Africa-Centric Focus
Interstellar is Africa’s blockchain-powered financial infrastructure company, built from the ground up to solve the continent’s specific financial challenges: currency volatility, fragmented cross-border payments and regulatory barriers that have kept African markets running on costly, indirect routes through hard currencies.
Every product Interstellar builds — PACM, Stargate and Universal Wallet Infrastructure — is designed for African institutions first: priced, governed and operated to work within African regulatory frameworks, not retrofitted from a platform built for another market.
Proven Technology
Stargate is Interstellar’s permissioned distributed-ledger platform, in production since 2019 and the product of more than six years of research, development and market validation. It gives institutions atomic settlement with Byzantine-fault-tolerant consensus and no proof-of-work energy cost — the ledger beneath everything else Interstellar runs.
On that ledger, PACM — the PAPSS African Currency Marketplace, built with PAPSS and Afreximbank — is live today: real-time exchange and settlement between 14 African currencies across 13 active countries, with both legs of every trade settling over PAPSS and no dependency on hard currencies.
Universal Wallet Infrastructure (UWI) is Interstellar’s sovereign payment orchestration and settlement platform for tokenized deposits, stablecoins and other forms of regulated digital money — one sovereign layer an operator runs itself, connecting many participants to many payment rails and currencies, with a sandbox running in one to two weeks.
Every Interstellar platform is also built with Q-Day in mind: Interstellar’s post-quantum cryptography service takes institutions from a cryptographic readiness assessment through a controlled, tested migration, with cryptographic agility designed into Stargate and UWI from the start rather than bolted on later.
Regulatory Alignment
Interstellar works with central banks, pan-African institutions and leading financial entities to build compliance into its platforms from their architecture, not as a review that happens after the fact. That approach is approved by central banks, approved by multiple African payment service providers, compliant with international AML/KYC standards, and a participant in major regulatory sandbox environments.
On every deployment, the operator — a central bank, a national or regional switch, a commercial bank or a regulated digital-money issuer — keeps its own keys, data and operations, so regulatory accountability stays exactly where supervisors expect to find it.
Strong Partnerships
Interstellar is trusted by Africa’s leading institutions, including Afreximbank, the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System, the Central Bank of Nigeria, Interswitch, United Bank for Africa, Access Bank, Sterling Bank and GCB Bank, alongside corporates such as Kenya Airways, Qatar Airways, Dangote Cement and Airtel Africa.
Co-architected with PAPSS, an initiative of Afreximbank, PACM is the clearest evidence of what these partnerships deliver in production: a continental platform, not a pilot, driving the next generation of financial infrastructure across Africa.