Rise

Companies hiring freelancers and contractors across borders face a tangle of currencies, compliance requirements, and payment delays. Rise provides an end-to-end solution by handling contracts, invoices, KYC/AML verification, and payouts for contractors in 190+ countries - all from a single platform. Teams can set one-time, milestone-based, or recurring payment schedules and workers receive funds in their local currency or chosen cryptocurrency directly to their Rise wallet with no intermediaries involved.

For companies that hold treasury in stablecoins or operate in Web3, traditional payroll tools simply don't fit. Rise supports funding payroll in stablecoins while giving each worker the freedom to withdraw in local currency or 100+ cryptocurrencies. This makes Rise the natural infrastructure layer for crypto-native businesses such as DAOs, Web3 gaming studios, and DeFi protocols that need to pay teams in a way that matches how their treasury actually works.

When a company wants to hire a full-time employee in a foreign country but doesn't want to set up a local legal entity, Rise's EOR service steps in as the legal employer of record - managing local labor law compliance, tax documentation, and benefits like health and travel insurance. As seen with customers like Routefusion, Rise can cut down what used to take weeks of legal and HR legwork to under 24 hours of onboarding.

Finance teams juggling spreadsheets, manual wire transfers, and reconciliation headaches across multiple vendors use Rise to consolidate the entire payroll stack in one place. The platform automates payment routing, compliance checks, and reporting, making it audit-ready by design. With SOC 2 Type II certification and built-in role-based access controls, finance leads get a clean, auditable record of every transaction without the manual overhead.

Decentralized autonomous organizations have unique payroll challenges: contributors are pseudonymous, global, and often prefer to be paid onchain. Rise's smart contract infrastructure, built on Arbitrum, handles contributor payouts programmatically with funds governed by onchain rules rather than a central administrator. The Rise ID acts as each contributor's portable onchain identity and wallet, making it easy to onboard new contributors and pay them compliantly without a traditional HR stack.

Companies that pre-fund payroll often leave significant capital sitting idle waiting for disbursement. Powered by Aave on Arbitrum, Rise Earn allows businesses to put those funds to work by earning stablecoin yield directly inside the platform without needing to manage DeFi complexity or move money off-platform. This can turn a cost center into a modest revenue stream, giving finance teams a return on capital that would otherwise sit dormant between pay cycles.