NairaSats
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1 fund applications (1 curated)
Accepts Paystack payments and settles into Lightning for African merchants who want Bitcoin exposure.
BitcoinCryptoFinancePayment africa
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About
A Reference implementation for accepting Naira payments via Paystack and settling into Bitcoin Lightning through a merchant wallet. Built for African merchants who want to hold value in Bitcoin without touching crypto rails themselves
Impact
African merchants who want Bitcoin exposure face a real friction: their customers pay in local currency, and every conversion adds cost, complexity, and regulatory exposure. NairaSats is the reference pattern for accepting local payments in Bitcoin
Progress
A working prototype submitted to the LAB Open Source program and uploaded on Github
Team
I have been building similar payment rails for years
Funding
No displayed figures preserved for this project.
Fund applications
| Season | Fund | Status | Applied |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 7 | LAB Open Source Builders Fund | curated | 2026-07-18 |
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/nairasats-1
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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