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Compliant Crypto and Banking Infrastructure
Striga is building infrastructure for digital assets and financial services as a single set of APIs doing the heavy lifting of security and regulatory compliance. Striga's customers include early stage FinTech's, Web3 innovators, Banking Institutions and Crypto Exchanges utilizing services spanning the range of Crypto Custody, Trading, Card Issuing and Banking. Building a crypto business today is a highly regulated space unlike a few years ago and maintaining a compliance program and building technology presents a huge barrier to entry for startups and mid-size businesses alike and the Striga platform solves the problem with a single set of APIs and a single contract to deliver services to 30 countries today.
Striga provides compliant payments infrastructure that blends crypto and fiat capabilities, focusing on regulated APIs for digital asset custody, trading, banking, and card issuing across 30+ countries. The platform targets developers building neobanks, wallets, exchanges, and cross-border payment apps, offering integrated monetary flows with built-in compliance.
Striga offers modular APIs for crypto and fiat payments, including named virtual IBANs, dedicated crypto wallets per user, native reconciliation, card issuing (virtual and physical), money movement APIs for crypto/fiat, on/off-chain transfers, SEPA and Open Banking connectivity, wallet infrastructure with per-user deposit addresses, dedicated wallets with usage-based pricing, trading/swaps between crypto and fiat, and Lightning network support. The platform handles compliance (KYC, identity verification, fraud detection) and regulatory requirements, enabling developers to onboard users, issue cards and accounts, and manage crypto and fiat in a single API without exposing regulatory risk on the client side.
Who it’s for: Neobanks, wallets, exchanges, and crypto payment apps seeking regulated crypto-fiat payments and card issuance across Europe and beyond.
public site mentions acquisitions (Lightspark acquires Striga) and logo-backed, multi-country regulatory licensing, customer stories, and developer-focused API docs; mentions onboarding startups and enterprises with transparent pricing
Passionate early Bitcoin-er and developer. Left ETH Zurich mid-way through my MSc to build Lastbit/Striga. Working with bitcoin and playing a European tour with a German band, evidently illustrated the horrors of only legally having access to an Indian bank account but attempting to use multiple currencies on a daily basis, whilst bitcoin was promised to solve this problem. Striga solves this and enables businesses to solve this. In my "free" time - semi-pro drummer & full time metalhead
Embed crypto & banking infrastructure into your application
Striga provides APIs to combine banking infrastructure and crypto infrastructure for applications, enabling features like issuing Visa cards linked to crypto accounts or onboarding users with USDC/USDT deposit addresses, without requiring licenses or a dedicated compliance team. The launch highlights getting started with a free developer account, pricing details, and a 50% discount on the first batch of physical cards for new builders.
From the original launch (Jul 2022) — may be outdated.
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