Digital Cash Assistance Pilot for 1,200 Households

An aid team sends weekly support to recipients' wallets and lets them collect cash at local agents, with every payment visible to donors.

Who: A relief organisation working after a flood. An invented composite, not a customer; the numbers are example inputs, not results.

The problem

Running a cash assistance pilot for 1,200 households

After a flood, banks in the area are closed and many recipients never had accounts. Carrying cash is risky for staff and recipients alike.

Donors want to know that money reached people, not just that it left the organisation's account.

The setup

Recipient wallets
Recipients get a simple phone wallet during registration. Staff help with backup words on the spot.
Agent network
Local shops act as cash-out points through an anchor, paid a fixed fee per withdrawal agreed in advance.
Public ledger, private people
Payments are public on-chain; the list linking addresses to names stays with the organisation.

How it runs

1
Step 1
Each week the programme team sends a batch of USDG payments from one funding wallet.
2
Step 2
Recipients receive within a block and can spend, hold, or withdraw cash at an agent.
3
Step 3
Donors see the funding wallet's outflows on the explorer without seeing who the recipients are.
4
Step 4
At the end of the pilot, unused balances can be returned or redirected as the programme rules say.

Risks

Phones get lost. A recovery process needs to be agreed before day one.
Agent liquidity limits how much cash can leave a town per day; schedule payouts around it.
Batch payouts as a single contract call need a Gleo contract that is not deployed yet; until then each payment is its own transfer.

Try it

Illustrative

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