With USDC, EdenFi is expanding financial access for Africans and the diaspora to save, send and spend with digital dollars. Learn more.
Across Africa, people move faster than their money. Sending funds across borders can take days when they are needed in hours. Opening a bank account is often blocked by economic, geographic or personal challenges. And remittances—vital lifelines from family abroad—lose value to high fees before they ever reach home.
EdenFi was built to give Africans and the global diaspora a better way to save, send, and spend using digital dollars powered by USDC.
EdenFi’s smart wallet removes the barriers that have long kept people from accessing blockchain-based finance. With features like social logins, gas abstraction, and EdenFi tags, users can open a wallet in seconds—no seed phrases, no crypto jargon, no technical hurdles. Once inside, they can hold, send, and withdraw USDC, a digital dollar issued by regulated affiliates of Circle, directly into local currencies such as naira, shillings, or rand. What once required multiple intermediaries, days of waiting, and steep conversion fees now happens near-instantly.
“We’re here to make global finance local for everyone,” says Ezra Akran, CEO of EdenFi. “One of the most important ways we do that is to make Web3 feel invisible to the consumer. People shouldn’t need to understand blockchain to benefit from it.”
Powered by USDC, built on trust
For EdenFi’s users, trust in financial currencies, tools, and systems is paramount. Many have experienced severe economic instability that has cast doubt on the value of, or their ability to, reliably manage wealth. That’s why EdenFi chose Circle’s USDC as its foundation—a stablecoin fully backed highly liquid cash and cash equivalent assets and issued by regulated affiliates of Circle.
“USDC is the bridge that makes our mission possible,” says Ezra. “It gives users a digital dollar they can actually trust—and that’s everything.”
In addition to cross-border payments EdenFi’s infrastructure will eventually support future savings products, giving users a predictable, transparent way to grow and manage their money.
“When people can save, send, and spend with confidence—without friction or fear—you unlock human potential,” says Elisabeth Carpenter, Circle’s Chief Strategic Engagement Officer. “What EdenFi is doing across Africa with USDC shows how technology can serve people, not just systems.”
Inclusion and utility equals impact
EdenFi’s success is already translating to meaningful human impact. One good example is a graphic designer in Lagos who struggled for years to get paid by international clients. Through EdenFi, he now receives his earnings near-instantly in USDC, held securely in his own wallet. When he needs local currency, he converts to naira within minutes. No waiting, no middlemen, no lost value. This is what financial empowerment looks like—simple, fast, and fair.
“For many of our users, this is the first time money feels like it’s working for them,” Ezra says. “That’s how inclusion becomes real.”
At its core, EdenFi’s mission is about restoring agency—helping people take control of their finances, their futures, and their opportunities.
Financial empowerment isn’t abstract,” says Elisabeth. “It’s a mother in Nairobi paying school fees on time, a freelancer in Lagos getting paid fairly and expediently, or a student in Addis saving safely in digital dollars. That’s the real impact—and that’s why Circle exists.”
By combining the USDC with localized execution, EdenFi is proving that technology can create not only markets, but momentum toward a financially active and inclusive society.
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