Bitnob has launched Bitnob Enterprise, a non-custodial infrastructure stack, and upgraded Bitnob Business to support treasury workflows and APIs.
Bitnob has expanded its infrastructure platform with two paths for businesses building payment and wallet products.
First is Bitnob Enterprise, which the company describes as non-custodial. Non-custodial means the customer controls the funds and the โkeysโ (like holding your own vault combination), while using Bitnobโs tools to run wallets, payments, treasury operations, and other services.
Second is the next generation of Bitnob Business, which is a managed setup. Managed means Bitnob handles more of the underlying complexity, including parts of the blockchain infrastructure (the backend network used to move and record crypto and stablecoin transactions), while customers use APIs and dashboards to launch products.
Bitnob says the same underlying infrastructure powers both offerings. Over the last five years, it has built modules for wallets as a service, collections, payouts, virtual cards, swaps (converting one asset to another), and stablecoin settlement. The company said more than $4.5 billion has moved through its infrastructure.
Many African and other emerging market businesses deal with currency volatility, limited access to dollars, slow settlement, and fragmented payment networks. Infrastructure providers like Bitnob sell โrailsโ, meaning the plumbing that lets fintechs and enterprises move money, manage balances, and automate payouts across markets.
The split between managed and non-custodial options matters for compliance and risk. Regulated institutions often want more control over custody architecture, while startups may prefer a managed path to ship faster.
The timing also tracks a wider shift toward stablecoins for cross-border payments. Stablecoins are crypto tokens designed to track the value of a currency like the US dollar, which can make international transfers cheaper and faster in some corridors.
Primary Source: Disrupt Africa
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