Who owns MiniPay?
MiniPay is owned by Kunlun Tech (China, SZSE: 300418) through its subsidiary Opera.[1]
Kunlun Tech owns 68% of Opera rather than all of it.
Evidence: Opera Limited Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended 31 December 2025, SEC EDGAR, 27 March 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Kunlun Tech Co., Ltd. via Opera verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇳 China, Beijing
- Origin
- 🇳🇴 Norway
- Category
- Internet & digital › Digital services › Payments
- Parent ticker
- SZSE: 300418
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About MiniPay
MiniPay is a self-custodial stablecoin wallet Opera first built into its mobile browsers and now also ships as a standalone Android and iOS app. It is aimed at emerging markets, identifies people by phone number rather than by wallet address, and runs on the Celo blockchain, supporting cUSD, USDC, USDT and Tether Gold. Opera reported roughly 14 million activated wallets and 420 million cumulative transactions by March 2026.
What Kunlun Tech's annual report says about MiniPay
Sentences about MiniPay from Kunlun Tech's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
In addition, with MiniPay, we face competition in emerging and evolving markets for digital wallets, and payment-enabled applications.
As a non-custodial crypto wallet, MiniPay competes with other custodial and non-custodial crypto wallet providers.
In addition, MiniPay competes with more established global and regional payment platforms, financial institutions, mobile operating 4 Table of Contents system providers, and fintech companies, many of which have greater brand recognition, user trust, regulatory experience, financial resources, and existing payment networks.
Ownership timeline of MiniPay
- Current owner Kunlun Tech via Opera [1] verified
Where MiniPay sits in Kunlun Tech
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Kunlun Tech
Kunlun Tech controls 10 brands on Brandtree, 10 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
- GameMaker
- Opera (1996)
- Opera Ads
- Opera AI
- Opera Air (2025)
- Opera GX
- Opera Mini
- Opera Neon (2025)
- Opera News (2017)
Other brands in payments, and who owns them
The 36 brands in payments on Brandtree belong to 19 owners. The largest is PayPal, with 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| GoPay | GoTo | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
| Kaspi Alaqan | Kaspi.kz | 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan |
| Braintree | PayPal | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Afterpay | Block | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Rakuten Card | Rakuten | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| AzamPay | Bakhresa | 🇹🇿 Tanzania |
| GrabPay | Grab | 🇸🇬 Singapore |
| Mercado Crédito | MercadoLibre | 🇺🇾 Uruguay |
About the owner: Kunlun Tech
Kunlun Tech is a publicly listed company headquartered in Beijing, China. Brandtree records 10 brands under its control, and it is listed as SZSE: 300418.
Kunlun Tech is a Chinese internet company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange under the code 300418, with its business address in the Dongcheng District of Beijing. It appears here because of what it owns rather than what it sells: Opera's own annual report names Kunlun Tech the ultimate parent of Opera, held through its Hong Kong subsidiary Hong Kong Kunlun Tech Holding Limited, which beneficially owns 68 per cent of Opera's shares and makes Opera a controlled company under Nasdaq rules. Kunlun is itself controlled by James Yahui Zhou, who is also Opera's executive chairman and who holds 11.6 per cent of Kunlun directly and a further 15.1 per cent through a Beijing limited partnership he is the general partner of. Certain Opera employees are paid in options over Kunlun shares.
🇳🇴 MiniPay and other Norwegian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 63 brands that began in Norway. 18 of them (29%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, MiniPay among them.
- Penger.no — Schibsted Media 🇳🇴
- TIDAL — Block 🇺🇸
- Awilco LNG — Awilco LNG 🇳🇴
- Byggmakker — Kesko 🇫🇮
- Color Line — Color Line 🇳🇴
- Diplom-Is — TINE 🇳🇴
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of MiniPay?
The parent company of MiniPay is Kunlun Tech, a publicly listed company headquartered in China. MiniPay sits under Kunlun Tech's subsidiary Opera.
Is MiniPay Norwegian or Chinese?
MiniPay originated in Norway, but it is owned today by Kunlun Tech, which is headquartered in China. So MiniPay is a Norwegian-origin brand under Chinese ownership.
Is MiniPay still owned by Kunlun Tech?
Yes. As of 11 October 2026, MiniPay is still owned by Kunlun Tech. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Opera Limited Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended 31 December 2025 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 27 March 2026; retrieved 26 September 2026.
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