Your money, freed.

A self-custodial passkey wallet for Bitcoin & Lightning, stablecoins and local currencies.

No seed phrase in normal use. No exchange custody. No KYC for the self-custodial track. Card and banking services only when you choose them.

Your wallet is designed to keep working even if Nuri does not.

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Global internet money. Local currencies.

Bitcoin & Lightning first. Stablecoins for fast global payments. Local currencies when you want to spend, cash out or use existing payment systems.

Global internet money

Bitcoin & Lightning, stable USD and stable EUR.

Send money. Receive money. Get paid. Pay online. Move value person to person. Let software or AI prepare payments you approve.

Local currencies

Euro, Dollar and other local currencies through the rails available in your country.

Bank transfer. Visa. ACH. IBAN. Mobile Money. Cash out locally when you need to.

Global Internet Money ↔ Local Currencies
Bitcoin & Lightning ↔ Stablecoins ↔ Bank · Card · Mobile Money

Pay or get paid.

Nuri is a payments wallet, not a trading terminal.

Send Bitcoin & Lightning.
Receive Bitcoin & Lightning.
Send and receive stablecoins.
Swap between Bitcoin & Lightning, stablecoins and supported currencies.
Pay online.
Cash out locally.
Send a bank transfer.
Pay by card or Mobile Money where available.

Your wallet should work without us.

Self-custody only matters if the company behind the wallet is not required for you to keep owning your money.

Self-custodial. Nuri does not take custody of your Bitcoin or stablecoins.
Passkey secured. Your passkey is used to derive and protect wallet access.
No seed phrase in normal use. No twelve words to write down before you can start.
Multisig and co-signing. Security is designed around more than one path instead of one company-held key.
KYC-free self-custody. Identity verification belongs to regulated card and banking services, not to the right to hold your own money.
Open source. Wallet and recovery tooling can be inspected and independently used.
Read more about how recovery works

Nuri's current recovery design uses a passkey PRF, co-signing paths and time-based recovery so the user key remains the durable key. The published recovery design is intended to work offline without nuri.com or Nuri servers, provided the user still has the required passkey and recovery material.

Read the technical explanation on nuri.com

Wallet first. Services second.

The wallet is the durable product. Card, banking and local payment providers are replaceable ways to use it.

The part that should not depend on a bank

Bitcoin & Lightning. Stablecoins. Keys. Passkeys. Self-custody. Swaps. Global peer-to-peer payments.

The part that depends on where you live

Visa. IBAN. ACH. Mobile Money. Local currency access. KYC and provider eligibility where regulation requires it.

One name. Two stories. A clear fork.

Nuri has history. We think trust starts by explaining it clearly instead of hiding it.

2014
Bitwala starts in Berlin with the idea of making Bitcoin useful in everyday life.
2021
Bitwala is rebranded as Nuri and grows into a broader crypto-finance product.
2022
The former Nuri company files for insolvency. Bitwala's own history says the Celsius insolvency intensified the company's financial problems.
2023
The original founders relaunch their business under the Bitwala name.
2025 — THE FORK
Bitwala publicly announces that the Nuri brand and nuri.com are moving to new ownership. From this point forward, Bitwala and the new Nuri are independent products, companies and teams.
2025 →
The new Nuri is built around a different principle: self-custody first, with replaceable card, banking and local payment rails around the wallet.
Today
Nuri is operated by Nurisoft Development OÜ in Tallinn and is run by Emin Mahrt and the Nuri team. Bitwala continues separately under its own brand and team.
Read the source history

Bitwala: “Nuri.com is no longer part of Bitwala” — January 15, 2025

Bitwala's history of Bitwala and Nuri

Current Nuri company and product information

Today's Nuri. A new team.

A senior five-person team across product, engineering, business, operations and finance.

Emin Mahrt — Founder · Product
Cim Topal — CEO
Emil Wagner — Engineering
Lennard Evertz — Team
Frithjof Weinert — CFO
Read more about the company

Nuri is operated by Nurisoft Development OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia. The current product combines a passkey-based self-custodial wallet with provider-operated card and banking services. Self-custody applies to the wallet; regulated services have their own terms and eligibility.

Read the current Nuri About page

For people. For AI.

The same wallet can be used by you directly or through software you authorize. AI can prepare and operate within permissions; the user remains in control of the wallet and approvals.

Read more about agent access

Nuri exposes wallet and payment capabilities through machine-readable interfaces and agent tooling. The goal is not to give an agent unrestricted custody, but to let software work inside explicit permissions.

See the live Nuri agent interface

Bitcoin & Lightning first. Freedom to transact. Local rails when useful.

Your money, freed.

Own Bitcoin & Lightning. Use stablecoins. Connect local currencies when you need them. Keep the wallet yours.

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