Diaspora payments, delivered

Money that arrives as what it was meant for.

School fees paid. Hospital bills settled. ayobi lets the African diaspora pay the school or the hospital back home directly — in seconds, verifiable on-chain, with no middleman between your money and its purpose.

Brussels → Dar es Salaam · every step verifiable on-chain
The problem

Billions are sent home. Too much never becomes what it was sent for.

Every year, Africans living abroad send tens of billions of euros to their families — more than all foreign aid to Africa combined. It pays for school fees, hospital bills, food and housing.

But between the sender and the school stand collection agents, transfer fees and paperwork. Money meant for tuition gets diverted by the person collecting it. Recipients without valid ID documents can't collect at all.

Middlemen divert funds The person collecting the cash decides where it really goes.
Fees eat the transfer Legacy transfer corridors take a cut at every step.
No ID, no money Expired or missing identity documents block collection entirely.
How it works

One payment. One corridor. No detours.

Follow a single payment from a bank account in Belgium to a school in Tanzania. The rule that makes it work: value can only leave the system through a registered service provider — never as cash through a middleman.

Brussels · sender

Buy ayobi euros

Amara tops up with her bank card. €100 becomes 100 aEUR — a euro-pegged token, minted 1:1 against her payment.

mint · ref PSP-2026-0847 · on-chain
In transit · seconds

Send it home directly

She sends 100 aEUR straight to her brother Juma's ayobi address in Dar es Salaam. No agent, no counter, no waiting days.

transfer · confirmed in seconds · on-chain
Dar es Salaam · recipient

Pay the school, not a stranger

Juma pays Mwananchi Secondary School from his phone, approving the payment with his face. The tokens can't be cashed out by anyone else — the school is the only possible destination.

payment · biometric approval · on-chain
Dar es Salaam · school

The school receives shillings

The school redeems its aEUR and receives Tanzanian shillings on its own account. It never has to touch or understand crypto — it simply gets paid.

settlement · TZS payout · on-chain proof
Digital identity

No papers? You still have a payment identity.

Millions can't collect money because their ID documents are missing or expired. ayobi issues a digital identity — photo and personal details — right from the app.

The credential's fingerprint is anchored in the smart contract, so any provider can verify it instantly.
Personal data and photos never touch the blockchain — only the cryptographic hash does.
Tamper with the details and the verification fails, visibly.

An ayobi ID is a platform credential for paying and receiving within ayobi — not a government document.

ayobi. ID
Digital identity
credential
ID number
AID-2026-4F81C2
Full name
Juma Hassani
Date of birth
12 Mar 1994
Nationality
Tanzanian
✓ anchored on-chain · 0x87bdb4d53258…
Why ayobi

Built so the money can't go missing.

Purpose-locked by design

Tokens can only be redeemed by registered service providers — schools, hospitals, utilities. There is no cash-out path for a middleman, because the smart contract doesn't have one.

Every step verifiable

Purchase, transfer, payment and settlement each leave an on-chain record. Senders see exactly where their money went — with proof, not promises.

Identity-first compliance

Every account is verified before it can hold value; KYC and AML rules are enforced in the contract itself. Built by a team with a decade of biometric identity work across Africa, including national election systems.

Where we are today

Working demo live at demo.ayobi.org — the full corridor, end to end, on a test network with simulated bank connections.

Regulatory track in progress. A euro-pegged token in the EU falls under MiCA, and Tanzania is finalising its digital-asset framework. We are building toward those rules, not around them — talk to us if you're a payout partner, provider network or regulator.

See a payment cross the corridor yourself.

The live demo walks you through the whole journey — buy, send, pay a school, settle in shillings — in about two minutes. No account needed.