Blockchain, Crypto & Web3 in Africa

6 blockchain, crypto & web3 providers across Africa, publishing 4 APIs.

6 providers 4 published APIs 51 indexed documents

Blockchain, Crypto & Web3 across Africa — 6 providers on the APIs.io network sit in both cohorts, and between them they publish 4 indexed APIs.

4 of the 6 publish at least one machine-readable API; 2 publish nothing indexed at all. That split is the first thing worth reading here — a vertical can be well represented in a market and still have almost no programmable surface.

By Kin Score band: 2 developing, 2 thin, and 2 minimal.

Leading by rating: Afriex, NALA, Nestcoin, PayFast, Chipper Cash, and Ejara.

Region membership is derived from three explicit signals — a provider tag, a provider-name pattern, or a stated headquarters in the provider’s own description. This is a map of stated headquarters, not of markets served.

Providers (6)

Provider Description APIs Rating
Afriex Afriex is a cross-border payments and remittance company that moves money between Africa, North America, Europe and Asia. Its consumer app handles person-to-person remittances, ... 1 developing
NALA NALA is a fintech building cross-border payments infrastructure for emerging markets. Its consumer app is an international money-transfer and multi-currency account used to send... 1 developing
Nestcoin Nestcoin is an African fintech company building Onboard, a digital-money platform and crypto exchange for on/off-ramping between fiat and crypto. Its developer product, Onboard ... 1 thin
PayFast South African payment gateway providing REST APIs for online payment processing, subscription billing, tokenized recurring card payments, onsite checkout, QR code payments, inst... 1 thin
Chipper Cash Chipper Cash is a pan-African fintech (legal entities Critical Ideas, Inc. and Voyse Technologies US, Inc.) operating a mobile-first cross-border money transfer, digital payment... 0 minimal
Ejara Ejara is a Cameroon-based, regulated fintech platform giving people across Francophone Africa and its diaspora access to digital savings and investment products through a mobile... 0 minimal

Indexed API documents (51)

Two numbers, both real: these providers publish 4 APIs as their own documents, which the catalog indexes split one-per-resource into 51 documents.

Afriex MCP Server

Afriex publishes a hosted, remote Model Context Protocol server at https://mcp.afriex.com/mcp that exposes 26 tools covering the Business...

Afriex Balance API

View and top up your business wallet balances.

Afriex Checkout Sessions API

Create hosted checkout sessions.

Afriex Customers API

Create and manage your customers.

Afriex Media API

Generate presigned URLs for secure file uploads.

Afriex Payment Methods API

Register and resolve customer payout and collection methods.

Afriex Rates API

Fetch real-time exchange rates.

Afriex SME Registration API

The SME Registration API from Afriex — 2 operation(s) for sme registration.

Afriex Transactions API

Create and track deposits, withdrawals, and swaps.

Afriex Webhooks API

Webhook event payloads and sandbox webhook testing.

NALA Bank API

The Bank API from NALA — 1 operation(s) for bank.

NALA Lookup API

The Lookup API from NALA — 1 operation(s) for lookup.

NALA Payment Account API

The Payment Account API from NALA — 1 operation(s) for payment account.

NALA Payout API

The Payout API from NALA — 2 operation(s) for payout.

NALA Wallet API

The Wallet API from NALA — 1 operation(s) for wallet.

Nestcoin Auth OAUTH API

The auth-oauth API from Nestcoin — 2 operation(s) for auth-oauth.

Nestcoin Auth Userauth API

The auth-userauth API from Nestcoin — 3 operation(s) for auth-userauth.

Nestcoin Exchange External API

The exchange-external-api API from Nestcoin — 13 operation(s) for exchange-external-api.

Nestcoin Exchange Orders API

The exchange-orders API from Nestcoin — 1 operation(s) for exchange-orders.

Nestcoin ledger-account activity API

The ledger-account activity API from Nestcoin — 5 operation(s) for ledger-account activity.

Nestcoin Ledger Accounts API

The ledger-accounts API from Nestcoin — 5 operation(s) for ledger-accounts.

Nestcoin Ledger Beneficiaries API

The ledger-beneficiaries API from Nestcoin — 4 operation(s) for ledger-beneficiaries.

Nestcoin ledger-cash deposits API

The ledger-cash deposits API from Nestcoin — 5 operation(s) for ledger-cash deposits.

Nestcoin ledger-offramp accounts API

The ledger-offramp accounts API from Nestcoin — 4 operation(s) for ledger-offramp accounts.

Nestcoin Ledger Payments API

The ledger-payments API from Nestcoin — 5 operation(s) for ledger-payments.

Nestcoin Ledger Sub Accounts API

The ledger-sub-accounts API from Nestcoin — 4 operation(s) for ledger-sub-accounts.

Nestcoin Ledger Transfer API

The ledger-transfer API from Nestcoin — 4 operation(s) for ledger-transfer.

Nestcoin Offers Offers API

The offers-offers API from Nestcoin — 3 operation(s) for offers-offers.

Nestcoin Offers Onboardapi API

The offers-onboardapi API from Nestcoin — 2 operation(s) for offers-onboardapi.

Nestcoin Orders Orders API

The orders-orders API from Nestcoin — 5 operation(s) for orders-orders.

Nestcoin Orders Quotes API

The orders-quotes API from Nestcoin — 3 operation(s) for orders-quotes.

Nestcoin Payment Methods Users API

The payment-methods-users API from Nestcoin — 1 operation(s) for payment-methods-users.

Nestcoin Transactions Offramp API

The transactions-offramp API from Nestcoin — 4 operation(s) for transactions-offramp.

Nestcoin Transactions Onboardapi API

The transactions-onboardapi API from Nestcoin — 4 operation(s) for transactions-onboardapi.

Nestcoin Transactions Onramp API

The transactions-onramp API from Nestcoin — 3 operation(s) for transactions-onramp.

Nestcoin Transactions Transactions API

The transactions-transactions API from Nestcoin — 4 operation(s) for transactions-transactions.

Nestcoin Users Onboardapi API

Endpoints available to for merchants liquidity automation

Nestcoin Users Users API

User related endpoints

PayFast Subscriptions API

REST API for managing recurring billing subscriptions, including fetching subscription details, pausing, unpausing, cancelling, updating ...

PayFast Tokenization API

REST API for managing tokenized recurring card payment agreements, allowing merchants to charge customers at future dates and amounts wit...

PayFast Transaction History API

REST API for querying merchant transaction history with support for date range queries, daily summaries, weekly aggregations, and monthly...

PayFast Credit Card Transactions API

REST API for querying individual credit card transaction details by transaction ID, giving merchants programmatic access to card payment ...

PayFast Refunds API

REST API for merchants to initiate and track refunds on completed transactions, specifying refund amount, reason, and account type for di...

PayFast Credit Card Transactions API

Query individual credit card transaction details

PayFast Notifications API

Validate ITN (Instant Transaction Notification) webhooks

PayFast Onsite Checkout API

Generate payment identifiers for embedded (onsite) checkout flows

PayFast Payment Form API

Standard redirect-based payment form integration

PayFast Refunds API

Initiate and track refunds on completed transactions

PayFast Subscriptions API

Manage recurring billing subscription agreements

PayFast Tokenization API

Manage tokenized card payment agreements (adhoc charges)

PayFast Transaction History API

Query merchant transaction history with date range and aggregations

Other industries in Africa

Financial Technology 86 Payments & Money Movement 71 Financial Services 30 E-Commerce Platform 29 Banking & Open Banking 22 Supply Chain & Procurement 21 Logistics 16 Mobility & Fleet 16 Retail 14 Accounting & Finance Operations 11 Artificial Intelligence 11 Human Resources & Payroll 9 All of Africa →

Blockchain, Crypto & Web3 elsewhere

North America 65 Europe 36 Latin America 19 United Kingdom & Ireland 15 Southeast Asia 11 India & South Asia 9 DACH (Germany · Austria · Switzerland) 8 Japan & Korea 8 France & Iberia 7 Greater China 7 Middle East 5 Australia & New Zealand 3 All of Blockchain, Crypto & Web3 →

This page is the intersection of two independently computed cohorts: Africa and Blockchain, Crypto & Web3. A provider appears here only when it is already a member of both. Africa membership is matched on tag, name pattern, stated HQ, so this is a floor rather than a census — coverage gaps show up here as small numbers, not as absent pages.

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