AfriCoin makes cryptocurrency frictionless and easy to adopt for every African; uniting the continent through one digital currency tied to your phone number. One Africa. One Economy. One Coin.
AfriCoin is a pan-African stablecoin built to unite the continent’s economies under one digital currency. It enables seamless cross-border transactions and local trade through phone-number-based wallets, making cryptocurrency frictionless and easy to adopt for every African with a mobile phone.
How It Works
When users register via PWA or USSD, AfriCoin automatically creates a wallet linked to their phone number. Sending money is as easy as entering a recipient’s number and confirming with a PIN, or saying, “Send 50 AfriCoins to my mother in Kenya,” with our multilingual voice assistant.
Top-Up System
Users can top up AfriCoin seamlessly via local bank accounts or mobile money (e.g., M-Pesa, MTN MoMo, Opay). For those without smartphones, a simple USSD option lets them fund and manage their wallets, while verified agents enable cash-based top-ups in underserved areas.
Core Features
- Phone-number-based wallet system
- Voice-enabled multilingual assistant
- PWA-first mobile experience
- PIN-secured wallet access
- Real-time fiat-to-AfriCoin conversion
- USSD access for non-smartphone users
Inclusivity at the Core
AfriCoin celebrates Africa’s diversity with multilingual access across major local languages — Yoruba, Swahili, Hausa, French, and more. Its inclusive design ensures everyone, from city dwellers to rural traders, can transact effortlessly and participate in Africa’s unified digital economy.
Beyond transactions, AfriCoin’s vision is to evolve into a community-driven financial ecosystem governed by the AfriCoin DAO - where Africans collectively shape economic inclusion, innovation, and stability across the continent.
Vision
To power a borderless African economy with one currency that’s simple, inclusive, and accessible to all; removing the friction of fragmented national currencies and enabling instant, low-cost transfers across the continent.
AfriCoin - one Africa, one economy, one coin.
AfriCoin is purpose-built for the Africa Blockchain Festival Hack Challenge powered by HackQuest: a live opportunity to prototype a unified digital currency for Africa, combining blockchain and AI to address the continent’s multi-currency fragmentation.