Global commerce has gone borderless. Payments haven’t. Businesses operating across Africa and emerging markets still lose days to settlement delays, margin to FX spreads, and momentum to banking hours that stop at Friday close. Flutterwave’s stablecoin infrastructure was built for exactly this.
It combines digital currencies such as dollar-backed USDC, USDT, and RLUSD with Flutterwave’s established payment rails, giving you faster settlement and more control over liquidity without your teams needing to be crypto experts or changing how recipients receive money.
By beta-testing with a select group of merchants and watching how digital dollars move in the wild, we’ve been able to uncover real operational nuances to refine our logic for final payments and simplify the experience for first-time users.
While we are not mentioning specific brand names yet, here is a look at the top use cases we are seeing on Flutterwave right now.
Faster & Cheaper Cross-Border Payments
Traditional international transfers are slow because they pass through too many intermediaries. We are seeing partners fund their balances with digital dollars to deliver local currency directly to recipients as a standard, much faster, domestic bank transfer.
Protecting Margins from FX Costs
High conversion fees and shifting exchange rates can quietly eat into profits. Instead of losing money during every conversion, businesses are automatically settling and holding earnings in digital dollars on their Flutterwave dashboard to deploy funds only when the timing is right.
Borderless Payments for Consumers
With Send App by Flutterwave, consumers can use stablecoins for everyday payments while merchants still receive local bank transfers. This removes the hassle of setting up cards that work across different countries and currencies.
Get the Full Story
In this latest StableRails edition, we dive deeper into the specific stablecoin use cases we are seeing on Flutterwave right now. By combining dollar-backed stablecoins such as USDC, USDT, and RLUSD with our established fiat rails, we are building a modern money movement infrastructure that keeps local delivery simple and familiar.
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