UBA — the pan-African bank many families hold. 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 UBA in 30–60 seconds via nibss, riding the same NIBSS instant rails as any local transfer. The sender never needs your UBA 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 my mum's hospital bill money from Germany at 2am. She paid the hospital before 7am. Nothing else I know can do that."
"My daughter in the US sends USDT now instead of Ria. The naira lands in my First Bank the same hour — no queue, no agent, no story."
"My parents are retired and not tech people. They only see the UBA alert — I handle the USDT side from the UK. Simple."
"Weekend transfers used to be dead time with the banks. USDT doesn't know what a weekend is."
Yes. Convert USDT to naira on Monica at the live rate and withdraw directly to your UBA 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 UBA 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 UBA 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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