which was like a lot for us. It's not that much for Stripe. It took us like 18 hours to send all of those transactions.”
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