Platform Architecture & Engine

The Core Middleware Processing Millions of Airtime & Fintech Transactions Daily

NexusCraft combines a high-throughput Unified Operator Gateway with an immutable, real-time Automated Reconciliation Engine.

Deep Dive 01

Unified Operator Gateway

One ingress contract in front of every carrier connection, engineered for transaction-grade volume and predictable failure behaviour.

Bi-Directional Payload Normalization

SOAP/XML, ISO 8583 and socket payloads translated to a single canonical JSON contract — and back — on every hop.

Intelligent Traffic Management

Per-operator health scoring, weighted routing and circuit breaking keep degraded rails out of the live path.

High-Throughput Kafka/Redis Ingestion

Partitioned event ingestion with Redis-backed hot state sustains 10,000+ transactions per second without backpressure.

Configurable Retry & DLQs

Idempotent retry policies per operator, with dead-letter queues and replay tooling for anything that falls out of band.

Deep Dive 02

Automated Ledger & Reconciliation Engine

Every transaction is committed as an atomic three-way match. If any leg fails to settle, the entry is isolated for dispute rather than silently absorbed.

Leg 1

Bank Debit

Institution account debited and pre-authorised.

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Leg 2

Dealer Margin

Commission posted against the dealer's float position.

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Leg 3

MNO Fulfillment Receipt

Operator confirmation closes the atomic transaction.

Dispute isolation

Unmatched legs are quarantined into a dispute ledger with full payload evidence, so a single operator timeout never contaminates settlement for the wider book.

Multi-level sub-dealer float

Hierarchical float pools with inherited credit limits, per-tier margin schedules and real-time depletion alerts across every level of the distribution tree.

Platform specifications

Engine Dimension	Technical Specification	Operational Impact
Latency	< 180ms median end-to-end	Top-ups complete inside the customer's session
Uptime SLA	99.99% contractual	Roughly 4 minutes of budgeted downtime per month
Security	mTLS · TLS 1.3 · AES-256	Passes bank vendor security review without exceptions
Throughput	10,000+ TPS sustained	Peak-season volume absorbed without queueing

Route Status API

Query live operator health and float balances

nexuscraft — platform/routes/status

RequestGET

GET /v1/platform/routes/status HTTP/1.1
Host: api.nexuscraft.co
Authorization: Bearer sk_live_••••••••••••
Accept: application/json

Response200 OK

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-nexuscraft-latency: 41ms

{
  "generated_at": "2026-08-12T11:04:22Z",
  "routes": [
    {
      "operator_code": "MTN_NG",
      "health_score": 0.99,
      "state": "ACTIVE",
      "median_latency_ms": 162,
      "float_balance": 84210500.00
    },
    {
      "operator_code": "AIRTEL_NG",
      "health_score": 0.87,
      "state": "DEGRADED",
      "median_latency_ms": 412,
      "float_balance": 31980250.00
    },
    {
      "operator_code": "GLO_NG",
      "health_score": 0.96,
      "state": "ACTIVE",
      "median_latency_ms": 198,
      "float_balance": 12460000.00
    }
  ],
  "failover_policy": "WEIGHTED_HEALTH_SCORE"
}