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UsePayo

Payo

Send USDC to anyone on Telegram. No wallet needed.

Built with Stylus (Rust) on Arbitrum for the Open House NYC Buildathon

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The Problem

95% of people will never download MetaMask. Remittances cost 5-10%. Splitting bills still means Venmo—even though crypto is cheaper.

The Solution

/send @alice 50

Alice gets 50 USDC. No wallet, no seed phrase, no gas fees visible.

How It Works

  1. Send/send @user amount via Telegram or web dashboard
  2. Store — PayoVault contract holds funds mapped to keccak256("telegram:<userId>")
  3. Claim — Recipient claims via Telegram bot or phone verification
User A                    PayoVault (Stylus)              User B
  │                            │                            │
  │─── /send @userB 50 ───────▶│                            │
  │                            │── balance[hashA] -= 50     │
  │                            │── pending[tid] = {B, 50}   │
  │                            │                            │
  │                            │◀─── claim(tid) ────────────│
  │                            │── balance[hashB] += 50     │

Tech Stack

Layer Stack
Contracts Stylus (Rust) → WASM on Arbitrum Sepolia
Bot Node.js, Grammy, viem
Web Next.js 14, wagmi v3, GSAP
Design Hand-drawn UI (Kalam + Patrick Hand fonts)

Why Arbitrum + Stylus?

  • Sub-cent fees — micro-payments actually viable
  • Rust contracts — memory safety, no reentrancy footguns
  • EVM compatible — seamless USDC transferFrom
  • Production-grade — same infra trusted by BlackRock, Robinhood

Contracts (Arbitrum Sepolia)

Contract Address
PayoVault 0xab141b97c3c589b6213cc64e634bfdf4dc8e091b
TestUSDC 0x16cae166b4358fb2f15f8ddce059afbac90ab676

Features

  • Gasless UX — Relayer pays gas, users just Telegram
  • Pending transfers — Send to users who haven't registered yet
  • Wallet linking — Connect external wallet to your Telegram balance
  • Faucet — 100 tUSDC per hour for testing

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