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WoW · 2021

Transport payments, Cape Town.

PaymentsTransport

cashless fares for minibus transport.

Minibus transport in South Africa runs largely on cash. WoW set out to replace it with a closed-loop payment system: rand-denominated, stablecoin-style value and tap-to-pay on board. We helped build it, and it ran on routes in Cape Town.

Cashless
tap-to-pay fares
ZAR
stablecoin-style value
Cape Town
routes in operation
What we built

the system.

  • Rand-denominated digital value, stablecoin-style
  • Tap-to-pay for passengers
  • Closed-loop payments that keep fares off cash
Stack
Closed-loop paymentsStablecoin-style ZARTap to pay
Outcome
cash, replaced.

The system ran on a few Cape Town routes: a practical, bounded pilot of digital fares in minibus transport.

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