Nairobi pilot · Early access This is a design review concept — not a live exchange. EN / SW
Nairobi first · built for Africa

Buy crypto in shillings. Built in Nairobi, for Africa.

A clearer way to buy, sell and hold crypto — with prices in Kenyan shillings, costs shown before you commit, and security you can actually see.

No deposit to look around. We never ask for your password or recovery phrase.

Prices lead in KES M-PESA · Airtel · MTN Passkey sign-in Fees shown up front
Buy & Sell Sample rates · not a live quote
KES
Sample rate—
Trading fee (1.0% example)—
Mobile-money fee (example)—
You receive (approx.)—

Illustrative figures for layout review. No money moves here. Real rates are set and locked by the server at the moment you confirm.

How it works

Your first shilling of crypto, in three steps.

Designed so a first-timer understands the whole journey before committing a single shilling.

1

Create your account

Sign in with a passkey — no password to steal or forget. Verify your identity once, as Kenyan rules require.

2

Add shillings

Top up from M-PESA, Airtel Money or MTN. You see the exact fee and what lands before you send.

3

Buy, hold or cash out

Buy BTC, ETH or USDC in one tap, hold safely, and withdraw back to mobile money whenever you want.

Market watch

Prices in your currency, not someone else's.

Every price leads in Kenyan shillings. The figures below are labelled sample values for this review — live prices come from the exchange engine, never the page.

₿
Bitcoin
BTC
KES 10,650,000
Sample value · per 1 BTC
Ξ
Ethereum
ETH
KES 345,000
Sample value · per 1 ETH
$
USD Coin
USDC
KES 129
Sample value · per 1 USDC
Security at the front, not the footnote

Built so a mistake can't cost you everything.

These are the controls the production build is designed around. They describe how the system behaves — not a claim that today's live site already does all of this.

Passkey sign-in

Log in with your device's face or fingerprint. There's no password to phish, leak or reuse — with a recovery path for a lost phone.

Withdrawal review

Before any withdrawal you see the exact destination, network and amount. Change any of them and the approval resets — no silent swaps.

See every session

A live list of the devices signed in to your account, with one tap to sign out anything you don't recognise.

Server-side control

Whether a transaction is allowed is decided on our servers, never in your browser. Keys and balances never live on the page.

Africa Crypto will never ask for your password or recovery phrase.

Not by call, SMS, WhatsApp or email. Anyone who does is trying to scam you — stop, and report it to our support team.

Trust Centre

We'd rather show you the truth than a badge.

Most exchanges paste "100% verified" with nothing behind it. We show each trust item with its real status — verified, in progress, or not yet published — and never claim what we can't prove.

Operating company & licenceThe legal entity you contract with and its Kenyan authorisation status
Owner: Company legal
In progress
Proof of reservesIndependent, dated attestation that customer assets are backed 1:1
Owner: Finance + auditor
Not yet published
Security reviewExternal penetration test and code review, with scope and date
Owner: Engineering
Not yet published
Privacy & data protectionHow your data is used and held, with a named Kenyan data-protection contact
Owner: Data protection
Draft under review

Each row links to the underlying document once published, with its date and scope. A reserve snapshot is not a blanket guarantee of safety — it is one dated piece of evidence among several. This panel is wired to show live status; the states shown here are placeholders for the review.

Made for Kenya

Starts in Nairobi. Speaks your rails, your shilling, your language.

We chose Nairobi as the first market and built the whole journey around how Kenyans already move money — not a template bolted on from somewhere else.

MM-PESA AAirtel Money MMTN MoMo ₸KES deposits
  • English and Kiswahili across the real interface — not a decorative switch.
  • Costs shown in shillings: deposit fee, trading fee, network fee and withdrawal fee, itemised.
  • Built and tested on everyday Android phones and patchy connections.
  • Local support you can reach — not a login page pretending to be help.
Example: top up from M-PESA
You send (M-PESA)KES 10,000
Deposit fee (example)KES 60
Settles to your balanceKES 9,940
Typical settlement~2 min

Example figures and timing for layout review. Real fees, limits and settlement come from the payment partners once integrations are confirmed.

Learn & share

Understand it first. Then tell a friend.

Plain-language guides written for first-timers — each one shareable to WhatsApp or X in a tap, because in Kenya trust travels by word of mouth.

BASICS

What is crypto, really?

A five-minute, jargon-free explainer — what it is, what it isn't, and the honest risks before you put in a shilling.

SAFETY

Spot a crypto scam

The five lines every scammer uses in Kenya, and the one rule that keeps your money safe: never share your recovery phrase.

MONEY

Fees, explained in shillings

Exactly what you pay to deposit, trade and withdraw — with a worked example from M-PESA to BTC and back.

Straight answers

The questions a careful person asks first.

No. This is a design review concept for the Nairobi pilot. Nothing here moves real money, and the numbers shown are labelled sample values. A live build requires confirmed payment integrations and verified compliance evidence first.

Every cost is shown in shillings before you confirm: the deposit fee, the trading fee, any network fee and the withdrawal fee. The figures in this concept are examples to show the layout — the real schedule is set once partners and pricing are confirmed.

We won't claim it is until we can show it. The Trust Centre lists each piece of evidence — operating entity, proof of reserves, security review — with its real status. Where something isn't published yet, we say so rather than paste a badge.

The Nairobi pilot is designed around M-PESA, Airtel Money and MTN MoMo, with KES deposits. Exact rails, limits and settlement times are confirmed with each payment partner before launch.

Authorisation status is shown — honestly — in the Trust Centre as it progresses. We won't describe the pilot as officially approved until that evidence is in place and dated.

Nairobi pilot · early access

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