Everything for businesses building on crypto—payments, conversions, and how to get paid.
Discussions about stablecoin payment infrastructure currently focus on six layers: licensing, onboarding, custody, funding, distribution, and conversion. Paxos has set the standard model that many in the industry follow, with companies like Circle and BVNK...
When you search for “how to accept crypto donations,” you usually get the same advice: register a nonprofit, create a gift acceptance policy, identify your donors, and manage tax and reporting requirements. This is helpful...
Your freelancer didn’t choose their bank. You chose how you’d pay them, and that choice decides whether they’re stuck with high fees, long delays, and a verification wall before a single payment lands. Take the...
IvoryPay built its name around a straightforward use case: an African business could accept crypto from a client, then cash out in Naira or Cedis. Its website now pitches a broader operation, from helping businesses...
Getting paid in crypto as a startup usually goes one of two ways: the payment clears cleanly, or you spend the next hour figuring out why it showed up late, short, or on a network...
Most “best crypto payment processors” roundups show you familiar names: BitPay, CoinGate, Coinbase Commerce, all promising to simplify how your business accepts crypto. Those processors work well enough for a US or EU company. For...
A cross-border payment on SWIFT, the rail most African businesses still rely on, takes one to three days and can lose $20 to $50 to intermediary banks along the way. The same value moved...
If you’re comparing stablecoin payment gateways, you’re probably trying to: Get naira or cedis landing in your bank account, not a stablecoin balance you have to convert and off-ramp yourself. Accept stablecoins like USDT and...
Paying a team in stablecoins looks like one task. In Africa, it’s two: paying and cashing out. Sending USDC to a contractor is the easy part. The hard part, the part that decides whether the...
Sending money into or out of Africa costs you. A wire abroad eats 6% to 8% in fees and FX spread, then takes days to land. Sit on cash in Naira or Cedis instead, and...
A Nigerian importer sending $10,000 to an overseas supplier today has two very different payment rails available: SWIFT and stablecoin rails. SWIFT costs $25 to $50 in fees, adds a 2% to 5% FX spread,...
A Lagos business takes a USDT payment on Monday. By Wednesday, when it finally converts to naira, the rate has moved enough to eat the margin on the sale. That two-day gap is the difference...
