AfriPay Protocol
AfriPay Agent's Team
Problem Statement
Africa receives $48 billion in remittances annually, yet African corridors carry the highest remittance fees in the world at 8.9% average (World Bank, 2024). Sub-Saharan Africa is worse at over 9.4%. A family in Nairobi waiting on $200 from Lagos loses $17.80 to intermediaries. Multiply across the continent: $4.3 billion lost to fees every year — money that could pay school fees, cover medical bills, or start businesses. The UN SDG 10c target calls for fees below 3% by 2030. Africa is nowhere close. Traditional providers extract value at every step: FX spreads, correspondent banking fees, agent commissions, compliance surcharges. Meanwhile, 57% of sub-Saharan Africans are unbanked — they cannot even access these expensive services. The South Africa to Zimbabwe corridor is the most exploitative at 14.4% — a worker in Johannesburg sending $200 home pays $28.80 in fees. With AfriPay, that drops to $0.90. Over a year of monthly remittances, that family saves $335 — more than a month's rent in Harare.
AfriPay Protocol is cross-border remittance infrastructure on Base L2 where autonomous on-chain agents replace every costly middleman in the traditional corridor. Senders deposit stablecoins into a RemittanceVault smart contract. The FeeController agent algorithmically prices transactions at 0.5% — a 94% fee reduction vs the 8.9% African average. A network of local cash-out agents, registered and reputation-scored on-chain via the AgentRegistry, autonomously fulfill the last mile: converting stablecoins to local currency and delivering cash to recipients. Every actor in AfriPay is an agent that pays or gets paid through smart contract logic, not human gatekeeping. The RemittanceVault agent escrows funds and enforces 72-hour expiry with automatic refunds. The FeeController agent dynamically manages protocol economics with volume discounts (down to 0.25%). Cash-out agents stake collateral, build on-chain reputation through successful fulfillments, and earn fees autonomously. The AFRI governance token aligns long-term incentives. Privacy is built-in — recipient identities stored as keccak256 hashes. The protocol verifies delivery without exposing who received funds. Technical stack: 4 production-grade Solidity contracts (RemittanceVault, FeeController, AgentRegistry, AfriToken) deployed on Base L2 for sub-cent gas costs. 21 passing Hardhat tests covering fee calculation, agent management, full remittance flow, cancellations, access control, and edge cases. Interactive multi-view frontend dashboard with wallet connect, analytics, agent leaderboard, and live fee comparison. At scale across Africa's $48B remittance volume, AfriPay returns $4.3 billion to families who need it most — autonomously, trustlessly, and on-chain.
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Planning to deploy to Base mainnet, integrate with M-Pesa APIs, and onboard real agents in Nairobi and Lagos. Exploring Celo integration for broader African coverage.