CowrieSats
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1 fund applications (1 curated)
Bitcoin banking for any phone. Save, send, and receive Bitcoin over USSD, no smartphone or data required.
BitcoinDeveloper ToolEmerging MarketsFinancial InclusionOpen SourcePayment ai-technologyopen-infrastructure
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About
A phone service that lets anyone with any phone, even an old one with no internet, send Bitcoin, save money together with friends, and get paid, just by dialing a code, the same way you check your airtime balance.
Impact
It brings Bitcoin to people who own a phone but not a smartphone, data plan, or bank account. Families can save together safely and transparently, receive money from relatives abroad instantly, and keep full control of their own funds.
Progress
I've built escrow and group-fund smart contracts on Stacks (BlockLancer) and Rust backend infra integrated with Stacks. CowrieSats' architecture and Clarity contract design are mapped; USSD gateway integration is next.
Team
I'm a Blovkchain and Bitcoin Stacks/Clarity developer who has onboarded developer cohorts at ALX Africa and Web3Bridge Nigeria, maintain an open source project in DRIPS protocol, and completed Saving Satoshi's full Bitcoin and Lightning curriculum.
Funding
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Fund applications
| Season | Fund | Status | Applied |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 7 | LAB Open Source Builders Fund | curated | 2026-07-09 |
Season totals as displayed on the platform's public accounting — not a statement of amounts paid out. V2 = Venus sales + Venus extras. The original page also broke each season down by fund drive and showed an Available (unclaimed) balance; that level of detail survives only on the preserved snapshots.
Leaderboard page (offline): https://artizen.fyi/projects/cowriesats
Wayback: leaderboard page ↗ · Wayback: platform page ↗
Not recovered: creator, links, funding, drives, snapshot. Sources: "snapshot" = verbatim Internet Archive page · "platform metadata" = archived artizen.fund page metadata · "leaderboard" = the artizen.fyi public accounting tables · "match catalog" = the platform's public fund-matching catalog (captured 2026-10-15, generated 2026-09-07) · "community catalog" = a June 2026 platform scrape preserved in a community repo.
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