# CPayant

> Facilitating International Trade & Payments Within Africa!

CPayant helps users make cross-border payments within Africa by using blockchain infrastructure to reduce transaction times and costs.

CPayant helps individuals and businesses in Africa send and receive money across borders through blockchain infrastructure. Users can fund wallets using bank transfers, mobile phone credit, or payment cards and make peer-to-peer payments with biometric security. The platform targets intra-African cross-border transactions while supporting payments between Africa and other continents.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Payments
- Status: Announced
- Founded: 2021-12-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/cpayant

## Products

- [CPayant Payment Platform](https://thegrid.id/profiles/cpayant): CPayant Payment Platform provides peer-to-peer cross-border payment services across Africa using Celo blockchain infrastructure. The platform supports both smartphone users through mobile and web applications, and feature phone users through USSD access. The system uses cUSD stablecoin for transactions and includes biometric wallet security. (Peer to Peer & Remittance, Early access, Main Product)

## Links

- [Main](https://cpayant.com)
- [Blog](https://cpayant.com/blogs)
- [Terms of Service](https://cpayant.com/terms-of-use)
- [Privacy policy](https://cpayant.com/privacy-policy)
- [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/CPayantMobile)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cpayant)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/cpayantmobile)
- [Telegram](https://t.me/cpayant)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/cpayantmobile)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCibnCKniMpIrFSuaEyBzpqQ)

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