El Salvador Debuts Sivar National Platform With Modveon, Offering Verified Community Access and $2 Cross-Border Payments

Developed by Modveon for El Salvador, Sivar advances President Bukele’s vision of leveraging technology to broaden democratic participation and link Salvadorans with institutions, businesses, and each other. The platform offers identity-verified accounts, community and institutional access, and allows U.S. residents to send funds to El Salvador for a flat $2 fee regardless of amount.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The Government of El Salvador and Modveon today announced the national launch of Sivar, following a five-year agreement between Modveon and AAB, a Salvadoran public institution. Under the pact, Modveon will develop, operate, and scale Sivar and its digital services. Designed for Salvadorans at home and abroad, as well as others connected to the country, Sivar aims to bring communities, institutions, and families closer together.

Sivar is a trust-centric platform built around verified individuals, communities, businesses, and public institutions. It represents Modveon’s first national deployment of its proprietary Verified Operating System, a technology platform designed for verified identity, trusted connections, modern payments, and AI-powered services at national scale.

Sivar gives Salvadorans a single destination to follow verified updates, join national and hyperlocal communities, connect with others, participate in live conversations, and send money between the United States and El Salvador or domestically.

Sivar was refined through a phased pre-launch rollout involving more than 25,000 Salvadorans and incorporating real-world feedback. The national launch broadens access and establishes a direct feedback loop with citizens as Sivar expands its roster of participating institutions, businesses, services, communities, and payment options.

“Sivar represents a new way to connect Salvadorans with their community and institutions. We want technology not only to facilitate access to information and services but also to strengthen trust, participation, and a sense of belonging.”

— Adriana Mira, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of El Salvador

A trusted network, not an anonymous feed

• Sivar verifies Salvadoran users through their official identity card, the Documento Único de Identidad (DUI).
• Verified users can post, join live conversations, vote in polls and send funds. Sivar combines identity verification, reporting tools, AI-powered content governance, automated detection and human review to reduce spam, abuse, fraud and misinformation.

One country, many local communities

Sivar organizes communities at national, departmental, municipal, and district levels. A verified address connects users to relevant local communities, along with public-interest communities and private groups.

From public information to direct engagement

Official announcements are kept separate from member posts. During major events or emergencies, Sivar Megathreads consolidate verified government updates and community posts in one place. Participating officials and community leaders can also host live town halls and engage directly with citizens.

Communities of interest

Alongside geography-based groups, Sivar hosts communities centered on shared interests and everyday needs, ranging from education, sports, and music to small business, traffic, and school updates.

Verified creators and Salvadoran businesses can establish trusted presences in these communities, connecting directly with followers, supporters, and those who rely on them.

“The internet scaled faster than trust. El Salvador chose to address this directly. With Sivar, we are building a digital future around trust. Community, communication and money belong together: they are how people connect, participate and support one another. Money is a form of connection too: it’s how people support family, help friends and stay connected across borders. That is why we are starting with something deeply practical: letting U.S. residents send money to people in El Salvador for a flat two dollars, no matter how much they send. More than twenty-five thousand Salvadorans helped shape Sivar before today’s launch, and this is only day one. Our ambition is for Sivar to evolve into El Salvador’s everyday digital platform and show what becomes possible when trust is built into a country’s digital infrastructure.”

– Nana Murugesan, CEO and Co-Founder of Modveon

$2 to send money home

Salvadorans abroad sent roughly $9 billion home in 2025, with about 92% originating from the United States. For the nearly 1.6 million Salvadorans living in households that receive these transfers, reducing the cost and time required to send money home is essential. Sivar extends El Salvador’s digital modernization into one of the most important financial relationships for Salvadoran families: the flow of money home from abroad.

“Salvadorans send billions of dollars home every year, and too much of it disappears into fees. Bringing that cost down to a flat fee, settled in seconds, is exactly what modern payment rails were supposed to do. The economics work because the money moves digitally end to end, and that’s how every cross-border payment should work.”

– Faryar Shirzad, Chief Policy Officer of Coinbase

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