---
title: "Vesseo Case Study"
description: "Learn how we helped to scale Vesseo App, a global USDC wallet on Stellar."
url: "https://cheesecakelabs.com/portfolio/vesseo"
locale: "en"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T20:44:53.048Z"
---

# Vesseo Case Study

> Learn how we helped to scale Vesseo App, a global USDC wallet on Stellar.

**Client:** Vesseo

### Building a robust, cross-platform mobile experience

**Golang deployed**: The backend was enhanced using Golang. Now, it’s ready to handle higher transaction volumes and an increase in user numbers.

**Improving the mobile app**: React Native was chosen for Vesseo's mobile app, ensuring high performance and accessibility for iOS and Android users.

### Simplifying UX & UI to drive adoption and trust

**An inclusive user interface:** We revamped Vesseo's user interface for simplicity and accessibility, which are crucial improvements for their financial inclusion goals.

### Ensuring reliability and performance through DevOps integration

**Improved efficiency and uptime:** We introduced DevOps practices, ensuring continuous integration and deployment, and boosting operational efficiency and uptime.

### Enabling seamless fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-fiat transactions

**MoneyGram integration:** Vesseo now integrates with the leading cross-border payments platform, MoneyGram. Users can move cash in and out of USDC at over 100,000 locations worldwide, expanding Vesseo's reach and offering a bridge between the digital and traditional financial ecosystems for users who may not have access to bank accounts. Through this global partnership, users can also withdraw cash in nearly any currency worldwide. And with instant P2P transfers, Vesseo balances can move seamlessly to another Vesseo user or to any wallet or exchange on the Stellar blockchain.

**Stellar SEP30:** We implemented Stellar’s SEP-30 protocol to simplify wallet recovery processes without requiring seed phrases, offering greater security and usability.

### Rewards system

A feature designed to engage users with region-based challenges and automatic payments upon completion. This feature was particularly useful in driving user interaction and retention.

### Aid Assist program integration

Aid Assist program integration
A custom backend solution integrating with the [UNHCR’s mass payment service](https://cheesecakelabs.com/portfolio/stellar-aid-assist/), distributing aid to those affected by the war in Ukraine. The solution allowed for seamless verification and wallet address synchronization for receiving funds.

### QR code payments

A new feature that enables users to pay directly at local shops in Argentina and Brazil with USDC, bringing digital dollars into everyday transactions.

### Virtual USD accounts

Users can now open a free virtual account in the US to receive payments from employers or customers instantly into their Vesseo wallet.

### Local bank withdrawals

In Argentina and Brazil, users can withdraw funds directly to their local bank accounts, making it easier to bridge digital and traditional finance.

### Visa Vesseo debit card (coming soon)

A direct Visa Vesseo debit card will auto-convert USDC into local fiat currency at the moment of purchase, improving flexibility for global spending.

### A scalable backend system supporting global growth

The new features drove a **30% increase in app transaction volume** and now Vesseo's platform is ready to serve a higher volume of users and funds.  With new features that support earning, sending, spending, and withdrawing across multiple regions, the platform now empowers users with greater financial freedom in their daily lives.

### Financial inclusion for the masses

Vesseo now enables users worldwide, including underserved regions, to **convert local currency to USDC through MoneyGram's integration at 100,000+ locations**, providing essential protection against inflation and seamless cross-border remittances.

### Reduced friction and increased retention

With wallet accessibility and performance issues resolved, Vesseo has mitigated its retention concerns, besides **enhancing app responsiveness and faster load times for a smoother user experience.**

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