Flutterwave Selects Polygon as Its Default Blockchain for Cross-Border Payments

Flutterwave, Africa’s largest payments infrastructure provider, has selected Polygon as its default blockchain for a new cross-border payments product. The partnership will enable instant, low-cost stablecoin payments for global companies like Uber and Audiomack across 30+ African countries.

Key Ideas

Traditional cross-border payments in Africa are slow and expensive—fees often exceed 8% and settlement takes days.
Polygon’s blockchain offers near-instant settlement and sub-cent fees, solving these pain points.

Why It Matters?

The project is one of the largest real-world stablecoin deployments in emerging markets which supports financial inclusion by making payments faster, cheaper and more transparent. It also reinforces Polygon’s role as a global payments infrastructure, already powering apps like Stripe, BlackRock’s BUIDL Fund, and Polymarket.