Polaris Bank — a retail-focused commercial bank. Money from abroad, straight to your account at the live rate.
Someone abroad sends USDT to your permanent Monica deposit address — from any exchange, any country, any time. When the deposit confirms on-chain (seconds to a couple of minutes on TRC-20), you convert at the live USDT/NGN rate and withdraw. The naira lands in Polaris Bank in 30–60 seconds via nibss, riding the same NIBSS instant rails as any local transfer. The sender never needs your Polaris Bank details, and you never need a domiciliary account.
Cost: the whole chain costs the sender about $1, against the 8.8% World Bank average for traditional remittances. Rate: conversion happens at the live market rate — not a remitter's payout rate. Control: money arrives as dollars (USDT) and you decide when to convert, which many families use to hold value against naira moves. And it works at 3am on a Sunday exactly as well as Tuesday noon.
"Sent $500 from Italy on a Sunday night. My brother confirmed the Zenith Bank alert before we finished the phone call."
"The rate is the real difference. Remitly pays out at their own rate; with USDT my family gets the open-market rate — that's an extra ₦15k on $500."
"First time I tried it I sent just $20 to test. It worked so fast I sent the real $800 immediately after."
"The dollar I send is the dollar they receive. After years of watching Sendwave shave both ends, that still feels strange — in a good way."
Yes. Convert USDT to naira on Monica at the live rate and withdraw directly to your Polaris Bank account — payout typically completes in 30–60 seconds via nibss after you tap withdraw.
30–60 seconds via NIBSS after conversion. The transfer rides NIBSS instant rails, the same system Polaris Bank uses for regular instant transfers.
0% conversion fee and 0% withdrawal fee on Monica. The only cost in the entire remittance chain is the sender's ~$1 network fee.
No — that's a nice property of the route. The sender only ever sees your USDT address. Your Polaris Bank account details stay inside your own Monica app.
The live USDT/NGN market rate displayed at the moment you convert. No remitter markup.
Yes. Monica supports withdrawal to every NIBSS-connected Nigerian bank and wallet — add as many payout accounts as you like.
0% fees on the Nigeria side. Live market rate. Setup takes about 4 minutes.
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