Currencies & Payment Methods

The Caliza platform focuses on global money transfers using stablecoins and supports a wide variety of fiat currencies and payment methods for deposits, transfers, and withdrawals.

Most executions on the platform require an initial conversion to USDC, which serves as the operational base.

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Flexibility in Funding Methods

The API uses the concept of payment rails to specify how the system moves money. You can specify a funding_method in a simulation call to indicate that a deposit initiates the transaction (for example, sending Ethereum). The absence of a funding_method implies that the platform uses funds already held (such as USDC or USDT).

Supported Currencies

Stablecoins

Stablecoins serve as the primary operational currencies on the Caliza platform. Most deposits are converted to USDC immediately, except for USDT, which is convertible to USDC.

Fiat Currencies

Caliza supports multiple fiat currencies for transactions. The table below lists the supported currencies:

Payment Rails

In Caliza, payment rails are the mechanisms through which money moves. This includes both traditional fiat payment methods and blockchain networks.

Traditional Payment Rails

SWIFT Country Support

Caliza supports SWIFT transfers to countries worldwide. The API accepts ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes for SWIFT transactions, which include all countries that participate in the SWIFT network.

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SWIFT Country Support

Caliza supports SWIFT transfers to all countries that participate in the SWIFT network. When creating a recipient for a SWIFT transfer, you'll need to provide the target country using its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (e.g., US for United States, GB for United Kingdom, DE for Germany).

The API accepts all standard ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes, enabling transfers to virtually any country that supports SWIFT transactions. For the full list of supported country codes, see the Supported countries list on the Countries page.

Blockchain Payment Rails

In Caliza, blockchain networks are treated as payment rails. When you specify a blockchain as a payment rail (e.g., ETH, POLYGON, TRON, STELLAR, BASE, SOLANA), you're indicating that the transaction will be processed through that specific blockchain network.

The table below lists the supported blockchain networks and their canonical identifiers:

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Using Canonical Identifiers

Use the canonical identifier when specifying a blockchain payment rail for transactions or when matching logs/events. For example, use ETH for Ethereum, POLYGON for Polygon, and SOLANA for Solana.

Currency and Payment Rail Combinations

The following table shows common currency and payment rail combinations used in Caliza:

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