@theflutterwave global engineering account for all developer-related news, blog posts, coding tips, motivation, and a dash of humor to keep you inspired 🦋
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We don’t promise returns, we don’t run trading groups, and we’ll never reach out asking you to join one 🙂↔️
What we actually do is help businesses process payments and keep your money and data secure. Knowing the difference isn’t just useful, it could save you from losing everything to someone counting on you not to check.
Please stay vigilant 📌
#flutterwave
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International money transfers? Emergency fees? School fees? Competitive rates? Yup, absolutely!🙂↕️
There are definitely exciting months ahead for SendApp. If you haven’t already, now’s a good time to download the app 💜
#sendapp #flutterwave
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Our third and final class is almost here, and we’re wrapping up the series on a high note! 🚀
Over the past two sessions, we’ve explored how to launch your online store and use AI to work smarter. Now, it’s time to bring it all together in the final session of the Flutterwave x Google Hustle Academy Learning Series
📅 21st July, 2026
🕙 10:00 AM WAT
📍 Google Meet (docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…)
Don’t miss this final class! Register via the link, and let’s close out the series together💙
#flutterwave
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Happy Father’s Day to Alhaji. Baba. Popsi. Daadi. Papa. Dad. Father. Pops. Daddy-o💙
To the men we call by everything but their names. Thank you for your love, guidance, and quiet strength.
We celebrate all fathers and father figures today and always 👏🏾✨
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We’re scaling our stack with an investment from and partnership with @Ripple!
We are integrating RLUSD on the XRP Ledger to unlock faster settlement times and improved liquidity across our network. With this integration, we are building a multi-rail payment infrastructure where traditional fiat systems and stablecoins run side-by-side seamlessly 🛠️⚡
This is the hybrid foundation for the next generation of African growth. It will power modern banking, enable startups to scale across borders and provide the data and identity rails for the next billion users. This is how we move the entire ecosystem forward 🚀
flutterwave.com/gb/blog/buil…
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We’ve got some good news to start the month! We just secured a Nigerian banking license. 🇳🇬🔥
This changes the game for us. We're no longer building on top of the financial system; more than ever, we're now operating inside it.
Faster settlement. Direct rails. Greater control over how money moves at every layer of the stack.
flutterwave.com/us/blog/owni…
For 10 years, we've been the infrastructure layer for Africa's digital economy. This license means we can now own more of the critical path, from payment initiation to account management, payouts, FX, and beyond, in one unified platform.
The next decade of building starts here. 🚀
Learn more about this exciting news here ➡️ flutterwave.com/ng/bank
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📣 @theflutterwave Engineering Office Hour is here!
Join our engineers for a live, hands-on session on building payment flows with our V4 APIs.
If you're integrating our API, scaling a payment system, or debugging production issues — this session is for you. We'll walk you through:
→ What's new in the Flutterwave V4 API
→ OAuth 2.0 authentication flows
→ Reliable webhook implementation
→ Real-time Q&A
This is not a webinar. This is a working session where our engineers are available to help you solve real problems.
📅 April 8 | 3 PM (WAT)
🖥️ Virtual (Zoom)
Register here: flutterwave.zoom.us/meeting/…
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Eid Mubarak to our community 🌙
Grateful for you. Wishing you joy, peace, and meaningful moments with those who matter most.
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Devs switching between AI coding tools because they can:
ChatGPT → Claude → Copilot → Kimi → “one more try” → ChatGPT
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One of the most confusing things in payments:
Your API returns 200 OK
Your webhook fires
Everything looks successful
…but the money hasn’t actually moved yet.
That’s because payments run on different rails, each with its own timelines and rules.
We wrote a guide for developers 🧵
ALT How money moves on Rails
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Honest question for developers:
What’s the longest time you’ve spent debugging a bug that turned out to be something very small?
We’re talking:
• missing env variable
• wrong API key
• one typo
• wrong webhook URL
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Payments look easy until you handle:
- retries
- timeouts
- duplicate webhooks
- partial failures
Developers after implementing all the edge cases:
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Monday reminder for devs:
You don’t need a full rewrite.
You don’t need a new framework.
You don’t need another tool.
You just need to ship the next small improvement.
Let’s go 🚀🚀🚀
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Don’t fall for trends; choose the payment rail that works best for your clients and for your system. If you ask us, base your decision on user experience, system simplicity, and operational clarity.
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New week. Fresh commits. Fewer excuses.
Ship the thing you kept “almost finishing” last week.
You’ve got this.
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Building for scale starts with the right primitives. 🏗️
We are pulling back the curtain on the infrastructure behind Africa’s largest stablecoin and merchant payment initiatives.
Join us for Turnkey Unlocked with Joshua Oguntade from @OurNuvion, @Turnkey’s Michael Lewellen, and our own Mercy Emmanuel.
We’ll be discussing:
✅ Embedded Wallet Infrastructure: Why security and UX must coexist.
✅ Reliability: Managing high-volume cross-border flows without friction.
✅ The Stack: Integrating Nuvion’s AI-driven banking and Turnkey’s security model with Flutterwave.
Don't miss it, 📅 Feb. 19 | 5 PM WAT
🔗 Set your reminder: nitter.net/i/spaces/1gqGvrNnwvWGB…
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Be honest…
How many times did you say
“I should automate this”
…then still did it manually anyway? 😭
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It’s Monday.
That thing you said “I’ll refactor later” last week…
Yeah. It’s now the first task of the week. 😅
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OpenAI drops a new Codex app and you download it instantly.
Meanwhile the last AI tool you installed is just sitting there like, “so… was I a joke to you?” 😅
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It’s Friday, and if you’re like a lot of devs this week, you’ve probably spent more time with an AI assistant than your keyboard 😅
AI tools are changing how we build, debug, and learn code. Worth pausing to think about what that actually means.
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We’ve all been there.
You just want to test an API… and suddenly you’re filling business forms you don’t even have yet 😅
That’s exactly what we tried to fix in v4.
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Stablecoins vs cards vs bank transfers.
They’re not competing. They’re good at different jobs.
Here’s when each one actually wins, from an engineering point of view.
🧵👇🏽
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We keep seeing fintech devs treat stablecoins as something “completely new.”
In practice, most of the mental models already exist. You’ve shipped these systems before, just on different rails.
ALT Traditional Payment rails vs. Stablecoin rails
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Stablecoins aren’t a crypto experiment for fintech devs anymore.
They’re becoming another payment rail.
If you build systems that move money across borders, you’ll run into them sooner than later.
🧵👇🏽
ALT Illustration of how stablecoins will enable fintech
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B2B payments are not just “bigger checkout flows.”
They involve large amounts, long approval chains, and way more places for things to go wrong.
One bad payment can cost real money, trust, and a very uncomfortable meeting.
ALT Authentication flow for B2B using 3DS2
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There’s a lot happening in AI right now.
Agents, tools, frameworks, sub agents, skills, new releases every week. 😓
If you feel like you’re falling behind, you’re not alone. Even very smart people are saying the same thing.
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We’ve been seeing the ongoing conversations about building your own authentication vs using a third party provider.
This question comes up in almost every serious engineering team at some point.
Here’s how to think about it:
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Black Friday might be over, but December traffic is a different beast entirely.
More users. More retries. More late night “is prod okay?” checks.
Holiday shopping does not slow down, it levels up. 🎄👀
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Mic check done, slides loaded, speakers ready.
Fintech Evenings is officially starting. Join us. 🦋
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It’s another Monday in December.
Everyone is buying gifts, sending money home, and stress testing your payment system like it owes them rent. 🎁🌍
If your app handles global users, this month is basically boss level mode.
ALT cross-border payment flow
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We’re breaking down the new V4 APIs tomorrow in an open X Space hosted by @ichuloo, with our CEO @techprod_arch, CTO (Interim) @ObatomiT, and DevEx Lead @corneliusyaovi.
If you’ve ever integrated our APIs or plan to, this conversation is for you.
See you!
Join here 👉 nitter.net/i/spaces/1lDxLBa…
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Devs, this one is for you.
After months of rebuilding and refining, the Flutterwave V4 APIs are now available in Public Beta.
They come with:
🔐 OAuth 2.0 Authentication
⚡ Faster, predictable flows
🧪 Scenario-based testing
📚 Cleaner documentation
🧩 Simplified payment flows
…and much more.
Your integration experience just got a major upgrade.
Try it out & share your feedback with us.
Get started here - dev.to/flutterwaveeng/introd…
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Fintech Evening is back.
A chill session where we look at the wins, the lessons, and what is coming next in fintech.
It is fintech after hours, so expect deep conversations, real experiences, and a small end of year hangout. 🎉
Come through and RSVP here 👇
form.typeform.com/to/YrpJmNp…
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It’s that time of year when everyone is shopping, checking out, refunding, retrying, and generally stress-testing your entire payments stack.
More traffic means more… everything. Including security risks. 👀🔐
ALT Shopping
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It’s Thursday.
What’s one thing you swore you’d finish this week but absolutely did not?
Asking for accountability and curiosity. 😅
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Black Friday traffic is already knocking and every payments engineer is quietly hoping their lookup layer does not start sweating under pressure 🤔
High volume has a funny way of exposing slow paths.
ALT Caching
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New week. Fresh coffee. Hopefully that build you pushed on Friday still works 🤔
If you are building anything fintech right now, here is your reminder that scaling takes more than clean code. You need real customer problems, a solid revenue plan, and infrastructure that can survive traffic spikes without melting.
ALT Building scalable fintech
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Happy Friday devs 🎉
Anyone pushing to production today, or are we all pretending the deploy button does not exist until Monday? 😂
What are you working on today?
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Google antigravity 🧐
Keeping up with new AI coding assistants these days feels like chasing a moving target. Every week there’s a new tool promising magic.
If you already have one that works for you, stick with it. If you haven’t found your match yet, test a few and see what fits your flow.
Which AI tools are you using in your development workflow right now? 👇
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November and December are coming with their usual traffic storm. Black Friday rush, holiday spending, year end settlements. This is the season when transactions spike hard and every system gets tested.
If your app is not ready to scale horizontally, this is the time to prepare.
ALT Vertical Scaling vs. Horizontal Scaling
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Another day 🌞
You don’t need to build the next big thing today.
You just need to make something a little better than it was last week.
Ship small. Break stuff. Learn fast.
And most importantly, make SACRIFICES!!!
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