Non-custodial by design

Stridge is a routing engine, not a wallet. It moves money between chains and assets; it does not store it.

The Routing Engine

When a deposit is confirmed, the Routing Engine picks a route — swap, bridge, or both — and settles the funds to the destination you configured. A deposit is only ever passing through: it is detected, routed, and delivered. Stridge runs no balance accounts, so there is no product surface on which funds sit and wait.

What "non-custodial" means here

• No balances to hold. Stridge does not run customer accounts or wallets you top up. Every deposit produces a settlement to your destination — there is nothing left on Stridge to withdraw later.
• You set the destination. Funds can only land where you configured — the UDA destination registered when the address was created. Stridge cannot point a settlement somewhere else.
• Automated routing. Settlement runs through vetted providers with no manual step where funds wait on an operator's decision.
• Auditable. Every settlement is a fetchable record carrying the source deposit transaction and the destination transaction — see Settlements.

Why it matters

A custodial platform is a honeypot: a pool of pooled user funds is the thing attackers target and regulators scrutinise. Stridge removes the pool. Because money is only ever passing through, there is no balance to drain and no account to take over.

The short version: Stridge doesn't keep your money.

Next

• Key management — how the in-flight signing keys are protected.
• Universal Deposit Addresses — the settlement model the Routing Engine runs.
• Settlements — the canonical record of each routed deposit.