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# The global opportunity

> $31.6 trillion of business payments cross borders each year, and stablecoins carry under 1% of it. Corridor starts on Africa's trade corridors and expands along the same trade routes.

Every import is a payment out of one country and every export a payment into another. The licensed companies that move those payments are starting to settle them in stablecoins, across several providers and chains at once. Corridor is the ledger they run that on.

## The size of the flow

| Measure | Value | Source |
| - | - | - |
| All cross-border payments, 2024 | **\$194.6T** | [FXC Intelligence](https://www.fxcintel.com/research/press-releases/new-data-cross-border-payments-market-now-worth-over-194tn-and-is-forecast-to-reach-320tn-by-2032) |
| Cross-border B2B payments, 2024 | \*\*$31.6T**, forecast $50T by 2032 | FXC Intelligence |
| Real stablecoin payments, 2025 | **\$390B** | [McKinsey and Artemis Analytics](https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/week-in-charts/stablecoins-find-their-niche) |
| of which B2B | **\$226B**, the largest category | McKinsey and Artemis Analytics |

B2B stablecoin payments are already the largest kind of real stablecoin payment, and they are still **under 1%** of cross-border B2B flow. The room to grow is in exactly the segment Corridor serves: licensed companies paying businesses across borders.

<Info>
  McKinsey and Artemis separate real payments from the much larger headline stablecoin volume (up to \$35T a year), most of which is trading and internal transfers. Corridor sizes against real payments only.
</Info>

## Why start in Africa

Africa's corridors are the hardest version of the problem, which makes them the best place to prove the product:

* **Expensive and slow:** some of the most expensive payment journeys in the world, with T+1 to T+3 settlement through correspondent banks.
* **Already on stablecoins:** \$205B moved on-chain in Sub-Saharan Africa last year, up 52%, and 43% of the region's volume is stablecoins. See [First market: Africa](/market/africa-stablecoin-flows).
* **Many providers per payout:** remitters and business-FX firms already combine several stablecoin providers and local payout partners, so the reconciliation problem is acute.
* **Trade in both directions:** diaspora and B2B payouts into Africa, and importers paying suppliers in China, India, the UAE and the Americas.

## How it expands

The product is not regional. A corridor is just a currency pair, the Corridor Reference already encodes 32 currencies across four regions, and each new payout or liquidity partner is one adapter that reaches every existing customer.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Europe → Africa">
    Licensed remitters and payout companies, starting with EUR → NGN.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Africa → Asia">
    Importers paying suppliers in China and Hong Kong (NGN → CNY), on the same integration.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Along the trade routes">
    Latin America, the Middle East and South and Southeast Asia, wherever licensed companies settle cross-border B2B payments in stablecoins across more than one provider.
  </Step>
</Steps>


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