{"id":121071,"date":"2021-03-30T15:23:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T22:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/four-nigerian-undergrads-leave-school-to-launch-crypto-remittance-company-flux"},"modified":"2021-03-30T15:23:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T22:23:18","slug":"four-nigerian-undergrads-leave-school-to-launch-crypto-remittance-company-flux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/four-nigerian-undergrads-leave-school-to-launch-crypto-remittance-company-flux","title":{"rendered":"Four Nigerian Undergrads Leave School to Launch Crypto Remittance Company Flux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/four-nigerian-undergrads-leave-school-to-launch-crypto-remittance-company-flux2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a new crypto converter on the market for those looking for a more seamless way to send and receive money internationally.<\/p>\n<p>With the emergence of crypto remittance companies in recent years, a group of undergraduates based in Nigeria teamed up to stake their claim in the market. Software engineers Ben Eluan and Osezele Orukpe became the CEO and CTO, respectively, of their company, <a href=\"https:\/\/iflux.app\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flux<\/a>, a new crypto remittance company that <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/03\/22\/these-undergraduates-left-university-to-build-flux-a-payments-startup-now-in-yc\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">allows<\/a> merchants to send and receive money from anywhere in the world, <i>TechCrunch<\/i> reports. Through Flux, users can convert fiat funds into crypto that can be sent to people in other countries without all the time constraints and exorbitant fees.<\/p>\n<p><b>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/slideshow\/309108\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">10 of the Most Successful Black Entrepreneurs<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a new crypto converter on the market for those looking for a more seamless way to send and receive money internationally. With the emergence of crypto remittance companies in recent years, a group of undergraduates based in Nigeria teamed up to stake their claim in the market. Software engineers Ben Eluan and Osezele Orukpe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}