# Fern API - Pooja Shah

- Channel: [ETHGlobal](https://streameth.org/ethglobal)
- Date: 2025-10-09
- Duration: 31:34
- Topics: Fern API, global money movement, crypto to fiat payments, fiat to crypto onramp, multi-chain EVM wallets, gas sponsored wallets, cross-border payments API, developer payment infrastructure, KYC API integration, hosted KYC forms, third-party payment accounts, Fern Multiplex, currency conversion API, auto fiat accounts, crypto swaps, developer fee monetization, fintech API, payment account registration, global payout system, Fern dashboard
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-grdPIOJV8N0
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grdPIOJV8N0

## Description

Learn how to integrate Fern’s global money movement infrastructure into your crypto and fintech applications. In this workshop, Fern founder Pooja Shah walks through the Fern API, its core concepts, and real-world workflows to help you seamlessly bridge fiat and crypto in your product.

You’ll discover how to:

-Provision multi-chain EVM wallets with gas sponsorship
-Enable fiat on/off ramps, foreign exchange, and crypto swaps
-Register and manage customers, payment accounts, quotes, and transactions
-Use hosted forms for KYC/KYB and bank account registration
-Automate payment flows between first-party and third-party accounts
-Set developer fees to monetize transactions
-Build on Fern’s Multiplex with liquidity providers, compliance, and routing

Pooja also covers setup via the Fern dashboard, how to fund your billing wallet, best practices for on/off ramp workflows, and how to get support through Fern’s Discord and in-dashboard help system. Whether you’re creating DeFi apps, payment platforms, or global payout systems, Fern offers the building blocks to launch fast and scale with ease.

00:10 Introduction & workshop outline
00:59 What is Fern
01:27 Core building blocks of the Fern API
02:57 Supported funds flows
05:35 Fern Multiplex architecture
07:28 Supported fiat currencies
08:25 Getting started via the Fern dashboard
10:41 Core API concepts: Customers, accounts, quotes, transactions
14:29 Common on/off ramp workflow
15:10 KYC/KYB verification methods
17:39 Registering payment accounts & wallets
19:34 External bank accounts & hosted forms
21:19 Fern auto fiat accounts
22:50 First- and third-party account registration
23:10 Creating quotes: source & destination details
24:35 Developer fees & monetization
26:08 Crypto-only vs fiat transactions
26:30 Creating transactions from quotes
27:48 Transfer instructions & fund movement
28:41 KYC requirements for fiat transactions
29:05 How to get support & join Fern’s Discord
31:03 Closing remarks

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