Yellow Card shutters retail app to focus on stablecoin infrastructure
Yellow Card, an African cryptocurrency company founded in 2016, will end nearly a decade of retail trading services and stop serving retail customers on January 1, 2026, to focus exclusively on business-to-business stablecoin infrastructure. The company will provide stablecoin payment rails, treasury solutions and settlement infrastructure for businesses across more than 50 emerging markets. The pivot follows a year of repositioning that included securing anti-money laundering affiliation in Switzerland in June and building partnerships with Visa, Mastercard, Western Union, MoneyGram and Thunes, signaling a shift toward regulated enterprise demand for digital dollar rails.
Yellow Card will end retail trading on January 1, 2026.
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Yellow Card has been repositioning over the past year. It secured AML affiliation in Switzerland in June and built enterprise partnerships. The company may now onboard institutional clients and expand regulated cross-border settlement…
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