Everything for businesses building on crypto—payments, conversions, and how to get paid.
If you’re raising for a fintech in Africa, you’ve learned that “top VC” lists waste your time. They hand you six famous names with no contact, no stage, and no way to tell who still...
Your customers are already using stablecoins and crypto. The only question is whether they do it through you or around you. For most financial institutions in Africa, the instinct to wait comes down to one...
For years, building anything with crypto in Nigeria meant operating in a grey zone, reading regulatory tea leaves, and hoping the rules would land somewhere survivable. That uncertainty was the single biggest tax on innovation...
Ask most bank executives about offering crypto-enabled services, and you hit the same wall: “We’d have to build a whole crypto division, hire engineers we don’t have, and own risks we don’t understand.” So the...
The hardest part of fintech product development is rarely deciding what to build. Most fintech companies already know what their customers want. Based on our work with fintech teams across Africa, the pattern is consistent:...
One to five working days. That is how long your bank takes to clear a dollar payment while your supplier waits, your inventory sits, and a meaningful slice of what you earned quietly disappears in...
Building a crypto-compliant fintech in Nigeria opens up real advantages, from inclusive payment infrastructure to Web3 integration. But the upside only holds if you get the regulation right. A non-compliant platform risks heavy sanctions and...
If you run a cross-border payment company in Nigeria, you already know the job goes well beyond moving money across borders. It means managing correspondent banking relationships that can shift without warning, working within CBN...
If someone told you five years ago that Nigerian businesses would be receiving payments through stablecoins, settling invoices with digital assets, and using stablecoins to protect against currency volatility, you might have laughed. Today, that’s...
A customer wants to pay you in USDT, and you freeze. Most businesses we talk to do one of two things: turn the customer away, or wing it through a risky informal P2P deal. Neither...
For years, businesses dealing with crypto and digital assets in Nigeria operated without clear legal guidance. The industry was growing, and people were using crypto every day, but the laws had not fully recognized or...
Key Takeaways International payment fees in Nigeria can consume 3 – 15% of a transaction’s value, depending on the route and provider. Sub-Saharan Africa is the most expensive region in the world to send money...
