It’s slow
A bank transfer takes one to three business days. Nothing moves at night, at the weekend or on a holiday, because the systems underneath were designed decades ago.
Antara
Antara
Instant. Any currency. Yours alone. Antara is the app that makes money work the way everything else on your phone already does.
You can send a photo across the world in a second, for free. Sending the same person fifty dollars takes days, costs a fee you only find out about later, and sits in an account someone else controls.
A bank transfer takes one to three business days. Nothing moves at night, at the weekend or on a holiday, because the systems underneath were designed decades ago.
The exchange rate you get is rarely the one you saw. The difference, plus a fee or two, is taken on the way through. You find out when the money arrives.
Your balance is a line in someone else’s ledger. An account can be limited, frozen or closed without asking you, and you wait on a phone line to find out why.
Antara keeps every currency in one wallet on your phone, and moves it the way the internet moves everything else: now, and in the open.
Create your wallet. Download the app and your keys are made on your phone. Write down the recovery words and you are done.
Verify yourself once. Scan your ID and take a selfie. It takes a few minutes and you never do it again, in Antara or in any other app on the same network.
Add money. You get your own US account and routing number for transfers and payroll, plus wire details for euros, pounds, pesos, yen and more.
Use it like money. Pay people by their @name, convert between currencies, and send to bank accounts in more than 60 countries.
Powered by KeetaAntara runs on the Keeta Network, an open payment network built for money rather than for speculation. Transfers settle in under a second and cost a fraction of a cent. Your verified identity is attached to your own account, so you prove who you are once and every app on the network can rely on it.
We did not build the network, and we do not need to. We built the app that makes it feel like something you would use every day.
About the Keeta NetworkA payment is complete the moment it arrives. There is no pending state and nothing to reverse later.
Your identity check lives on your account as a certificate you control. Share it where you want, or not at all.
Your account is not locked to Antara. Other apps on the network can read it, pay it and build for it.
Only the keys on your phone can move your money. Not the network, not Antara, not a service provider.
No. Antara is an app, made by Alpaca LLC. It is not a bank, a money transmitter or a custodian, and it never holds your money or your keys.
Bivo Inc., a licensed money transmitter (NMLS #2572288), provides the currency balances, deposits, bank payouts and conversions, after your one-time identity check.
Footprint verifies your ID once. The result is a certificate on your own account. Antara reads it; it does not keep a copy of your documents.
Every fee is shown before you confirm. There are no monthly fees and no subscriptions. Payments between Antara users cost a fraction of a cent.
The app is on the App Store and Google Play. Bank features open after identity verification and depend on your country of residence.
Your wallet comes back from the recovery words you wrote down when you created it. Keep them safe; nobody, including us, can restore a wallet without them.
Alpaca, the company behind Antara, also runs an exchange on the Keeta Network where tokens are launched and traded. It lives in the same app, behind the Trade tab, for the day you are curious.
About the exchangeCreate a wallet in a minute, pay a friend in a second. Your money, moving like a message.
Antara is not a bank and never holds your money or your keys. Currency balances, deposits, bank payouts and conversions are provided by Bivo Inc., a licensed money transmitter (NMLS #2572288), after a one-time identity check. Payments between Antara users settle on the Keeta Network in seconds.