A cryptocurrency trading platform, Paxful, has reported a surge in weekly transactions on its Lightning Network.
This rise is despite the Central Bank of Nigeria’s restrictions on cryptocurrency transactions in the country and the crashing prices of cryptocurrencies globally.
According to the platform, the volume of money sent by Nigerians via the network doubled from October 2021 to May 2022.
The statement from Paxful read in part, “Paxful, the leading global peer-to-peer (P2P) fintech platform announced that weekly transactions on the Lightning Network have increased tremendously.”
It added, “In Nigeria, the volume of money being sent out on Lightning has doubled from October 2021 to May 2022.”
The CEO, and founder of Paxful, Ray Youssef, noted that Nigeria was one of the countries with the highest Bitcoin trade volume in the first week of May this year.
He said, “In the first week of May, Nigeria was one of the countries with the highest Bitcoin trade volume on Paxful alongside the United States, Ghana, China, and Kenya. Today, we have over 70 countries using Lightning on Paxful.”
