ChitChat, the social commerce platform, launched in Zambia, providing Africans a safe chat platform with built-in USD digital wallets.
Developed by Union54 in partnership with Mastercard, it facilitates cash transfers inside chat conversations to digital wallets. It emphasizes safe chats and instantaneous USD funds, with USD Debit Playing cards coming quickly.
ChitChat’s card and pockets options sign its transition to a full-fledged on-line/offline social commerce platform. From right this moment, customers can chat and transact by sending funds to one another’s wallets. With the launch of USD playing cards in Q2, customers will be capable to conduct in-person transactions utilizing their ChitChat card.
“We’re excited to announce ChitChat’s launch in Zambia and the simultaneous launch of our digital pockets characteristic. ChitChat’s founding precept is to be a protected, safe, and sovereign platform for social commerce. Constructing on this, we’re happy to carry world-class cost infrastructure to Africans as soon as once more,” mentioned Perseus Mlambo, CEO of Union54, the builders of ChitChat.
“We goal to develop ChitChat right into a platform that accelerates commerce throughout Africa and imagine we now have created the best chat platform with funds to function the inspiration for what’s to return,” he added.