the changelog
every change to the dataset
A directory is only as good as its maintenance, so the maintenance is public. Additions link to their profiles; removals stay on the record — neobanks die quietly, and the deaths are data too. Every entry below corresponds to a real change in data.json.
July 18, 2026368 tracked
data: regulation backfill for all 173 unclassified entities + site audit fixes
−5 removed: Z1, Fi Money, Juno, Kard, Pomelo
July 16, 2026373 tracked
ai tags: full-directory audit — 67 verified tags; remove liquidated Will Bank
−1 removed: Will Bank
July 16, 2026374 tracked
ai tags: apply verification results — 30 verified tags, drop 4 weak ones
July 16, 2026374 tracked
feat: ai tag (underwriting/interface/agentic) + narrative-check blog post
July 16, 2026374 tracked
data: infra map 36→106 providers, add Brighty + Tangem (directory 374)
July 16, 2026372 tracked
data+blog: add Plata and Veera, refresh Slash/Ualá/Kontigo, new growth post
July 16, 2026370 tracked
data: add Startale and Moto — the two cards missing from the crypto-card wave
July 16, 2026368 tracked
data: Oui Capital backs PaySika — its first Cameroon investment (2025)
~1 updated: PaySika
July 16, 2026368 tracked
data: add PaySika — chatbot-first neobank for francophone Africa, 368th entity
+1 added: PaySika
July 15, 2026367 tracked
data: add Mine (mine.financial) — Swiss self-custody money app, 367th entity
+1 added: Mine
July 15, 2026366 tracked
data: add Flex (flex.one) — 366th entity, fresh unicorn off its $70M Series B1
+1 added: Flex
July 7, 2026365 tracked
audit: close the metadata gaps on the seven newest entities — verified terms/privacy URLs (all HTTP-checked 200), X handles, countries for Lava, COCA, Karta, Hyperbeat, Bitget Wallet, BFinance, SurfCash; founders for Hyperbeat (Kilian Boshoff, 800.HL), SurfCash (Akshat Sharma, César Suárez), BFinance (Knyaz Yussupov); Hyperbeat $5.2M seed + investors (ether.fi Ventures, Electric Capital, Coinbase Ventures) and COCA (Stellar Development Foundation) added to the investor map with curated fund blurbs — investor pages 198→202, llms.txt synced
July 7, 2026365 tracked
fizen: retag to travel & digital nomads — its positioning is now explicitly 'crypto neobank for travel & QR payments' (Tether-backed)
~1 updated: Fizen
July 7, 2026365 tracked
dataset: +SurfCash — self-custodial USDC→local-QR-rails app (VietQR/PromptPay/Pix) for nomads in emerging markets, Circle Alliance, tagged travel & digital nomads; 364→365
+1 added: SurfCash
July 7, 2026364 tracked
the U-card index: new /stablecoin-cards/ page comparing all 90 stablecoin-spendable cards (custody, network, cashback, yield, KYC) — the consolidation the tier-list crowd keeps asking for; +Bitget Wallet and BFinance from the Paymentscan chart (Backpack card still unlaunched, skipped); Paymentscan added to the library; 362→364
July 7, 2026362 tracked
dataset: +4 nomad-wave money apps from the tier-list research — Lava (BTC credit line, custody U-turn Sept 2025), COCA (MPC self-banking, 1M users), Karta (Telegram self-custody card on Tempo), Hyperbeat (Liquid Banking on Hyperliquid); travel niche renamed 'travel & digital nomads' with Kolo, COCA, Karta tagged in; 358→362 everywhere, Moto excluded (waitlist-only)
July 6, 2026358 tracked
data: HongShan listed under two names (plain + 'Sequoia China' suffix) — merged to HongShan, 198 investors, stale page pruned; blog post counts updated
~1 updated: OPay
July 5, 2026358 tracked
add Flouci (Tunisia) — 358th entity: Kaoun's BCT-sandbox super-app, free bank account + wallet, Visa card, ~7% savings; bump count 357→358 sitewide
+1 added: Flouci
July 5, 2026357 tracked
data: add Oui Capital (first institutional cheque, TeamApt seed) to Moniepoint early investors
~1 updated: Moniepoint
July 5, 2026357 tracked
directory + profiles: early investors — top VCs per neobank with links (121 entities), in modal, static pages, data.json and JSON-LD funder
July 3, 2026357 tracked
link-rot repair, shareable filter URLs, search shortcut
July 3, 2026357 tracked
SEO, AI-agent surface, mobile & UX fixes — audit pass
dataset first published · 357 entities
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