Use cases

Pulse sits between your product and the money rails it needs. You keep your customers and your brand. Pulse connects the banks, liquidity partners, and networks underneath, and finds the best price for every order.

1. A fragmented market

   • Nigerian banks
   • Liquidity partners
   • USDT and USDC
   • Eight networks

3. Pulse

   Connects every rail and picks the best route for each order

5. Your product

   Your brand, your customers, your fee

Why it matters

Nigeria is one of the largest stablecoin markets in the world. Many of your customers already hold stablecoins.

Nigerians use crypto

26M

of Nigerian crypto users hold USDT, and 48% hold USDC

59%

of sub-Saharan Africa's stablecoin inflows since 2019 went to Nigeria

60%

Sources: Yellow Card via AllAfrica, BVNK Stablecoin Utility Report 2026, IMF, June 2026.

That demand sits in a fragmented market. The same dollar lives on many networks and in more than one stablecoin. Every liquidity partner quotes its own rate, and every bank has its own limits and failure modes. With Pulse you serve these customers inside your own product and earn on the flow. Without it, that flow goes to an exchange or an OTC desk.

What Pulse does

Most providers give you one desk's rate on one network and leave the rest to you. Pulse is an orchestration engine that gives the local market access to DeFi, starting with stablecoins. It runs the whole flow behind one API.

• Best execution on every order

  Pulse prices every liquidity partner and picks the route that delivers the most after fees

• The accounts your product needs

  Naira accounts per order or for life, and permanent stablecoin addresses on every network

• Operations your team can run

  An update at every step, and a console for orders, reconciliation, and access

• Revenue on your flow

  Your own partner fee on every order, with every payout shown in the console

Pulse also verifies bank account names before it pays out naira. It holds a bad deposit with a reason instead of settling it. Every new partner, network, or bank we add improves your routes, with no change to your code.

Find your use case

Every integration also includes route optimisation and the partner console. Bitcoin and gold, credit and savings, treasury, and your own rails are on the roadmap.

About Shiga

Shiga builds blockchain financial infrastructure for Africa, so that Africans own and define the rails. Pulse is one of our two products. The other is Enta, a self-custody wallet for people and businesses, and Enta runs on Pulse.

We optimise the rails inside Africa. African companies can then use on-chain banking rails in the products they already run: collections, payouts, savings, credit, treasury, and point of sale.

We do not issue a currency, run a blockchain, or take custody of client funds as principal. Our clients keep their customers. We coordinate the banks, liquidity partners, and networks underneath, and every step is visible to you.

Shiga is a Tether portfolio company. Tether issues USDT, the stablecoin most held in Nigeria.

• Built on the issuer's technology. Our stack runs on Tether's wallet and payments technology.
• Early access. New tools from Tether can reach Pulse partners early.
• A partner on the ground. We work with Tether to bring stablecoin tools, events, and support to builders in Nigeria.