EXTRA SAFE, a privacy-first encrypted messenger with a built-in self-custodial stablecoin wallet, is entering beta.
As an early-access tester, you'll get a hands-on look at the messenger's built-in wallet: a first feel for how money moves right inside a chat, and how it reaches contacts across multiple chains.

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This post covers what you'll actually get to try, why we built it in collaboration with Avalanche, and how to get into the beta.

A First Look at What's Coming

For the first time, a messenger does natively what used to live only in dedicated crypto apps. Here's what that looks like, and where it's headed:

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  Send tokenized dollars inside a chat. Money moves right inside the conversation you're already having — sent to a contact and arriving almost instantly, like any other thing you'd share in a chat.

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  Pay gas in the token you hold. The network fee settles in the stablecoin you send — for example, USD₮. These transfers run on UGTP (Universal Gateway Transaction Platform), which settles the fee in the selected token, screens every transfer for safety before signing, and handles cross-chain routing.

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  Send the token your contact wants, even if you hold a different one. You might hold USD₮ on Avalanche while your contact wants a token on another chain. You send, they receive what they asked for, and the routing across chains is found and run underneath. Available across supported networks: Avalanche as the default, plus Ethereum, Polygon, BNB Chain, Base, Optimism, and Arbitrum.

The beta is an early build — a minimal version where the goal is to test the concept behind all of this: how money lives and moves natively inside a chat. You'll get a hands-on glimpse of that experience while we shape the full feature set toward launch.

Why Avalanche Is the Default Blockchain

A payment in a chat has to flow naturally, like the conversation itself. Avalanche, as the default blockchain, makes this possible:

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  Sub-second finality — a transfer confirms in under a second, so money lands at the pace of the message that carries it.

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  Low, predictable fees — the cost of a send stays small.

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  EVM-compatible — built on the same standard as Ethereum and other major networks, which keeps EXTRA SAFE interoperable with the wider world of tokenized dollars.

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  Built for consumer volume — the capacity to carry real, everyday usage at scale.

Ava Labs and EXTRA SAFE collaborate with a shared view of where the next users come from: not crypto-native corners, but everyday apps people already use. The networks fade into the background of a familiar experience, and Avalanche plays the key role here.

How the Beta Runs and What Your Feedback Shapes

Testers selected for the program get access to a build with features that aren't live yet, and they try them in a live environment. Each selected tester goes hands-on with the features in a short, guided session with EXTRA SAFE’s product manager, who sets everything up so it can be tried end-to-end.

We want to hear everything, even the small things: whether you trusted the screen enough to hit send the first time, whether the fee in USD₮ read clearly, or made you pause. Tell us what worked well and what made you hesitate. Your notes become real tickets for engineers and shape how EXTRA SAFE looks and works when it goes live and reaches everyone.

How to Get Into the Beta

Leave your application on the closed beta page at extrasafe.chat. We'll contact you with an invite if you’re selected. The closed beta opens in June 2026, with full production in July.

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