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Poko

Seamless Fiat Payments for Web3

ActiveChecked 18h ago
Batch
W22
Status, per YC
Active
Team size
10
HQ
Singapore, Singapore
In W22398 companies, 44% AI
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About Poko

Poko enables seamless transfers from local payment rails to web3 infrastructure enabling web3 wallets, marketplaces, games and DApps to acquire more users. With Poko’s SDK, web3 builders can easily enable fiat-to-crypto onramping with 100+ common local payment methods or easily pay for NFTs with local payment methods. Poko's fiat-to-cryptoonramp aggregator reduces onramping costs by up to 70% and increases transaction success rates by up to 5x through a smart routing logic and a single integration to multiple onramps. It's Direct Checkout solution enables one step purchasing from fiat payment rails from any smart contract for 79% higher user conversion. The co-founders’ experience includes being chief strategy officer of a $2.4B coincap protocol, leading technical implementation of Singapore’s central bank’s experiment in cross-border payments on blockchain rails, policy experience as payments task force member at the World Economic Forum, ex-Ethereum Foundation Fellow, and CTO of a 2M+ user play to earn game.

Singapore, Singapore

Poko: questions

Which YC batch was Poko in?

Poko was in Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch (W22).

Is Poko still active?

Y Combinator lists Poko as active.

Where is Poko based?

Poko lists Singapore, Singapore as its location on YC's directory.

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