Scottsdale, Arizona — 28 June, 2021

Dash Partners with African Exchange Naijacrypto to Bring Cryptocurrency to Haiti

Major African exchange Naijacrypto and Dash Core Group have joined forces to launch the first cryptocurrency exchange to service the Haiti market.

Naijacrypto, Dash Haiti, and Dash Core Group are pleased to announce the first cryptocurrency market to launch in Haiti, a country beset with a lack of financial infrastructure. Naijacrypto is a P2P exchange operating across Sub-Saharan Africa and headquartered in Nigeria. This is Naijacrypto’s first foray outside the African Continent and the first exchange to formally offer the Haitian local currency, the Gourde, in exchange for cryptocurrency. This engagement is theorized to fill a much-needed gap in the financial services industry in the Caribbean. Due to several factors, this usually overlooked nation is ripe for developing and implementing new technologies.

This is a huge opportunity for Haitians because they can now buy Dash with their national currency, and participate in this great global economy of cryptocurrencies. Previously a Haitian had to trust someone abroad to buy Dash for them or buy it with a credit card, but credit cards are only accessible to a minority.

Joseph Micarlo Emile, Community Leader at Dash Haiti

This new Naijacrypto exchange is significant in that Dash, the most established cryptocurrency in the payments sector will operate as the first currency to allow for on-ramp transactions in fiat to exchange for cryptocurrency allowing for more financial freedom opportunities for residents. Other exchanges require crypto to crypto transactions, but with Naijacrypto, users will have additional options to participate in first-world markets.

As the Dash cryptocurrency market develops in Haiti, customers will also be able to utilize Dash for remittances from the U.S. to the Caribbean country. As part of this second phase of engagement, users in Haiti will now be able to acquire, store, and sell Dash, the most established cryptocurrency in the payments sector. As one of the very first exchanges with any focus in Haiti, on-the-ground support is imperative for the success of this initiative. Dash Haiti, a Dash community organization born from the DAO and based in Port-au-Prince, will play the pivotal role of providing this support and will work to raise awareness to the population through a number of channels and activities.

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Dash Haiti and Dash Core Group will be putting marketing resources toward the launch and expectations are high. Efforts will be focused on building community and developing the Dash ecosystem.

This is a particularly exciting engagement as this brings Dash, and really cryptocurrency into Haiti. We’re bringing the lessons learned from growing the Venezuelan market to a new market.

Omar Hamwi, Business Development Lead at Dash Core Group Inc.

Dash has seen significant growth in economically affected markets such as Venezuela. Dash is accepted in most major stores in the country, including Traki, Excelsior Gama, Church’s Chicken, and other major stores, to small kiosks and even being able to pay your parking in Dash. The Dash Core Group team has been working to use Dash to solve critical problems in markets suffering from severe hyperinflation for the last few years. It is this experience and knowledge they are leveraging with their entry into Haiti.

Haitian Residents can now visit Naija Crypto’s website at https://naijacrypto.com/exchange, create an account and begin exchanging their Haitian Gourde, BTC, and BUSD for Dash. More coins will be added over time.

Contact Information: For press and media inquiries please contact the Dash press team at [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you.

MARK MASON

Communications and Business Relations Manager at Dash

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About Dash Haiti

Dash Haiti was born from the Dash Network and is the largest Dash community-run organization in Haiti. Dash Haiti works to raise awareness on Dash cryptocurrency, usage, its benefits, and features within Haiti. With this latest announcement, Dash Haiti will also be working to improve access to Dash in Haiti. Dash Haiti has organized many activities in the past, including seminars, meet-ups, and other events.

About Naijacrypto

Naijacrypto is a cryptocurrency exchange and blockchain financial ecosystem aimed at creating blockchain-based financial services as well as fostering easy fiat to crypto markets. Originally launched in Nigeria, It has expanded to other parts of Africa and now Haiti.

About Dash

Dash is digital cash designed to offer financial freedom to everyone. Dash allows millions of individuals across the globe to carry out instantly re-spendable and secure transactions, with near-zero fees. Built to support real-life use cases, Dash is the leading decentralized payment solution: it is accepted at merchants globally, accessible via 3,300+ ATMs and 100+ exchanges worldwide. Dash has pioneered groundbreaking features including a two-tier network with incentivized nodes and decentralized project governance (Masternodes), instantly settled payments (InstantSend), instantly immutable blockchain (ChainLocks), and more. The Dash Network’s development is supported by Dash Core Group, the largest organization funded by the Dash Treasury, which supports and nurtures the continued worldwide development and integration of Dash. For more information, visit https://www.dash.org/ or follow the organization on Twitter @DashPay.