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Swoop – African Super App With Crypto Rails
Swoop is an African super app built by 19-year-old Thiel Fellow Aubrey, who launched food delivery in Eswatini and grew it into the country's largest ecommerce platform before expanding the model across a continent of 1.6 billion people where digital payments grow 10%+ annually but remain fragmented across 1,000+ providers. Swoop follows the Grab and Gojek playbook: anchor on a high-frequency vertical, build an agent network, then layer payments and lending on top. Crypto is invisible backend infrastructure, with critical financial activity running onchain as Swoop scales into cross-border payments and lending for populations with limited traditional banking access.
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