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We can't lose your money. We never hold it.

Most payment risk comes from one place: a processor holding your funds. PYMSTR is built so that never happens. Money settles straight to your own wallet, you hold the keys, and we control no contract. The safest pot of money is the one that does not exist.

//The modelnon-custodial by design

The risk we engineered out.

01

We never hold your money

Payments settle straight from the customer wallet to your wallet in a single on-chain transaction. PYMSTR never receives, holds, routes, or controls the funds. There is no balance on our side to freeze, delay, or lose.

02

Nothing to drain

Custodial processors pool merchant money in their own wallets, which is exactly what has cost the industry hundreds of millions in hacks. We engineered that risk out: there is no pot of customer money here, so there is nothing for an attacker to take.

03

No keys, no switches

PYMSTR controls no contract. No admin key, no pause, no blacklist, no redirect. The most we can do is reject a payment that does not match the recipients and amounts you configured.

04

A bug cannot move your funds

Because the customer wallet signs the exact, validated transfers, a software error on our side cannot move or lose money. The worst case is a payment that does not go through, which is simply retried.

//Built on audited public standards3 layers

The entire on-chain path is public code we did not write, each piece independently audited. There is no PYMSTR smart contract in the flow to trust or to break.

ERC-4337 account abstraction

The smart-account standard the customer wallet runs on. The on-chain EntryPoint enforces that only the buyer-signed transfers execute.

Audited by OpenZeppelin, Certora, ChainSecurity

Pimlico ERC-20 paymaster

Lets the customer pay gas in the stablecoin itself. It cannot drain the account or redirect funds.

Audited by OpenZeppelin, Quantstamp

USDC and USDT token contracts

The stablecoins themselves, issued and maintained by Circle and Tether.

Audited by Circle, Tether (public attestations)
//Platform security6 controls

The layer around the rail.

Signed webhooks

Every webhook is signed with HMAC-SHA256 (X-Pymstr-Signature) and carries a timestamp with a 5-minute tolerance, so you can verify it came from us and reject replays.

Scoped API keys

API keys support IP allowlisting and are rate limited. A leaked key is constrained to the addresses you approve.

Hardened sessions

Sessions live in Redis with sliding expiry, tokens are kept in memory rather than local storage, and repeated failed logins lock the address out.

Locked wallet address

Once your smart-wallet address is set it cannot be changed, which closes off account-takeover by address swap.

Minimal data

We hold no funds and minimal data. Webhook payloads are reconstructed on demand from the payment record rather than stored.

Verify everything on-chain

Every payment carries its on-chain transaction hash, so you can independently confirm what happened against a public ledger.

//Wallet access and recoveryself-custodial

The keys are theirs, not ours.

A customer signs in with their normal Google, Apple, or email login and a wallet is created for them automatically through Web3Auth, split into key shares that PYMSTR never holds. We cannot touch the funds, and recovery never depends on us.

  • With MFA enabled, the customer can recover their wallet with no dependency on PYMSTR or Web3Auth.
  • Customers can bring their own wallet instead, such as MetaMask or a hardware wallet.
  • Merchants can route funds straight to their own custody, for example Gnosis Safe or Fireblocks, so the money never rests in a PYMSTR-created wallet at all.
//You keep control of complianceyour rules, your data

PYMSTR is payment infrastructure, not a processor that handles your customers' money. You hold the relationship with your customers, so screening stays with you, and we make that practical: every payment carries its on-chain transaction hash, so you can screen the payer with your own provider (Chainalysis, Elliptic, TRM) on your own rules, before or after payment.

How that responsibility is allocated is set out in the Merchant Agreement. For the architecture behind all of this, see how non-custodial works.

//Security questions6 answers

Straight
answers.
No hand-waving.

No. PYMSTR is non-custodial infrastructure. The customer wallet signs the payment and the funds move directly to your wallet on-chain. We never take possession or control of the money at any point.
Nothing, because we hold none of it. The insurance and breach risk a custodial processor carries exists to cover a pool of client funds. There is no such pool here, so there is nothing to steal from us and nothing for that kind of cover to protect. We took the risk off the table rather than insuring it.
Everything in the on-chain path is a public standard we did not write, each independently audited: ERC-4337 (OpenZeppelin, Certora, ChainSecurity), the Pimlico paymaster (OpenZeppelin, Quantstamp), and the USDC and USDT contracts (Circle and Tether attestations). There is no PYMSTR smart contract to audit, by design. Security comes from the architecture, not from a contract we ask you to trust.
No. The customer wallet signs the exact recipients and amounts, and the on-chain EntryPoint enforces them. A backend error cannot alter, redirect, or seize a transfer. The worst case is a payment that fails and is retried.
Customer wallets are created through a normal Google, Apple, or email login (Web3Auth) and split into key shares that PYMSTR never holds. With MFA enabled, the customer can recover with no dependency on PYMSTR or Web3Auth. Customers can also bring their own wallet such as MetaMask. And you can route funds straight to your own custody (for example Gnosis Safe or Fireblocks) so they never sit in a PYMSTR wallet at all.
You are, by design, because you are the party with the customer relationship. As non-custodial infrastructure we never touch funds, so screening sits with you. We give you what you need to do it: every payment carries the on-chain transaction hash, so you can screen the payer with your own provider (Chainalysis, Elliptic, TRM) on your own rules.

The safest money is the one we never touch.

Non-custodial. Stable-in, stable-out. Funds settle directly to your wallet on-chain, in seconds. Add it next to your card processor and start accepting in minutes.