What we shipped

• Business accounts on mobile — foundations. Team, onboarding, and cashier screens plus in-app business verification (rolling out).

• More reliable sign-in. Reopening the app after it's been closed no longer occasionally signs you out.
• Stay up to date. You'll now be prompted when a newer version is required.
• Clearer trading & wallet. Rates reflect what you'll actually receive, with a broad clarity pass across balances, amounts, and receipts.
• More reliable sessions. Sign-in and session handling are steadier, so a brief hiccup no longer logs you out.

(This update is a new app version — update from the App Store or Play Store to get it.)

• Clearer, more honest trade pricing. Buy and sell prices now come from a single, transparent pricing engine, and rates are shown the way you'll actually receive them.
• Business accounts — foundations. The backend for team accounts, roles, invitations, and business verification (KYB) is now in place, ahead of the Business Suite rollout.
• A richer asset experience. Clearer asset classification and finer per-asset controls, so the assets you trade are managed more carefully.

• Stronger crypto custody. Our custody integration was upgraded and hardened, with extra safeguards on deposits and withdrawals so funds credit reliably and correctly.
• Faster wallet & portfolio. Balances, portfolio value, and account screens load faster and more accurately.

• More reliable sign-in. Reopening the app no longer occasionally signs you out.
• Stronger money-movement protection. Extra safeguards across money-moving actions, including protections that help prevent duplicate or mistaken transactions.

• Dozens of reliability, correctness, and performance improvements across trading, payments, and custody — shipped on a hardened, well-tested release pipeline.

• Safer trades by default. Every instant trade now requires a stable safety key, so a network retry or double-tap can't fire a second trade — replays are de-duplicated instead of executing twice.
• No deposit left behind. Crypto deposits that can't be matched to an account are now held safely in a suspense ledger and resolved by support, instead of being dropped.
• A constant watch over every balance. Continuous reconciliation and crash-recovery hardening across trade settlement — automatic unwinding of partial trades, recovery of stuck trades, and guarantees that a settlement can never debit without crediting.

• Clearer trade history. Failed trades now appear in your history with a clear status and no balance impact, and trades no longer show as two separate rows.
• More accurate trade records. Trade records now carry a precise, consistently-denominated execution rate for clearer display.
• Business wallet fixes. Improved account resolution for business wallets, including more flexible handling of quote amounts.

• Stronger pair controls. Pair availability is now enforced server-side — an unavailable pair is either declined clearly or transparently resolved to the right market, with no change needed on your side.
• Slimmer trading data. Internal operator-only fields are no longer included in the public pairs response; every field the apps read is unchanged.

(A note on integrations: instant trades now require a non-empty safety key — all shipped 80eight apps already send one; only direct API integrations need to check.)

• Safer payments. Sending crypto or paying over 88Pay is now guarded against accidental double-sends — a quick double-tap can't send twice.
• Live market charts. The markets list and home screen now show real price sparklines, with cleaner charts and tidier navigation.
• Smoother app launch. No more white flash on startup, plus a refreshed slide-to-confirm.
• Reliable auto-stack timing. Recurring auto-stack purchases now keep the exact time you set, handled consistently in your local time.

• Receiving and deposits. Fixed a "this asset doesn't have a wallet" error on brand-new installs, and the deposit reference now shows even if you haven't linked a bank account yet.
• For business accounts. A wave of fixes to business onboarding, the business home cash-flow view, deposits, and trading.

(Coming soon: the gentle "your app is out of date" reminder switches on per-environment when ready.)

• Safer payments. Sending, withdrawing, and buying are now protected against accidental double-submits — a quick double-tap or a retried request can't move your money twice.
• Hardened account management. Fixes to password reset, two-factor settings, anti-phishing, and PIN verification, plus a tighter guard on the trade-confirmation screen.

• Accurate withdrawal fees. The withdrawal screen now shows the actual fee from the live quote — and the exact amount you'll receive — instead of a fixed estimate.
• Clearer notifications. Improved display for business, account, and PIN-reset notifications.
• Invite improvements. Your referral code now shows on the Invite screen, matching the mobile app.

(Coming soon: business tools — Business Suite, Pay Links, and in-store payments — continue to be hardened behind the scenes and will switch on for eligible accounts in a future update.)

• More assets settle first time. Fixes buys of certain assets (for example, ETH and SOL) that were failing at the final step after a precision regression. Your funds were always released untouched, and the trade now completes.
• A clear message when a trade can't complete. When a trade can't go through, the app now receives a clear, human-readable message instead of a generic server error.

(Operationally after release: two crypto-withdrawal reliability fixes so withdrawals reliably reach custody.)

• More assets settle first time. Fixes a case where buys of certain assets (for example, ETH) could fail at the final step. Your funds were always released untouched, and the trade now completes.

• Nothing left half-done. If a multi-step trade can't be completed after it has already partly executed, the executed part is now automatically unwound — so the platform never holds inventory you didn't ask for, and nothing is left half-finished.

• Trades complete from the latest build. Resolves a case where instant trades placed from the latest app build could fail at the first step. As always, your funds were released untouched — nothing was ever lost — but the trade now completes.
• Accurate display rates. Improves the accuracy of the displayed ZAR exchange rate so it matches the rate trades actually execute at.

(Operationally this window: a crypto-withdrawal reliability fix and recovery for any previously-stuck withdrawal transactions.)

• Smarter venue routing. For the major ZAR pairs, the engine now picks the venue by trade size automatically — small trades execute directly on the local exchange, larger ones via the OTC desk — so trades below the OTC desk's minimum, which previously failed, now complete.
• Two blocking cases hardened. Two upstream-rejection cases that were stopping trades are resolved, with the real reason now surfaced internally when a venue rejects an order.

(Operationally this window: ZAR withdrawal limits raised to R1m per day and R30m per month, and admin crypto approve/reject endpoints documented to fix a tooling error.)

• All-or-nothing trades. For instant trades that route through an intermediate currency (for example, buying an asset with ZAR via USDT), the engine now confirms every leg can be priced before it executes any of them. If a leg can't be priced, the whole trade is declined up front and your funds are released untouched.
• A guaranteed referral code. Every user now has a unique referral code — the code you share so sign-ups attribute back to you. Existing codes are preserved.

• Withdrawals unblocked. Resolves a regression where some mobile users hit "Something went wrong" on every fiat withdrawal — withdrawals work normally again.

• Safer operations. Hardened internal tooling so operator-set states are preserved by default, with safer maintenance routines and a read-only data-integrity audit.

• Withdrawals work again. If you'd recently seen "Something went wrong" when tapping Withdraw, that's resolved — your withdrawal request goes through as expected.

• More reliable sign-in. Continued improvements to how the app keeps you signed in securely on your device, building on the security work in earlier 2.0 releases.
• Smoother future releases. Build-pipeline tweaks behind the scenes.

• Native "Continue with Apple" on iPhone. Tapping Continue with Apple now opens the built-in iOS Sign-in-with-Apple sheet, with Face ID or Touch ID — quicker, more familiar, and without leaving the app.

• 88Pay handles resolve again. If you'd seen "88Pay isn't ready yet" despite having a valid handle, that's fixed — your handle loads and you can send and receive over 88Pay as expected.
• Your full trading balance. Your trading wallet, crypto list, and individual asset screens now show the total value you hold — available plus anything locked in an order — instead of only the available amount. The amounts you can actually spend are unchanged.
• Smoother market screens. Resolved a class of crashes on the markets and chart screens when price data came back in an unexpected shape, and tightened which business actions appear based on how your account is set up.
• Complete deposit details. The Make-a-Deposit screen now shows the full bank account number and account type alongside the bank name, branch, SWIFT, and your reference.
• Friendlier sign-in and polish. Clearer sign-in error messages, now baked in for fresh installs, plus refreshed app-icon assets on the store listing.

• A gentle "your app is out of date" reminder. Polite, one-tap, and fully dismissible — rolling out gradually.
• More ways to pay. Tap to pay people nearby, pay anyone even off 80eight, and personal pay links — in flight from the previous release; we'll let you know when they switch on.

(Behind the scenes, we're continuing to strengthen how your session is secured on your device.)

• Trades that can't overspend. Orders to our liquidity layer are now slippage-bounded and attempted on a single assigned venue, so a transient error can never double-execute an order and a buy can never exceed the amount you requested.
• A more secure session model. Clients can now choose how their session token is delivered — browser-only secure cookies, or token-in-body for native apps that hold their own credentials — with native apps able to store a rotating refresh token in a secure device keychain.
• More predictable sign-in. An explicit email-and-password sign-in always authenticates with those credentials rather than a stale session, so you reliably get a fresh token back, with consistent error responses across the auth surface.

• Stronger admin tooling. New internal controls back multi-jurisdiction company settings, push-campaign broadcasts, per-pair fee and trade configuration, and admin reset of two-factor — all internal admin-console APIs, not part of the public contract.

(Every change in this release is additive — clients that send no new headers keep their exact current behaviour.)

• A unique, branded reference. Your account reference — and therefore your bank deposit reference — is now guaranteed unique and 8-prefixed for everyone, generated through a single, consistent path across every sign-up route.
• A careful one-off backfill. A migration tidies up older references and keeps a full record of any change, so deposits sent against a previous reference can always be reconciled.

(No action needed for integrators — note only that an existing user's deposit reference may change when the migration runs.)

• 88Pay handles resolve again. If you'd seen "88Pay isn't ready yet" despite having a valid handle, that's fixed — your handle loads and you can send and receive over 88Pay.
• Your full trading balance. Your trading wallet, crypto list, and asset screens now show the total value you hold — available plus anything locked in an order — not just the spendable amount. The amounts you can spend are unchanged.
• Smoother market screens. Resolved a class of crashes on the markets and chart screens when price data came back in an unexpected shape, and tightened which business actions appear based on your account setup.
• Complete deposit details. The Make-a-Deposit screen now shows the full bank account number and account type alongside the bank name, branch, SWIFT, and your reference.

• Tidied data handling. Standardised how your account reference is read across the app and removed a piece of legacy code, with no change to anything you'll see or do.

• 88Pay to anyone. Send to any phone number — even someone who isn't on 80eight yet. They'll receive your payment and can claim it as soon as they sign up.
• See balances your way. Choose your display currency (USD or ZAR) across your wallet and the market, with your preference remembered between visits.
• Smoother identity verification. A more flexible verification experience that supports an additional provider, so getting verified is faster and more reliable.
• Cleaner buy and sell. More accurate balances and pricing, with sensible fallbacks when market data is briefly unavailable — plus a tidier transaction history and quality-of-life polish across the app.

• Hardened account security. Strengthened account and data protection across payments and wallets, including stronger two-factor protection on sensitive actions.
• A modern foundation. Re-engineered on a fully-typed TypeScript codebase and the v2 platform, with expanded automated testing and new, more reliable hosting.

• Business Suite. Dedicated business accounts and wallets.
• Accept payments. In-store point-of-sale and shareable payment links, with scan-to-pay.
• Business ZAR8 yield. Earn yield on your business ZAR8.

(These are not yet switched on — watch this space.)

• A more premium feel. App-wide haptics, a refreshed "liquid glass" design, a signature launch sound, and slide-to-confirm on important actions — small touches that make 80eight feel fast and considered. (Haptics can be turned off and respect Reduce Motion.)
• See balances your way. View amounts in USD or ZAR across your wallet and the market — while your actual rand cash balance always stays clearly in ZAR.
• Smoother identity verification. A more flexible verification step that supports an additional provider, so getting verified is quicker and more reliable.
• Cleaner sign-in and onboarding. Friendlier error messages, improved country and date-of-birth pickers, and signing up now drops you straight into a working wallet.
• Stronger account security. Your session is now protected with hardware-backed device security, and you'll stay signed in more reliably with fewer surprise logouts.
• Faster, lighter, more reliable. Push alerts that stop mid-session now recover on their own and sign-out clears your notifications and badge; screens are faster and lighter, with smoother history scrolling, a redesigned receipt screen, and polish across the launchpad, drawer, and account menu.

• Protection throughout. Strengthened account, payment, and on-device security across the app, including safeguards that help prevent duplicate or mistaken transactions.
• A modern foundation. Rebuilt on Expo SDK 55 with over-the-air updates, expanded automated testing, and a hardened build pipeline.

• Tap to pay people nearby. Find other 80eight users right next to you over Bluetooth and pay them with a tap — no QR codes or typing handles.
• Pay anyone, even off 80eight. Send to a phone number or email; they'll get your payment and can claim it after signing up.
• Personal pay links. Create and share payment-request links from your personal account, with rich previews when shared.
• In-store payments. A refreshed merchant cashier experience with scan-to-pay.

(These aren't switched on yet — watch this space.)

• Stronger account security. Sign-in now uses secure, browser-protected sessions with built-in protection against cross-site request forgery — a meaningful step up in how your account and your money are protected.
• More reliable identity verification. We added a second verification provider and consolidated how identity checks work, so getting verified is faster and more dependable.
• Compliance, built in. Expanded regulatory and travel-rule tooling so transfers stay compliant as 80eight grows.
• More to hold and earn. New assets, a refreshed asset experience, and the ZAR8 yield programme.
• Faster wallet and trading. More reliable wallet, trading, and transaction experiences, with more accurate balances and pricing.

• Account protection throughout. Strengthened authentication, two-factor protection, and account-access controls across the platform, with sensitive and money-moving actions protected by additional verification.
• Hardened money movement. Strengthened payments and account data across the board, including safeguards that help prevent duplicate or mistaken transactions.
• A modern foundation. Re-engineered on a modern, fully-typed platform with expanded automated testing, new and more reliable hosting, and a hardened release pipeline.

• New ways to pay. We're putting the finishing touches on major new ways to pay people and businesses, rolling out gradually. (Not switched on yet — watch this space.)