ThisDay· 2h ago· 1 min read
Bitget Wallet, a self-custodial crypto wallet built for everyday finance, has surpassed 100 million users worldwide, with daily payment users now outnumbering traders for the first time in the company's history.
Nigeria is playing a leading role in this shift. A June 2026 International Monetary Fund report found that the country accounts for about 60 per cent of all stablecoin inflows into sub-Saharan Africa since 2019, driven overwhelmingly by households and small businesses rather than institutional trading. Between July 2023 and June 2024, Nigeria also received about $59 billion in crypto asset inflows.
According to Bitget, more than half of its users are in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa and Latin America, where the wallet increasingly functions as a stablecoin account—a place to hold dollars and receive payments rather than a venue for speculation.
The trend is being driven…
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