Hey, we’re Helicarrier now.

What’s in a name?

Today, we turn 4 years old. I find it particularly poetic that our birthday coincides with the Nigerian Independence Day, for multiple reasons, but I digress.

For the past 3 years, we’ve been called Buycoins. We think it’s a great name, but recently, we’ve been feeling like it doesn’t do a good job of telegraphing all that we’ve become.

We’ve gone from a website for P2P Bitcoin trading to building:

• Buycoins — The easiest way to buy, sell and store cryptocurrencies in Africa.
• Buycoins Pro — Orderbook for advanced digital asset trading.
• Sendcash — Crypto powered remittance.
• Sendcash Pay — A suite of developer tools that let you add borderless payment experiences to your digital products.
• NGNT — A collateral-backed digital currency that bridges the Naira with the advantages of decentralized blockchain technology.

Throughout this evolution, our mission has remained the same — we want to financially connect the African, anywhere they are in the world. We believe two things:

1. Digital currencies and their underlying technology will help usher us towards this global open financial system.
2. For crypto mass adoption to happen, people need to be able to gain utility without having to interface with any of the associated technical complexities. Most people don’t understand TCP/IP or VoIP, but yet millions of people use tools built on these protocols daily.

Consequently, we see it as our responsibility to create not just seamless end-user experiences but also the infrastructure that makes it possible for others to build such too — and we’d like our company name to reflect this ethos.

We’re now Helicarrier.

And as always with us, it’s Day 1. Especially today.

If you’re curious about the origin of the name “Helicarrier”, read this thread.