# Yellow Card

*Pan-African crypto payments and on-ramp.*

Yellow Card is stablecoin payments and on/off-ramp infrastructure for emerging markets, especially Africa, where it operates across roughly 20 countries via an API suite that connects local fiat to stablecoins. Founded in 2016 and based in Atlanta, it joined Tempo as an initial infrastructure partner announced on 2025-09-23, positioning it to link Tempo payment flows to local fiat rails and liquidity.

## At a glance

- **Type:** payments app
- **Category:** onramps
- **Status:** active
- **Website:** https://yellowcard.io

## Key facts

- **Role on Tempo:** Initial Tempo infrastructure partner, providing stablecoin on/off-ramps and stablecoin orchestration services as part of the launch partner cohort. _(confidence 60%)_
- **Tempo partnership announced:** Named among Tempo's initial infrastructure partners on 2025-09-23. _(confidence 60%)_
- **What it does:** Stablecoin payments and on/off-ramp infrastructure focused on emerging markets, especially Africa. _(confidence 90%)_
- **Headquarters:** Atlanta, United States. _(confidence 60%)_
- **Founded:** 2016, by Chris Maurice and Justin Poiroux. _(confidence 96%)_
- **Regions:** Operates across roughly 20 African countries for business stablecoin on/off-ramps using local payment methods. _(confidence 60%)_
- **Products:** Offers an API suite for integrating stablecoin and fiat payment infrastructure, including on/off-ramps. _(confidence 88%)_

## Sources

1. [https://tempo.xyz/infra-partners](https://tempo.xyz/infra-partners)
2. [https://yellowcard.io/about-us](https://yellowcard.io/about-us)
3. [https://yellowcard.io/about](https://yellowcard.io/about)
4. [https://help.yellowcard.io/article/185-what-countries-is-yellow-card-available-in](https://help.yellowcard.io/article/185-what-countries-is-yellow-card-available-in)
5. [https://yellowcard.io/products](https://yellowcard.io/products)

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Last reviewed: 7 Jun 2025  
Canonical: https://tempo.dataos.so/entity/yellow-card  
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