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When we started building crypto cards, we knew the feature itself would be hard. What we didn’t know was that the paperwork would almost…
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,...
On Sunday, August 2, Breet played a friendly football match against some random company called Cardtonic. We beat the hell out of them; the score was 2–0. Some football analysts may argue that 2–0 does...
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...
If crypto already moves through your business, AML compliance stopped being optional. Nigeria’s Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022 pulled crypto operators into the financial-institution net, and the CBN’s 2026 VASP supervision pilot made...
A customer in London is ready to buy from your Lagos store. Their card fails at checkout, so they ask, “Can I pay with USDT?” If the answer is no, you did not lose a...
Most businesses treat Nigeria’s payment problems as one broken system to either endure or wait out. That is the expensive mistake. The problems are not equal, and they do not share a fix. Some are...
When a fintech’s roadmap stalls, the standard fix is to hire. Post the senior engineer req, poach a payments specialist, and maybe re-architect the database while you are at it. It feels like progress. It...
