Flutterwave has paid out $100M in stablecoins to businesses
Flutterwave's onchain settlement rail has crossed $100M in stablecoin payouts to businesses — $103.2M across 465 recipient addresses, paid in USDC, USDT and RLUSD, almost all on Ethereum. Payouts went near-vertical this year, up 532% quarter-on-quarter.
- $103.2M
- Paid out to businesses
- 465
- Recipient addresses
- +532%
- Payouts QoQ
- USDC
- + USDT · RLUSD
crossed $100M in September
up from 29 in February
near-vertical ramp
mostly on Ethereum
Flutterwave's onchain settlement rail just crossed a line: more than $100M paid out to businesses in stablecoins. The exact figure is $103.2M, and almost all of it landed in the last few months.
This isn't customer deposits or trading volume. It's the money Flutterwave pays out — stablecoin settlements to 465 recipient addresses, in USDC, USDT and RLUSD, almost entirely on Ethereum (with some Polygon and Base).
The shape is the story. Payouts were under $2M in February; by September the cumulative had crossed $100M — a near-vertical ramp, up 532% quarter-on-quarter. Recipient addresses grew from 29 to nearly 200 a month over the same stretch.
A note on what this measures. This is B2B settlement volume — the value Flutterwave pays to businesses onchain — and we don't add it to the venue market index. We count it once, at the payout boundary, and strip the treasury and redemption legs so the same dollar isn't counted as it routes. It's a clean read on one thing: how much stablecoin Flutterwave is actually paying out.
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Method
Flutterwave payouts are measured on-chain from its settlement contracts — the stablecoin value paid out to recipient businesses, cumulative to September 2026. Counted once at the payout boundary (treasury and stablecoin-redemption legs are excluded, so routing hops are not double-counted). This is B2B settlement volume — value Flutterwave pays to businesses — and it is never added to the venue market index. Excludes all off-chain activity.
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AfriFlux (2026). Flutterwave has paid out $100M in stablecoins to businesses. Published 24 September 2026. https://www.afriflux.xyz/feed/flutterwave-100m-payouts
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