NURI.

Your money, freed.

Bitcoin & Lightning, stablecoins and local currencies in one self-custodial wallet.

One passkey. No seed phrase. Multisig protected. Web, iOS and Android.

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Pay. Get paid. Anywhere.

Global internet money

Bitcoin & Lightning and stablecoins for sending, receiving and paying globally.

Local currencies

Bank transfers, card and local payment rails where available.

One wallet

Pay in, convert, send and pay out without moving between separate apps.

One passkey. Your wallet.

Self-custody without the usual seed-phrase onboarding.

No exchange holding your Bitcoin. Multisig protection is built into the wallet architecture.

Self-custodial✓
No seed phrase✓
Passkey-based✓
Multisig protected✓
Recovery without Nuri✓
Read more about security →

Nuri’s deeper security layer includes independent recovery, hardware security keys and physical passkeys, hardware-wallet cosigning, open-source recovery tooling and programmable permissions.

The on-chain Cash App.

Cash App utility. Bitkey-style ownership. One passkey.

Everyday payments, global internet money and local rails — built on a wallet the user controls.

Built to operate globally.

130

countries in the current banking/card service footprint.

5

senior team members building the current Nuri product.

24/7

internet-native money across Bitcoin, Lightning and stablecoin rails.

Read more about the infrastructure →

The wallet is the durable layer. Banking, card, remittance and swap services are connected as replaceable rails.

Connected to real financial rails.

Current public Nuri materials describe live infrastructure across providers including:

Wirex
Monerium
ClickPesa
SwapKit

Partner and infrastructure claims are kept separate from investor claims.

How Nuri compares.

Only capabilities Nuri itself supports are used here.

CapabilityNuriCash AppBitkeyBlitzMuunBitwala
Self-custodial✓—✓✓✓✓
No seed phrase✓—✓—~✓
Passkey-based✓————~
Multisig protected✓—✓—✓~
Web + iOS + Android✓——✓——
Bitcoin & Lightning✓✓—✓✓~
Stablecoins✓✓—✓—✓
Card + bank transfers✓✓———✓
Open source · MIT✓—~—✓~
Read comparison notes →

Yellow means partial or materially different architecture. Competitor implementations should be re-checked immediately before publishing hard claims.

Open for people. Open for agents.

100% open source · MIT licensed

Semantic HTML, Markdown, llms.txt, OpenAPI and MCP surfaces give people and software the same product truth.

Developers → MCP →

Berlin roots. A new Nuri.

The name has history. The current Nuri is a new company and a new product architecture built around self-custody.

Read the Nuri / Bitwala history →

2014–2015: Bitwala grows out of Berlin’s early Bitcoin scene.

2021: Bitwala becomes Nuri.

2022: the original Nuri shuts down after insolvency.

2023: Bitwala returns separately.

15 Jan 2025: Bitwala announces the Nuri brand and nuri.com will move to new ownership and operate independently.

2025–2026: the current Nuri team rebuilds the product around passkeys, Bitcoin & Lightning, stablecoins and replaceable local rails.

Read Bitwala’s own announcement →

Built by a team with history.

Emin Mahrt · Founder

Emin has worked on Bitcoin, Ethereum, wallet infrastructure and fintech products since 2013, helped build æternity and later served as Chief Product Officer of Börse Stuttgart Digital Exchange.

Read more about the founder →

The current public Nuri investor briefing describes a senior five-person team. Emin’s background includes product engineering, Bitcoin since the early 2010s, æternity and regulated crypto-market infrastructure at Börse Stuttgart Digital Exchange.

LinkedIn →

GitHub →

Substack →

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