CrissCross

Demand for African corridors on the Borderless.xyz network keeps growing. Platforms are paying teams across the continent. Enterprises are settling with suppliers and bringing revenue home in local currency. Stablecoins have simplified how value moves between countries, but simpler settlement doesn't make a corridor work on its own. The hard part is everything after settlement: the local rails, the licenses, the liquidity that turn a stablecoin into money someone can spend. That's what separates a corridor that works from one that merely exists.

Today, CrissCross is live on the Borderless.xyz network, and our clients' map of Africa gets meaningfully deeper. That local layer gets built country by country, by people on the ground, and CrissCross has spent years building it for businesses trading across the continent. Joining the network puts that work in front of clients around the world who need it. Pairing local depth with global demand is exactly what the network model is designed to do.

About CrissCross

CrissCross builds cross-border payment infrastructure for businesses trading in Africa: local collections, payouts, FX, and treasury management across 30+ African markets. Part of the Stitch Group, and licensed as a Money Services Business with Canada's FINTRAC, CrissCross pairs the speed of blockchain settlement with the certainty of fiat delivery.

That certainty comes from building close to the ground. CrissCross runs direct integrations into local bank networks, with multiple redundant partnerships in each market, and more than 15 mobile money operators, and that depth matters: in most African markets, mobile money is the primary banking system in many key African markets.

Global reach is easy to claim; local expertise is not. CrissCross's coverage of Francophone West and Central Africa spans eleven countries running on operators like Orange and Wave, markets where most provider networks stop at the border. And a merchant-of-record model lets businesses operate across the region, and into Egypt and the UAE, without carrying the local entity and licensing burden themselves.

One connection, the whole continent

CrissCross's corridors are now reachable by every client already settling flows through the Borderless.xyz network, with no additional build. Clients keep the single connection they already have and get a deeper Africa through it: more corridors, more payout methods, and the network routing each flow to the provider best placed to deliver it.

With CrissCross live on the Borderless Network, clients get access to: 

• Local currency collections across 30+ African markets

• Payout capabilities into local bank accounts and mobile money wallets

• Competitive FX conversion rates between African currencies and major currencies like USD, EUR and GBP

• The regulatory footprint to operate compliantly across these markets

The last mile, in practice

Take a payroll or EOR platform with contractors across the continent. Issuing the payment is the easy part. The last mile is hard, because every recipient banks differently: some into bank accounts, most into mobile money wallets. Through the network, one payout instruction pays each person into the account or wallet they actually use.

E-commerce and gaming platforms meet a different version of the same wall when they expand into Francophone West Africa, where reliable payout coverage has always been thin. With CrissCross on the network, those markets open up.

For treasury teams, the flow runs in reverse. Revenue collected across African markets, and from customers in the EU, UK, US, and Gulf states, consolidates and comes home in USD or EUR, without standing up a local entity in every market.

The same pattern extends to creators paid from abroad and NGOs disbursing program funds across the region: global demand on one side, local delivery on the other.

Growing together

CrissCross deepens corridors our clients already rely on and opens ones they've been asking for. If you're already on the Borderless.xyz network, CrissCross corridors are available now. This means no separate onboarding, no new API, no new integrationI. Every provider that joins the network extends what every customer can do. The coverage grows. The integration doesn't change.

If CrissCross’s corridors are on your roadmap, reach out to the Borderless team to get them routed for your flows.