Introducing Turbo Relayer: Up to 22x Faster Transactions, 10x Lower Gas Overhead

Turbo Relayer delivers sub-300ms transaction confirmations and reduces gas overhead by 30 to 90%. In benchmark testing, this translates to execution up to 22x faster and up to 10x more gas efficient than existing relay implementations.

TL;DR

• Fast execution: Sub-300ms confirmations on supported fast chains. Up to 22x faster execution in benchmarks.

• Lower gas overhead: 30 to 90% reduction, with the largest savings on EIP-7702 execution paths.

• Standards support: Optimized for EIP-7702 with full ERC-4337 compatibility.

• In production: Used by Kraken Ink, Gemini Wallet, Rainbow Wallet, Avantis, Infinex, GMX, LiFi, Jumper, Chaos Labs, Everclear, Gnosis Pay, IM Token, and Safe.

• Availability: Accessible through the existing Gelato Relay API. No migration required.

• Get started: Get an API key or talk to our team.

Why We Built Turbo

Gasless UX is now standard for wallets and consumer applications, but the underlying execution infrastructure has lagged behind. 

Account abstraction has improved onboarding and flexibility, but most gasless flows still feel slow in practice. The standard gasless flow requires multiple round trips: send a transaction, receive a hash, poll for a receipt, then confirm. On most chains, that process takes one to five seconds.

This latency creates user churn in onboarding and adds costly friction to high-frequency actions like trading and payments. ERC-4337's onchain validation compounds the problem, introducing additional onchain overhead increasing infrastructure costs.

These constraints are visible in production today: lower conversion rates, higher infrastructure costs, and a UX gap between onchain applications and the modern software users compare them to.

Turbo Relayer introduces a new execution architecture for next-generation account abstraction, while remaining compatible with existing integrations.

What Turbo Changes

Turbo Relayer improves speed and cost efficiency through three core changes.

Faster confirmations

On supported fast chains, Turbo eliminates the polling phase and returns transaction receipts in as little as 300ms.

Traditional flow: Send transaction → receive hash → poll for receipt → confirm (1–5 seconds)
Turbo flow: Send tx → receive receipt immediately (0.3 seconds)

The lowest latencies are achieved on chains with short block times or Flashblocks-style execution. On chains with 50ms block times, regional deployment can achieve 120-220ms end-to-end receipt latency.

Applications can show confirmed results immediately, reduce intermediate loading states, and simplify any flow that depends on transaction completion.

Lower gas overhead with EIP-7702, plus ERC-4337 compatibility

Turbo supports both ERC-4337 and EIP-7702 execution paths, allowing ERC-4337 integrations to continue working without modification.

When used with EIP-7702, Turbo avoids EntryPoint-based validation and reduces gas overhead by 30 to 90%, depending on configuration. This provides a clear efficiency path as EIP-7702 adoption increases.

Event-driven transaction status

Turbo supports webhook-based transaction status updates across key transaction stages, pushing real-time notifications: transaction received, submitted, confirmed, and finalized.

Backend systems can respond to execution results in real time without custom polling infrastructure.

Built on Gelato’s Production Infrastructure

Turbo Relayer is the next generation of Gelato’s relay infrastructure that powers gasless transactions across 100+ EVM chains for Gemini Wallet, has processed over $3.7 billion in gasless perpetual volume for Avantis, and serves teams like Kraken Ink and GMX at scale.

• 4+ years in production

• 99.99% uptime

• Global routing with MEV-safe relaying where available

• Post-execution billing for accurate gas settlement

What Turbo Enables

Lower latency and predictable execution make new product flows practical at scale.

Examples include:

• Wallet onboarding flows that progress immediately after the first transaction

• High-frequency interactions like trading and payments without intermediate loading states

• Cross-chain intents that depend on confirmed state before downstream execution

• Programmable compliance with transaction screening for institutional workflows

• Event-triggered workflows such as post-transaction callbacks, whitelist validation, and pipeline orchestration

Turbo provides the execution characteristics needed to support these flows reliably.

Who Turbo is for

Turbo Relayer is designed for teams where execution performance directly impacts user experience and cost structure.

• Wallets and fintech applications delivering gasless UX across chains

• High-volume DeFi applications with frequent user interactions

• Chains and ecosystems optimized for fast block times that require infrastructure that matches their performance

Get started

Turbo Relayer is available through the existing Gelato Relay API.

Existing Relay users benefit automatically where supported. New users can integrate quickly using our standard Relay integration flow.

Get an API key or talk to our team.