Striga alternative for a stablecoin app under your brand
Striga, now part of Lightspark, sells APIs for EEA cards and IBANs. As a Striga alternative for customers outside the EEA, Unigox builds the app where they buy, hold and sell USDT or USDC by local transfer or mobile money.
When to stay with Striga
Your customers live in the EEA and want a card
Striga gives each verified user a named EUR vIBAN on SEPA and SEPA Instant. Its branded Visa cards, virtual or physical, spend from a euro, stablecoin or Bitcoin balance and can be added to Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Your product runs on Bitcoin
Striga holds BTC for each user, moves it on-chain, and creates and pays Lightning invoices without a node of your own. A Unigox app holds USDT and USDC only.
Your engineers want to build on the API
One Striga API covers user onboarding with KYC, wallets, vIBANs, swaps and cards, and its sandbox simulates identity results, bank payments and card activity. If your own app only needs local payouts and collections settled in USDT or USDC, look at the Payments API.
See the Payments API
Striga's APIs next to an app built by Unigox
| Topic | Striga | Unigox |
|---|---|---|
| Who can sign | A company with a legal entity in Europe, which Striga's docs say MiCA now requires. | A company that passes Unigox KYB. Countries excluded by the Terms of Service or under sanctions cannot apply. |
| Your customers | People and businesses in the EEA, verified in tiers through an identity check embedded in your app. | People who sign up with email in your app and pass an identity check. Where they can buy and sell depends on the local payment methods available, agreed during planning. |
| What you launch | Your own app on Striga's API, or Striga's white-label web app, hosted by Striga and live in under a week. You can later move its users to your own build. | A mobile app Unigox builds for you, listed on the App Store and Google Play under your brand and your own developer account. |
| Money in and out | SEPA and SEPA Instant to named EUR vIBANs; BTC, ETH and USDC on-chain; Bitcoin over Lightning; swaps between crypto and euros. | USDT or USDC bought and sold by local bank transfer or mobile money. EUR and GBP accounts in your customers' own names can be added on request after your KYB. |
| Cards | Branded Visa cards, virtual and physical, linked to any balance, with Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay tokens. | No card. The app covers the wallet, local payments, identity checks and support once it is live. |
| Pricing | Not published. Striga quotes a price on a sales call. | The Full Bundle starts at $25,000 setup plus a $7,500 monthly minimum and a 20% revenue share, with a 12-month first term. |
| Regulation | Lightspark Payments Europe AS, formerly Striga, authorised in Estonia as a MiCA crypto-asset service provider and as an e-money institution. | Unigox works through two companies: UNIGOX NETWORK CORP. in Canada handles the local-money side and is registered with FINTRAC as a money services business and with the Bank of Canada as a payment service provider; UNIGOX NETWORK CORP. in Panama handles the crypto side, including wallets and escrow. |
UnigoxMove from Striga to a Unigox app
Book a scoping call
Tell us where your customers live, how they pay today and what the first release must do. We come back with launch markets, any customer account services and the price.
Send Unigox your company documents
Send your company's registration, ownership, source-of-funds and intended-use documents. Your Striga onboarding does not carry over.
Share your brand and app store accounts
Unigox builds the app from your brand materials and App Store and Google Play developer account, and you review it before launch. Customers open new accounts in it; Striga vIBANs and cards stay where they are.
Questions about a Striga alternative
When is Unigox the Striga alternative to pick?
When your customers pay by local bank transfer or mobile money rather than SEPA, and you want a finished mobile app instead of an API to build on. Striga onboards people and businesses in the EEA and needs your company to have a legal entity in Europe.
See NeoBank-as-a-ServiceWhat does the Striga API cover?
The Striga API onboards users with KYC, opens multi-currency wallets, adds EUR vIBANs or crypto deposit addresses, swaps between currencies and issues Visa cards. Its sandbox can trigger identity results, incoming bank payments and card activity. The Unigox Payments API adds local payouts and collections by bank account or mobile money to your own app, settled in USDT or USDC, with a sandbox opened after KYB and setup.
See the Payments APIHow does Striga pricing compare with NeoBank-as-a-Service?
Striga does not publish its prices and offers to set them on a call. Unigox publishes a starting price for its app: $25,000 setup, a $7,500 monthly minimum and a 20% revenue share, then month to month after the first 12 months.
Is Striga part of Lightspark now?
Yes. Lightspark has acquired Striga, and Striga said it would keep serving existing customers. Its Estonian company is now registered as Lightspark Payments Europe AS, and some striga.com product pages open lightspark.com.
Plan a stablecoin app your customers can use
Say who your customers are and how they pay today. We confirm what the app includes, where it launches and what it costs before you commit.
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