The Juicyway People’s Exchange is the company’s plan to connect African businesses with investors around the world. African fintech company Juicyway is looking beyond cross-border payments as it explores new funding opportunities beyond traditional financial markets.
The company is developing a blockchain-based platform designed to connect African assets with global capital. Its founder and Chief Executive Officer, Ife Johnson, discussed the plan at Moonshot by TechCabal in Lagos on November 2, 2026. The event also featured a discussion on why Africa needs more than one company to make stablecoins mainstream, a sign of how quickly digital finance is changing across the continent.
According to Johnson, making international payments faster is not enough to address Africa’s wider financial challenges. Businesses also need better access to capital and investment opportunities beyond their domestic markets.
The Juicyway People’s Exchange would use tokenisation to represent assets and securities as digital records on a blockchain. In simple terms, tokenisation turns the ownership of an asset into a digital token that can be recorded, held and transferred electronically. This could allow certain investments, such as business assets or financial instruments, to be made accessible to investors across different markets. The idea is to make it easier for African businesses to reach a wider pool of potential investors instead of depending solely on local sources of funding.
Johnson said the company had received approval in principle from Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission to develop the platform. That approval is an important early step for a project that will operate in a heavily regulated part of the financial system, although it does not mean the platform is ready to launch.
Access to funding remains a major challenge for businesses across Africa. Many companies struggle to secure the capital needed to expand, enter new markets or increase production. Juicyway believes connecting African assets with international investors could help address some of these financing limitations. A business that once had to rely on a local bank or a small circle of investors might, in theory, reach buyers in many countries.
The Juicyway People’s Exchange could eventually explore opportunities involving trade receivables, mortgages, energy, commodities and investments in private companies. These are very different kinds of assets, and each comes with its own risks, legal requirements and pricing questions. How they are valued, verified and traded will matter as much as the technology that records them.
However, the success of the platform will depend on regulatory requirements, investor confidence and the ability to establish reliable systems for managing and trading these assets. Investors abroad will want clear information about the businesses they are funding, strong protection for their money and a simple way to buy and sell. Without that trust, even a well-designed platform may struggle to attract the global investors it hopes to reach.
Juicyway has built its business around helping individuals and companies move money internationally. Its proposed expansion into tokenised capital markets signals a broader ambition to become part of the financial infrastructure connecting African businesses to the global economy. If successfully developed, the People’s Exchange could introduce another route for businesses seeking investment beyond their home countries.
The move also fits a wider pattern of investor interest in Africa’s technology sector. On the same day, Enza Capital launched a new fund to back Africa’s artificial intelligence startups, showing that investors are looking for new ways to put money into African innovation.
For Africa’s growing business ecosystem, the bigger question is whether technology can make international investment more accessible and help local businesses attract the capital they need to grow. If the Juicyway People’s Exchange can clear its regulatory hurdles and earn the confidence of investors, it could become one of the more closely watched experiments in African finance.