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Nigerian Naira on U.CASH

The Nigerian naira is the largest economy in West Africa's currency, and on U.CASH its on-chain leg is first-class: cNGN, the naira stablecoin issued under Nigeria's 2025 stablecoin framework.

Rails settle it at checkout; pegged tokens settle it on-chain. Both live on the same non-custodial U.CASH checkout.

Nigerian Naira at a glance

Code
NGN
Symbol
₦
Local rail
None in the set
Pegged tokens
1

Rails that settle NGN

Naira checkouts can offer cards through your own Stripe or Verifone account; the cNGN token and the crypto rails cover on-chain settlement.

Stripe

Worldwide. Card processing via your own account.

Verifone (2Checkout)

Worldwide. Card processing via your own account.

Pegged tokens on U.CASH

cNGN, issued by the Africa Stablecoin Consortium under Nigerian regulation, trades on U.CASH: a 1:1 naira token acceptable at checkout, swappable, and holdable in your own wallet.

cNGN

cNGN (cNGN)

Pegged 1:1 to the nigerian naira. Accept it, swap it, hold it non-custodially.

How to accept NGN at checkout

Step 01

Open a checkout

A store, a payment link, or an embedded checkout on U.CASH Pay lists what buyers can pay with. Card processing covers NGN buyers through your own processor account.

Step 02

Set your prices in NGN

Your prices stay denominated in Nigerian Naira. The checkout derives the crypto amount live at payment time when a buyer pays with a digital asset, and the NGN figure is what your ledger reconciles against.

Step 03

Get paid

Card buyers settle through your processor, and buyers paying the NGN-pegged token settle on-chain to your wallet. Each payment arrives with its reference and transaction detail in the record.

Step 04

Settle your way

Hold receipts, convert them on a schedule, or pay out through the rails that reach your bank. Nothing about the currency choice locks the treasury path.

The NGN rails compared

Reach, flow mode, and what each rail asks of the buyer, from the rail registry.

Card
Stripe · Global by nature · Automatic flows · Not required. U.CASH charges nothing on top: you pay Stripe's processing fees, and Stripe's payout schedule applies. Connec…
Card
Verifone (2Checkout) · Global by nature · Automatic flows · Not required. U.CASH charges nothing on top: you pay Verifone's processing fees on your own account terms, and Verifone's p…
Bank
SWIFT · Essentially every banking system · For corridors the local rails do not cover

A practical composition for a Nigerian Naira merchant: the local rail wins domestic transactions on cost and speed, cards cover the buyers who reach for plastic, and the NGN peg carries cross-border settlement without correspondent banks. Offer all of them from one checkout and let each payment find its natural path; the invoice stays in NGN whichever leg carries it.

The on-chain alternative

One NGN-pegged token trades on U.CASH: cNGN (cNGN). It settles as a standard token on its home chain, so a Nigerian Naira receipt can arrive on-chain without any bank in the loop, and the peg holds the two forms of the currency equivalent for accounting.

Where it settles

Countries served by the Nigerian Naira rails on U.CASH.

Nigeria

Nigerian Naira: FAQ

Is there a naira stablecoin?
Yes: cNGN, issued under Nigeria's 2025 ISA framework, pegged 1:1 to the naira.
How do I accept naira payments on-chain?
Enable cNGN on your checkout. Buyers pay from any wallet that holds it, and it settles non-custodially to yours.
How do I price NGN when buyers pay crypto?
Price in Nigerian Naira and let the checkout derive: the invoice carries the NGN figure, the buyer's wallet sees the crypto equivalent at live rates, and your ledger reconciles against the NGN denomination. The currency of record never changes.
Should I hold the NGN peg or convert out on receipt?
Holding the pegged token keeps the exposure in Nigerian Naira terms, which suits a business whose costs are in Nigerian Naira. Converting on receipt into your operating currency removes the exposure at the cost of the conversion fee. Both are checkout settings, changeable anytime.
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NGN, rails and chains

Bank rails for the checkout, pegged tokens for on-chain settlement, one non-custodial platform.