Why Opera-backed MiniPay wants Africans to spend stablecoins

When MiniPay launched in 2023, it had a simple pitch: help users access and move stablecoins cheaply.

Three years later, the Opera-backed stablecoin app has a new priority: making those stablecoin balances more useful.

On Tuesday, the company launched a Visa debit card in partnership with payments giant Visa and Gnosis Pay, the stablecoin payments platform developed by blockchain company…