Blockchain infrastructure is becoming an important part of how businesses manage digital assets, process transactions, and develop financial products. Bitpowr, a Nigerian-founded technology company, is positioning itself in this market by providing the wallet, custody, compliance, and transaction infrastructure businesses need to operate on blockchain networks.
The company reports more than $1 billion in transaction volume, 51 million API calls, over 2 million secured transactions, and more than 400,000 wallets created. Bitpowr also says its infrastructure supports 15 blockchains and over 2,000 digital assets. These figures show the scale the company says its platform has reached since launching in 2021.
Rather than requiring businesses to develop every blockchain function from scratch, Bitpowr provides APIs, software tools, and infrastructure for companies that want to integrate digital assets into their existing products and operations.
From an internal wallet system to a blockchain infrastructure company
Bitpowr was founded by Tobiloba Emmanuel Oyetoke and Amarachi Amaechi. The company’s early development came from the founders’ experience working with crypto and financial technology systems.
Oyetoke had worked on backend systems and crypto infrastructure before creating an internal wallet management system for a crypto exchange. The system was developed to address the cost and limitations of third-party wallet tools.
The internal solution eventually evolved into a more flexible API that allowed businesses to create and manage wallets without rebuilding their entire technology stack. After seeing demand for this type of infrastructure, Oyetoke and Amaechi developed the idea into Bitpowr, which launched in 2021.
Amaechi brought experience in accounting and corporate finance before transitioning into software engineering. Her background helped the company approach blockchain infrastructure from both the technical and business sides, particularly for companies that needed digital asset functionality to work alongside traditional financial systems.
In 2022, Bitpowr joined the 500 Global accelerator programme. The company described its offering at the time as infrastructure for businesses in emerging markets, covering wallets, payments, settlements, cloud services, and custody solutions.
Wallet infrastructure for businesses
Wallet infrastructure is one of Bitpowr’s central offerings. Businesses that operate exchanges, payment platforms, financial applications, or digital asset products need systems for creating wallets, managing addresses, tracking balances, and processing transactions.
Bitpowr’s wallet API allows developers to create and manage crypto wallets, assets, and addresses programmatically. The API is organised around REST, while authentication is handled through API keys or public and secret keys.
This allows businesses to integrate wallet functions into their own applications instead of sending users to a separate platform for every blockchain transaction.
The infrastructure supports wallet creation and management across multiple blockchain networks. According to Bitpowr, its platform supports 15 blockchains and more than 2,000 assets, giving businesses access to a multi-chain environment through one infrastructure provider.
Developers can also use Bitpowr’s test environment before deploying their applications to live networks. Its documentation provides testnet and mainnet environments, API keys, and instructions for building and testing integrations.
Custody and secure digital asset management
As companies hold larger amounts of digital assets, they need more than a basic wallet interface. They also require controls for authorising transactions, managing access, monitoring activity, and reducing the risk of unauthorised transfers.
Bitpowr provides custody infrastructure based on multi-party computation, commonly known as MPC. Its documentation describes MPC as part of its custody system for custodians, asset managers, and businesses that need to manage digital assets while reducing the risks associated with a single private key.
The company also offers a policy engine that allows businesses to configure rules for wallet and transaction activities. These controls can help organisations define how transactions are approved and how wallet operations are governed.
For institutional users, these functions are important because digital asset management often involves multiple employees, departments, approval levels, and operational controls. A business may need to separate the person initiating a transaction from the person approving it, rather than allowing one user to control every step.
Bitpowr’s custody and policy tools are designed to support this type of structured digital asset operation.
Treasury management and asset operations
Bitpowr also provides treasury management tools for businesses and institutions managing digital asset portfolios. Treasury operations can include monitoring balances, tracking transactions, managing assets across different networks, and coordinating transfers between wallets. These activities become more complex as an organisation handles multiple assets and blockchain protocols.
The company’s platform brings wallet management and treasury functions into the same infrastructure environment. Its website describes the product as a unified platform for managing digital assets and building financial products on blockchain networks.
For fintech companies, this can provide a foundation for products such as digital asset accounts, payment services, exchange platforms, and other applications that require blockchain-based transaction capabilities.
Tokenisation infrastructure
Beyond wallets and custody, Bitpowr provides a tokenisation engine for creating and managing digital tokens.
Tokenisation involves representing assets or rights digitally on a blockchain. Depending on the use case, tokens can represent financial instruments, real-world assets, loyalty units, in-platform credits, or newly created digital assets.
Bitpowr’s documentation says its tokenisation engine supports the issuance, transfer, and tracking of digital tokens. This gives businesses infrastructure for managing token-based products without having to build every token operation independently.
Tokenisation is increasingly being explored across financial services, including asset management, payments, and settlement systems. However, the practical requirements differ depending on the asset being represented, the legal framework, and the blockchain used.
Bitpowr’s role is to provide the technical infrastructure that businesses can use when developing these applications.
Compliance through AML and KYT tools
Compliance is another part of Bitpowr’s infrastructure offering.
Digital asset businesses need to monitor transactions and identify activity that may present financial crime risks. Depending on their location, business model, and customer base, they may also need to verify customers and maintain transaction records for regulatory purposes.
Bitpowr offers compliance infrastructure that includes Know Your Transaction, or KYT, and Anti-Money Laundering, or AML, monitoring. Its documentation describes tools for monitoring digital asset transactions and customer activity through integrated compliance solutions.
KYT focuses on examining blockchain transactions, including their movement between addresses and potential risk indicators. AML systems support broader processes for identifying and monitoring suspicious financial activity.
By including compliance features alongside wallets and transaction infrastructure, Bitpowr is targeting businesses that need to build digital asset products with operational and regulatory controls in place.
The exact compliance obligations still depend on the jurisdiction and activities of each business. Infrastructure tools can support these processes, but they do not automatically replace a company’s legal, regulatory, or compliance responsibilities.
Payments and settlement infrastructure
Bitpowr’s platform also includes tools for digital asset payments and settlement.
Its payment and settlement engine is designed to support digital asset transfers, on-chain swaps, and cross-border transactions. The company positions these services as part of a broader infrastructure stack for businesses building financial products on blockchain networks.
For a payment company, blockchain infrastructure can support functions such as sending digital assets, receiving payments, managing settlement wallets, and transferring value across networks.
The ability to combine wallet management, transaction processing, and settlement functions may be useful for businesses that want to integrate digital assets into payment products without operating separate systems for each activity.
Bitpowr’s developer documentation includes transaction endpoints for different blockchain architectures, including UTXO-based networks and Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible networks. This allows developers to interact with supported blockchain systems through the company’s API.
Developer tools and API integrations
Its developer platform provides APIs, SDK examples, documentation, and a sandbox environment. Developers can access examples in programming languages including Node.js, Python, and Ruby through the API reference documentation.
The company also provides webhooks and events that developers can use to monitor activity and connect blockchain events to their own systems. Its documentation includes guidance on API keys, API activity logs, and integration management.
This developer-focused approach is important because blockchain products often require several systems to work together. A fintech company may need a customer-facing application, backend services, compliance tools, payment functions, and blockchain wallets.
APIs allow these functions to communicate without requiring the business to build the entire blockchain infrastructure independently.
Growth beyond the $1 billion milestone
In March 2026, VentureBeat reported that Bitpowr had surpassed $1 billion in transaction volume after approximately four years of operation. The publication linked the milestone to the company’s modular infrastructure approach and its focus on helping businesses manage digital assets without rebuilding their systems from the ground up.
The company’s official website now lists more than $1 billion in transaction volume alongside other operational metrics, including API calls, secured transactions, and wallets created. These figures are self-reported by Bitpowr and describe the activity it says has passed through its infrastructure.
Bitpowr has also received support from the global startup investment and accelerator ecosystem. Public information from Angel Investors Africa lists a $150,000 funding round in 2022 involving 500 Global, while the company’s participation in the 500 Global programme was announced by its co-founder.
The company’s progress shows a wider interest in infrastructure providers that support digital asset businesses behind the scenes. Instead of operating only as a consumer-facing crypto application, Bitpowr supplies tools that other businesses can use to develop their own financial products.
Bitpowr’s role in the digital asset economy
Blockchain adoption requires more than public networks and digital tokens. Businesses also need the infrastructure that allows them to manage assets, protect access, process transactions, monitor activity, and integrate blockchain functionality into existing products.
Bitpowr is focused on this infrastructure layer. Its offering brings together wallet management, custody, treasury operations, tokenisation, compliance, and payments within a single platform.
This model is particularly relevant to fintech companies and digital asset businesses that want to introduce blockchain-based services without building every component internally. It also provides a potential route for traditional financial businesses to experiment with digital assets through modular infrastructure.
The company’s development from an internal wallet management solution into a platform reporting more than $1 billion in transaction volume illustrates how an operational problem can become a standalone infrastructure business.
As more organisations explore digital assets, the demand for secure and developer-friendly infrastructure will remain connected to the ability of companies such as Bitpowr to support different use cases, blockchain networks, and regulatory environments.
For Bitpowr, the next stage of growth will depend on how effectively it expands its infrastructure, supports more businesses, and maintains the security and reliability required for financial operations on blockchain networks.