In Sub-Saharan Africa, 47% of adults are unbanked. Among rural residents of The Gambia, the number is even higher. The result: individuals and aid organizations suffer.
@FreedomPayWalet is fixing that, and has already disbursed 60,000 USDC across The Gambia and Tanzania.
From wallet to world. Instantly.
USDC cash-in and cash-out at @MoneyGram across 170+ countries. No bank between.
The integration is live. https://t.co/OUrTkh1vot
#FreedomPayWallet#AidRewired
"Corruption is the problem."
A woman in The Gambia. Her words.
We built FPW to send funds direct to her phone. No chain. No gatekeeper. @MoneyGram cash-out, @StellarOrg settlement.
https://t.co/OUrTkh1vot
#FreedomPayWallet#AidRewired
For the first time, the United Nations brings its blockchain agenda inside the Louvre.
The United Nations Development Programme @UNDP โ operating across 170 countries to advance financial inclusion, reduce inequality, and address climate change โ joins Proof of Talk for two sessions on blockchain for sustainable development.
14:00: UNDP Blockchain Advisory Group, inaugural launch The formal launch of UNDP's senior advisory mechanism on blockchain for sustainable development. Closed doors.
15:45: SDG Blockchain Accelerator Impact Showcase Seven solution teams. Real-world deployments across financial inclusion, digital identity, climate resilience, and public service delivery.
The speakers holding these conversations: @AdriWischmann ยท @AndreVanyiRobin ยท Ebby Gatamu ยท Freedom Pigott ยท Junsik Sim ยท @judejbht ยท @samlambert ยท Paul K.
Wednesday, June 3. Palais du Louvre, Paris.
https://t.co/q3BI14qsUI
โจ On June 4 at @sciencespo, the conversation will move from responsible adoption in public systems to delivery in places where financial access remains hardest.
Session 2 of #ScalingBlockchainForPublicGood will focus on blockchain-based financial tools in last-mile contexts, drawing on practical deployment experience in hashtag#Haiti and hashtag#Kenya and examining what responsible implementation requires when conventional financial infrastructure is limited or compromised.
๐ Moderated by @AdaVaughan of the @StellarOrg, the discussion will bring together practitioners working on innovative finance and field-facing delivery:
๐น Jorge Fernandes, @WFPInnovation
๐น Bassel ASSAAD, @UNDP
๐น @MelynMcKay, @coalapay
๐น Alwin Tan Hee Nam, @Solanaxorg
๐น Freedom Pigott, @FreedomPayWalet
Register to attend ๐
https://t.co/D3eewQjCBy
A conversation that beats any pitch deck.
The Gambia diaspora pays some of the highest remittance fees in the region. @MoneyGram + @StellarOrg let us strip that down to a single tap.
https://t.co/OUrTkh1vot
#FreedomPayWallet#AidRewired
Field onboarding done as a community, not a queue.
USDC in. Cash out via @MoneyGram. No bank required.
Aid delivery does not need to be slow. https://t.co/OUrTkh1vot
#AidRewired#87MillionLives
@qatar_fund@RefugeesMedia An important initiative by QFFD and UNHCR, reinforcing priorities around refugee protection and stronger coordination across humanitarian partners.
Fast Stablecoin payments are not enough. The question is โcan people use it when it arrives?โ
In UN Blockchain Talks #8, we discussed stablecoins at the last mile through Mariamaโs story in The Gambia.
We are building around the realities of the last mile:: That is how stablecoins move from technology to real financial inclusion.
#FinancialInclusion #FreedomPayWallet #UNDP #Stellar #MoneyGram #USDC
โจ For Mariama, speed matters only if the money becomes usable.
In UN Blockchain Talks #8, we used the story of a fictional trader (Mariama) in The Gambia to examine #stablecoins at the last mile, and where a payment still needs to be converted, spent, trusted, and supported locally.
๐ The session looked at remittances, cash-out points, agent networks, liquidity, user protection, and the institutional delays that can leave people waiting even when faster payment tools already exist.
Read the recap and watch the recording ๐
https://t.co/eAUordkz7E
@UN_Innovation
Financial inclusion doesn't happen at conferences.
It happens here. Plastic chairs. Grass. Uganda. Women learning how digital cash reaches them directly.
No stage. No deck. Just a conversation.
https://t.co/OUrTkh1vot
#HumanitarianReset#87MillionLives
Not just a wallet. A lifeline.
That's what our team wears on the ground at every disbursement.
Technology means nothing without the people who deliver it.
https://t.co/OUrTkh23e1
#AidRewired#FreedomPayWallet
Not just a wallet. A lifeline.
Women supporting women across rural Africa. Our field team alongside partners @GambiaRedCross protecting migrant women and children.
The humanitarian reset starts with who's doing the work.
https://t.co/5C4fEn7NhR
#HumanitarianReset #87MillionLives
Money is moving on new rails. The challenge is making sure those rails reach the last mile, reliably, affordably and in ways people can actually use.
FPW Founder Freedom Pigott will be speaking at UN Blockchain Talks #8: Money's New Rails, Stablecoins and the Last Mile of Financial Inclusion.
๐ธ Money is moving on new rails, and the real challenge is ensuring those rails can reach the last mile reliably โ and in ways people can actually use.
โจ Instead of a standard panel, UN Blockchain Talks #8 is designed around a payment scenario set in a remote area.
Three speakers with very different vantage points respond to that story as it unfolds: a researcher who has done ethnographic fieldwork on blockchain in crisis zones, a founder who built and ran a live payment pilot in The Gambia and the African continent, and the person leading digital asset payments globally at Citi, and co-founded a wallet in Haiti.
Registration is open to all @UN colleagues and the broader development and digital finance community ๐
https://t.co/nu0KAzuHRP
@UN_Innovation
A cafรฉ in Ethiopia. A woman smiling.
She just realised the money goes directly to her. No middlemen. No delays.
USDC โ Stellar โ MoneyGram โ Cash in hand.
That moment never gets old. @FreedomPayWalet
https://t.co/OUrTkh1vot
#AidRewired#87MillionLives
@StellarOrg@MoneyGram@DenelleDixon Partnerships like these are good in so many ways, one being able to off-ramp digital Aid in some of the most rural regions globally ๐โค๏ธ
Her first digital wallet. A village in rural Gambia with no banks.
Her funds. Her phone. Her hands.
This is what financial inclusion actually looks like.
https://t.co/OUrTkh1vot
#HumanitarianReset#87MillionLives