Beginner 8 min read
What is USDC?
What USDC is, what Circle says stands behind it, and the limits that remain.
Guides
Plain answers on holding, sending and getting paid in USDC from your own wallet.
Crypto comes with words nobody explains. These guides explain them. Each guide answers one question, shows what you will see in the Kudu app, and lists its sources: laws, regulators and the companies' own published pages, with the words we rely on.
All guides
Start here: how to use Kudu
Follow steps 1 to 3 in order. Open a guide under "When you need it" when you want to cash out, make an escrow contract or buy as a group.
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1. Set up your wallet
Open Kudu and create your wallet. Choose a PIN. Write your recovery phrase (24 words) on paper, in order, and keep it private. Anyone who has these 24 words can control your wallet.
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2. Get paid
Open Receive, then share your address or create a payment link.
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3. Send USDC
Open Send, enter who receives the USDC and the amount, then read the Confirm screen.
When you need it
Cash out
Open Cash out, enter the amount, then finish on MoneyGram's own page.
Make an escrow contract
Write the terms with the other person, choose a mediator together, then both of you sign.
Buy as a group
Join a group buy on a partner's own site, then follow it in your Kudu app.
USDC and money
What USDC is, what stands behind it, and how to get paid.
Beginner 5 min read
How to get paid from abroad into your own wallet
Send your client one address or one link, and be paid at your own address.
Your wallet
Your recovery phrase, and the checks to make before you send.
Beginner 6 min read
What is a non-custodial wallet
Whoever holds the keys can move the money in a wallet. This guide explains what that means and what you look after.
Beginner 8 min read
Your 24 words: what they are for and how to keep them
The 24 words are the master key to your wallet. How to write them down, and who must never see them.
Deals
Contracts and group buying, step by step.
Intermediate 7 min read
Escrow contracts in plain words
Pay in two parts, as the goods move. The contract applies the rules both sides agreed. You and the other party choose the mediator.
Intermediate 5 min read
How group buying works
Reach a minimum order together. How you join, how the group fills, and what happens to your payment.
Cash
How cash out works with MoneyGram.
Beginner 5 min read
How cash out works with MoneyGram
Turn USDC into cash at a MoneyGram location. What you do in Kudu and what MoneyGram does.
Rules and warning signs
What the EU rules say, and how to spot a scam.
In depth 6 min read
MiCA and your wallet: what changes for you
MiCA sets rules for tokens and for the companies that serve you. Here is what the text says about wallets, with dates.
These guides are general information. They are not legal, financial or tax advice.
Send and get paid from your own wallet.
Send USDC to a Kudu member or to a Stellar address, and keep your USDC at your own address.