Who We Are

Africa Free Routing helps African businesses grow by accepting fast, global Bitcoin payments through the Lightning Network. 

We’re a community-led, mission-driven initiative focused on onboarding real businesses, training local devs, and keeping payments flowing with free, reliable routing infrastructure.

We believe that by equipping African businesses and developers with the right tools and support, we can drive real financial freedom across the continent.

OUR DRIVING FORCE

Why We Exist

Africa’s small businesses face huge challenges:

We started Africa Free Routing to fix this — not with promises, but with action. By helping businesses accept Lightning payments and training developers to support them, we’re making it easier to send, receive, and build with Bitcoin in Africa. We don’t just believe in Bitcoin — we believe in what Africans can do with it.

What We Do

We Help African Businesses Accept Bitcoin

We onboard local and online businesses to the Lightning Network — helping them grow their customer base, reduce payment friction, and operate globally with ease.

We Train Lightning-Ready Developers

Our bootcamps and workshops equip African developers with hands-on skills to build, support, and deploy real Lightning-powered solutions. These developers form the backbone of local Lightning adoption, supporting the businesses we onboard. 

We Power Africa’s Bitcoin Routing Network

We onboard local and online businesses to the Lightning Network — helping them grow their customer base, reduce payment friction, and operate globally with ease.

Our Misson

To accelerate Lightning adoption in Africa by training developers and supporting businesses with free routing nodes.

Our Vision

A financially inclusive Africa where the Lightning Network enables instant, low-cost, and borderless transactions for all.

Our Core Values

Accountability

We are dependable. We make sure our tasks and objectives are delivered on time every time and at the highest quality. We communicate about roadblocks well in advance.

Growth Mindset

We believe that with hard work and relentless curiosity we can achieve anything. We are always reading, testing, learning and improving. We move forward with urgency making fast decisions and continuously learning from our many failures.  

Kindness

We are trustworthy, humble, fun to work with and sincerely want the utmost success for each other and our community. We always treat each other and our community with kindness and respect

Truth Seeking

We are open minded and evidence-based. We strive to be objective and facts focussed and constantly challenge group think and the “status quo” in pursuit of the underlying truth. We make decisions from hard data wherever possible and are mindful of our cognitive biases.

Privacy

We are the leaders of a peaceful revolution. This comes with risks particularly when the inevitable government backlash comes against Bitcoin. To protect our team and their loved ones we always operate with privacy front of mind.

Want to Join the Movement?

Whether you’re a business owner, developer, or Bitcoin believer — let’s build something powerful together.

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