Octopus Fintech Hub joined the Pods Finance Global Neobank Alliance as an ecosystem partner.
Together with infrastructure providers and operators we evaluate and support early-stage neobanks, bringing our experience in go-to-market, positioning and user acquisition.
Our first research made together with a member of the hub: Kadar and the team at Camino Treasury, who help neobanks earn T-bill yield on idle USDC and USDT.
It looks at stablecoin yield from the user’s side: what makes people trust a yield product, and why a higher rate alone no longer sells it. Members read it first.
Founders, executives and investors from neobanking, payments and stablecoins on how their businesses actually work.
A stage for members to share what they know and argue about where the market is going.
OFH is built for founders, executives, investors, and senior operators across fintech, payments, stablecoins, neobanking, banking infrastructure, crypto infrastructure, and adjacent financial sectors.
We prioritize people who can meaningfully contribute to the network — through experience, partnerships, capital, infrastructure, distribution, or industry knowledge.
Octopus Fintech Hub is invite-only.
You can apply through the website or get referred by an existing member. Every application is reviewed by the Octopus team before access is granted.
Yes. Access to the core Octopus Fintech Hub community is currently free for approved members.
We intentionally keep the community selective rather than monetizing access through a mass paid-membership model.
Not automatically.
We generally prioritize founders, C-level executives, heads of departments, investors, and other senior decision-makers rather than adding entire company teams.
The network includes companies across neobanking, payments, stablecoin infrastructure, wallets, BaaS, cards, on/off-ramps, OTC, compliance, security, lending, investment, and other financial infrastructure.
Members include founders and operators from both early-stage companies and established global fintech players.
OFH is designed around high-signal interaction rather than constant chat activity.
Members use the network to find partners and infrastructure providers, exchange industry insights, source commercial opportunities, meet investors and founders, make introductions, and connect around major fintech and crypto events.
No.
Stablecoins and digital assets are an important part of the network, but OFH is broader than crypto. We bring together traditional fintech, banking, payments, stablecoin infrastructure, investors, and financial institutions.
No.
Alongside startups and scale-ups, we welcome banks, EMIs, payment institutions, stablecoin issuers, infrastructure providers, VCs, funds, and other institutional participants.
No.
We care more about relevance and the quality of the individual than company size or funding stage. An early-stage founder building something important can be just as relevant to the network as an executive from a large financial institution.
Selectively.
We generally accept service and infrastructure providers when their offering is genuinely relevant to community members and when the representative joining is sufficiently senior.
The community is not intended for unsolicited mass selling.
Relevant announcements, launches, requests, partnerships, hiring needs, and industry updates are welcome.
Repeated unsolicited promotion, mass outreach, or spam is not.
The best way to generate business inside OFH is by being useful and building relationships.
Yes, provided the outreach is relevant and respectful.
OFH is designed to facilitate direct relationships between members, but access to the community should never be treated as a cold-lead database.
Yes.
Where there is a strong fit, the Octopus team can help connect members with potential partners, clients, infrastructure providers, investors, or other relevant people within the network.
The community is international, with particularly strong representation across Europe, the UAE, Asia, LatAm, and other major fintech markets.
The value of OFH comes from the quality and relevance of the people inside it.
Keeping membership curated allows members to speak more openly, reach decision-makers directly, and maintain a much higher signal-to-noise ratio than in large public fintech communities.
A trusted private network connecting the people building, financing, distributing, and providing infrastructure for the next generation of financial products.
The goal isn't to become the biggest fintech community.
It's to become one of the most useful ones.