When Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Wallets on August 4, 2026, it was easy to read it as just another payments product. It isn't. Taken together with the company's other recent moves, Wallets reveals a larger bet: that the web is turning into a marketplace run by machines, and whoever builds the plumbing for that marketplace first gets to shape how agentic commerce works.
The Backdrop: A Web Where Bots Outnumber Humans
The single most important line in Cloudflare's announcement isn't about wallets at all. It's the company's observation that a majority of web traffic is now driven by bots.
This puts the launch into perspective. For thirty years, the web's business models- free trials, sign-up credits, ads, subscriptions were designed around human visitors...
Virtual dollar cards have become central to accessing the global digital economy, especially as an African. Whether you want to pay for subscriptions, shop on international e-commerce platforms, or pay for courses for your professional development, being able to have seamless payment access is now a baseline requirement, no longer a luxury.
However, choosing the right platform to get a virtual dollar card is just as important. You need to look out for the fee transparency, transaction limits, access to global platforms, security features, and their customer service.
This guide provides an insight into the top 7 virtual dollar card providers in Nigeria, so you can make an informed choice.
Top 7 Virtual Dollar Card Providers in Nigeria (2026)
The top 7 virtual...
Want to buy wedding dresses? In the modern world, the internet has made life easier. Most of people across the world use the internet to search for products or purchase clothes, products, and other items. Shopping for trendy clothes online is convenient.
You can purchase clothes online from the comfort of your home from a custom clothier or a big store that offers you the latest style at lower prices.
These days, there are large ranges of the e-commerce stores in the market. These has created opportunities for high discounts, flexibility and latest collection for luxury lovers. You can select the...
Regardless of how B2B companies are emerging in the world, many of them still lack the expertise and approach of utilizing online marketing techniques to generate quality leads. In fact, you’ll be surprised to find out that most of them still rely on the traditional method of cold calling, a useful lead generation technique. Yes, cold calling is always helpful, but not as much as any of the inbound marketing techniques.
Apart from that, many B2B marketplaces like Amazon Business, Alibaba, ExportHub, and Global Sources are also playing an essential part in helping businesses of all sizes and types by...
Following a rapid economic growth, consumer-facing industries have quietly grown into a significant economic force in Africa's most populous nation. Over the last decade, the Nigerian telecommunications and banking industries have experienced rapid expansion, serving rising demand and a fast growing middle class.
A typical Nigerian consumer nowadays demands a modern, fast and, most importantly, safe shopping experience which is enabled by a dependable payment system.
In the broadest sense of the term, payment system is a set of systems enabling transfer and circulation of funds. To perform its role successfully, the payment system must fulfill three prerequisites.
One is that the...
Nigerian payments company Paystack has raised Series A funding from global payments leaders Stripe, Visa, and Tencent
In little over two years, Paystack has grown to power tens of thousands of businesses of all sizes, and already processes more than 15% of all online payments in Nigeria—Africa’s largest economy.
The funding will be used to fuel Paystack’s continental expansion, build out their payments infrastructure, and grow their engineering team.
LAGOS, AUGUST 28, 2018 - Paystack, a Nigeria-based startup providing payments tools to businesses in Africa, has raised $8 million in Series A funding. The round was led by...
Engaging in the CBD business can be a lucrative venture. In 2017 the legal sales of CBD products and medical Marijuana hit the $10 billion mark. However, most of the banks still treat the CBD businesses as high-risk businesses and therefore do not offer payment processing solutions for them.
The few banks that offer the services do so with a lot of restrictions and exorbitant charges to the businesses. Without a merchant account, the business would not be able to receive online payments through cards making it difficult to run the business.
Many third-party payment processors that deal with high-risk businesses...
Every business owner works hard to grow their business as fast as possible. Often, the process is a little complicated if you are comfortable with where you are.
However, in this competitive world, you can never be contented with your present circumstance. Even if there is so much to admire when you look at your current business status and compare to how you began, you have to continue making things better.
The customer community is always looking for new and greater products and services. So, you have to meet their expectations by coming up with fresh ideas that make your business...
The best definition of passive income is – Building online businesses that take advantage of systems of automation that allow transactions, cash flow, and growth to happen without requiring a real-time presence.
This means you invest your time straight into creating valuable products and experiences that assist others, all the qualities of a good business.
Online businesses take far less money to invest and the rewards come in much faster, plus it creates something you can become known for.
How Liquidation Business Works
Setting up a liquidation business is a piece of cake, anyone with a chair and a strong internet connection can...
In business, customer relationships are paramount. The business that treats its customers best will be the business that thrives in any market. So what does this mean for businesses? It’s time to invest in a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. Read on to learn about the best CRM software for small businesses in 2026 and why you need it if you want your business to succeed.
Years ago, customer relationship management (CRM) software was seen primarily as programs used by companies, businesses, and individuals in public relations (PR) and sales to easily store customer information and track customer communication. Their...
Nigerian startups CredPal and Zowasel win in the Merchant Payments and Financial Inclusion challenges respectively
Lagos, Nigeria; 25 July 2018: Visa (NYSE:V), the world’s leader in digital payments, announced Nigerian startups CredPal and Zowasel as winners in the Merchant Payments and Financial Inclusion challenges of its first ever Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) Everywhere Initiative, a global program aimed at startups and designed to encourage the development of the next big thing in payments. The winning solutions beat 10 other contenders selected from 238 submissions to emerge as champions.
The SSA program was structured around three real life business challenges:
Merchant Payments...
Amazon is an e–Commerce Company that is gradually making its way to each and every sector making more and more loyal customers. With Amazon gifting has become a charm there are tons of options which one can get for their loved once.
Gifting is a wide topic which there are many different things which comes under the same. Deciding a gift is not an easy task and hence there came the tradition of giving money in case you are not getting any good gift, as the person will have flexibility to use the money as their need.
With most of the...
Wouldn’t it be great if you could expand your company into a new market with minimal expense and maximum ease? Perhaps you would like to move your company to an overseas location, but it is currently out of your budget.
Setting up a physical office anywhere is expensive and this can also be time-consuming. But there is another solution, one which does not require you to rent office space, buy furniture, set up utilities, or hire a receptionist: a virtual office. It’s faster, much cheaper and you can set one up just about anywhere.
What is a Virtual Office?
A virtual office...
One of the most profitable moves you can make in this environment that is highly competitive is to create an ecommerce website. However, like most of the already existing ecommerce websites, you may have a big issue with how to effectively market your site.
There is no way you will get new customers unless you market your online platform. This means that your site may end up failing. This article will give you some tips on how you can effectively market your ecommerce site.
The method that we are going to put forward in this article have actually stood the test...
This month florists across the world have sent out thousands of bouquets filled with roses and carnations, orchids and lilies for honoring a special day for their Mums’... Mother’s day. It has slowly overtaken Valentine’s Day in terms of volumes of flowers in newer markets around the world.
Yet, there are many florists who will suffer losses while adding to their turnover because of the impact of the “Online Florist” a term, which is very deceptive. It is deceptive to both, the end consumer, who pays for the bouquet as well as the receiver who does not quite know what...
The avalanche of complaints of cyber fraud and risks in eCommerce business is truly overwhelming. No doubt, as complaints continue to pour in at an unprecedented rate, cyber fraud has been the subject of much debate.
It behooves, therefore, to learn about the risks involved in eCommerce business.
Let’s get started
Risk #1: It is an uncontested fact that eCommerce businesses are prone to phishing and hacking attacks, credit card fraud and data errors.
Solution: To minimize the incidence of credit card fraud, request your users for non-storable CVV. To mitigate online attacks, deploy multilayered security and PCI scans along with SSL certifications
Risk...
You won’t see many web designers using psychological research; yet, it is one of the essential web design tools that must be used. Websites are not limited to the words written on them.
The framework on which you are going to present your data is even more critical. Many small aspects of line, shape, colors and SEO-based designing mistakes can ruin your website traffic.
However, if you think that designing website is something that comes from within, you are wrong. Psychology-based website design is easy; you need to ditch few things including the idea of elegance. If the website is not...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a major driver of digital transformation as businesses try to keep in step with the rapid technological advancements in 2018.
Due to constant media coverage, AI is one of the most known aspects of this transformation.
It is slated to make humans obsolete as it is increasingly becoming a necessity for businesses, whether they're investing in AI-embedded software, or using MLaaS (Machine Learning as a Service) to automate internal processes.
AI is quickly modernizing businesses, and in 2018, businesses that have not yet adopted it will begin to feel the need to and pressure, whether that is...
Being a freelance writer is a good and a very lucrative source of income. It can help you stay independent and write freely as you like while getting paid for your work. But the downside of it is that it’s not a consistent job especially when you’re new in it.
But let it not discourage you, there are other side hustles you can engage in to support your new career.
Below are 10 jobs you can add as side hustles when the freelance jobs aren’t coming through.
1. Social Media Management
To add to your income as a freelance writer, you can engage...
Lagos, Nigeria, 15 May 2018: Nigeria’s no. 1 online shopping platform, Jumia has unveiled a new campaign to position itself as the online platform with the cheapest merchandise in the country. Tagged ‘Last Price Campaign’, its objective is to offer customers the very best prices on over 1,000 iconic products across all categories on its platform.
The campaign kicked off yesterday (May 14th, 2018) nationwide with a promise: “if you buy it cheaper on other platforms, we will refund you 10 times the difference in price within the next 3 months.” The campaign is scheduled to end on May 25th,...
Like any other business, an eCommerce store has to work hard to bring visitors and sales on their website from different channels (Organic, Direct, Referral and Paid). The success of any eCommerce business depends on its marketing strategy, market trend and user behavior.
An eCommerce owner must be aware of these strategies and stay connected with the real world to explore new trends and technologies to drive more sales.
Generally, based on the customer, there are two types of eCommerce site: B2B and B2C. There are various marketing channels available for these types of business. However, working on every marketing channels...
The term "Growth Hacking" has just recently come to limelight and has shot to fame exponentially seeing how it was coined in the year 2010 by Sean Ellis.
Many perceive growth hacking to be some sort of shortcut to online marketing success whereas it is simply a concept that stands on principles such as designing an astute strategy, employing intelligent marketing tactics and bringing to light some out of the box promotional tactics focused entirely on business growth.
As a matter of fact, growth hacking is not simply for small budget, small scale and on the rise businesses or products. The...
AliExpress is an online shopping mall owned by China's top online marketplace, Alibaba.com. On AliExpress, you will find thousands of top Chinese exporters and...
Virtual dollar cards have become central to accessing the global digital economy, especially as an African. Whether you want to pay for subscriptions, shop...
