Kotani Pay: A novel Technology enabling Financial Inclusivity for The African continent
We started Kotani Pay with the vision of accelerating the connection of these individuals to the Celo blockchain. Kotani Pay is a middleware technology platform that enables users to easily connect to the blockchain. The service is especially useful to those with feature phones and low-end smartphones as it does not require internet connectivity. Instead, Kotani Pay utilizes Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) to offer access to the Celo blockchain. It creates a bridge between blockchain technology and the traditional payments space aptly created by conventional financial technology services. In a nutshell, KotaniPay creates an on-ramp system to blockchain technology and offers an off-ramp to traditional finance, all this by utilizing a USSD layer.
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