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TAXATION | The Kenya Revenue Authority Collected $77.5 Million in…
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) collected KES 10 billion ($77.5 million) from cryptocurrency traders in the financial year ended June 2024. KRA chairman, Anthony Mwaura, said during…
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TAXATION | The Kenya Revenue Authority Collected $77.5 Million in Cryptocurrency Taxes in the Last Financial Year -
STABLECOINS | Majority of New $USDT Users Are Coming from Emerging Markets, Including African Cities, Says a Bloomberg Analysis -
LIST | Here is the List of the 10 'Based Africa' 2024 Hackathon Winners -
LIST | Mozambican Startup, Empowa, Emerges Winner of 'Blockchain For Good' Award at the 2024 Cardano Summit -
A Look At Cloud Mining - a Convenient and Cost-Friendly Option for Crypto Mining -
MILESTONE | With Nearly 5,000 Attendees, the Binance Blockchain Week 2024 is the Largest So Far -
REPORT | African Crypto Communities on Telegram Have Grown By Over 180% Since 2023, Says Latest Report
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INFLATION | Nigeria Launches Amnesty Program to Recover FX Hoarded By Locals
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FUNDING | Janngo Capital Announces Close of Fund 2 at $78 Million to Invest in African Tech -
TOKENIZATION | Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) Joins Hedera Network Council to Accelerate Tokenization of Real World Assets -
LIST | 7 African Startups Make it to 2024 CB Insights List of 100 Most Promising Startups Worldwide -
EAST AFRICA | Kotani Pay Expands Crypto On/Off Ramp Services to Rwanda and Uganda
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FUNDING | Nigerian Leading Merchant Fintech, MoniePoint, Raises $110 Million in Series C Funding to Become Africa's Latest Unicorn
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REGULATION | Tanzania to Withdraw Bank Notes Printed Between 1985 and 2010 from Circulation
OPPORTUNITIES
Bloomberg is thrilled to announce the launch of the inaugural Africa Startups to Watch List. Two decades...
Timbuktoo’s Greentech Hub has issued a callout for African entrepreneurs with a business solution...
Base blockchain is currently running a hackathon dubbed ‘Based Africa,’ for Africans building...
T-Vencubator, a leading venture capital firm and incubator in Egypt, has launched its inaugural investment...
Web3 startup accelerator, CV Labs, has announced the launch of applications for Batch 07 of its program....
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) collected KES 10 billion ($77.5 million) from cryptocurrency traders...
Usage of Tether’s stablecoin USDT has risen in time zones aligning with major cities in: Eastern Europe...
In an electrifying event in Nairobi, Base hosted builders from across Africa to discuss the future of...
The fourth annual Cardano Summit 2024 has concluded in Dubai bringing together over 1,000 industry leaders,...
Cloud mining platforms, which have emerged in recent years, aim to provide a convenient way to mine cryptocurrencies...
The Binance Blockchain Week 2024, which took place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), featured some...
African crypto communities on Telegram have grown by 189% since early 2023, according to a recent October...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has introduced an amnesty program to draw out foreign exchange hoarded...
REPORTS
African crypto communities on Telegram have grown by 189% since early 2023, according to a recent October...
CB Insights, a global startup performance analytics firm, has unveiled its list of the 100 most promising...
Binance, the world’s largest exchange, has shed a significant portion of its market share in the...
As a follow-up to its maiden Wimbart Investor Communications Report, Wimbart, a PR agency focused on...
According to a new report by Galaxy Digital, venture capital investment in crypto startups declined to...
Daily unique active wallets (UAWs) in the blockchain ecosystem surged to an all-time high of 17.2 million...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released an October 2024 paper examining the possible options...
There are currently 29,350 individuals worldwide with liquid investable assets of $100 million or more,...
Hackers managed to get away with $750 million across 155 incidents in Q3 2024, bringing the year’s...
The Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region has emerged as the seventh-largest crypto market globally...
Stablecoins now account for approximately 43% of the total cryptocurrency transaction volume in sub-Saharan...
Diaspora remittances by Kenyans hit $427.2 million in August 2024, the highest monthly value sent by...
Mauritius has been ranked highest among African countries Global Innovation Index (GII) 2024 by the World...
A recent World Bank report has declared South Africa the most unequal country globally, with race playing...
The number of crypto millionaires worldwide has increased to 172,300 individuals, while the number of...
The upcoming decade is poised to be the digital era for Sub-Saharan Africa. According to a new 2024...
The global Islamic halal economy is expected to reach a market value of $7.7 trillion by 2025 boosted...
Accessing cryptocurrency remains the primary use case for stablecoins in emerging markets, accounting...
Nigeria was the only African country that made it to the top 20 in Chainalysis’ latest 2024 Crypto...
ETHEREUM
U.S-traded spot Ethereum (ETH) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw about $476 million in outflows during...
In a recent social media post, Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation spokesperson, Josh Stark,...
Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 network, Base, has reached a new milestone with over 1 million daily active...
Bitcoin and Ether ETFs recorded nearly $6 billion in trading volume amid the global market turmoil on...
The “I’m Too Smart to Fall for That” Syndrome So, you think you’re the Sherlock...
This week, we’re celebrating Ethereum’s 9th birthday – that’s right, our favorite blockchain...
The nine United States Ether Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) saw about $1.08 billion in cumulative trading...
ETH Exchange Traded Funds are set to launch on July 23 2024 after U.S. regulators gave their final approval...
Think about it for a sec, A blockchain is just a large single database that is not owned by anyone but...
If you’re a regular user of applications on the Ethereum blockchain, chances are you’ve come across MetaMask....
PARTNERSHIP | Jambo and PixelVerse Unite to Bridge Web3 Gaming and Mobile Access in Emerging Markets
Jambo, the pioneering force behind Web3 mobile infrastructure aimed at empowering emerging markets, has...
Bundle Africa, the leading Nigerian-based social payments app that launched in April 2020, has released...
South African Web3 marketplace, Momint, has secured a $50,000 grant from the DFINITY Foundation, a Swiss...
FINTECH
Africa leads In Cost of Sending Remittances One of the major problems attracting fintech innovation in...
FintechCashier, an innovative UK payment services provider, has chosen Xago as its preferred partner...
BitVice, a South-African startup, has launched a bitcoin-only buying platform which lets users store...
According to data gathered by Afridigest’s Fintech Transactions Database for the first half of...
In a blog post by CEO, Lanre Adelowo, FluidCoins, a startup focusing on APIs to enable businesses support...
According to the 2022 LAVCA Trends in Tech report, VC investment in blockchain/crypto reached $653 million...
JUMO, a fintech with a special focus on emerging markets, recently raised $120 million as top investors...
REGULATION
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) collected KES 10 billion ($77.5 million) from cryptocurrency traders...
The Bank of Tanzania is withdrawing some old bank notes introduced between 1985 and 2010 from circulation,...
Financial crimes watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), has announced that Senegal has been...
Two crypto companies are the latest victims of Nigeria’s new crypto regulation regime. According...
A court in Nigerian capital city, Abuja, has convicted Official Gredo Limited, a local crypto dealing...
The Nigerian Federal government has withdrawn a money laundering case against Binance executive, Tigran...
According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), policymakers and regulators worldwide should conduct decentralized...
A newly proposed bill in Nigeria will mandate that individuals involved in banking, insurance, stockbroking,...
In a new press release, the South Africa Revenue Service (SARS) says it will be stepping up measures...
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) says it has authorized JPMorgan Chase Bank, the largest bank in the world,...
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is set to introduce a new real-time tax system that will integrate...
According to local reports, the Kenyan government has announced a new policy that will designate all...
BANKING
The Bank of Tanzania is withdrawing some old bank notes introduced between 1985 and 2010 from circulation,...
In a recent announcement, South Africa’s largest retail bank by customers, Capitec Bank said it...
Kudzai Dominic Chiwenga, an Associate Professor at the University of Zimbabwe, has discussed currency...
According to the South Africa Reserve Bank (SARB) Digital Payments Roadmap, nearly half of South African...
Neil Leon De Waal, a South African associate of the controversial investment scheme GS Partners, was...
The Mauritius Financial Services Commission (FSC), the regulatory authority responsible for the regulation,...
Proof of attendance protocol, often shortened to POAPs, function as digital badges you can collect at...
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has started a slow rollout that allows...
A new survey conducted by IPSOS for the World Economic Forum (WEF) finds that half of adults across 29...
The term, metaverse, can trace its roots back 3 decades ago to a sci-fi novel by Neal Stephenson called...
FRANCOPHONE AFRICA
EDUCATION
Long before we used paper money, people used many different objects as money. One of the defining characteristics...
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty has surged to its highest level ever, occurring just over a week before...
Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on Wall Street experienced five consecutive days of net outflows...
The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has allocated a total of $500,000 across 14 diverse projects worldwide,...
Every four years, the amount of Bitcoin rewarded to cryptocurrency miners is halved in a process aptly...
In a new analysis, crypto asset management firm, GrayScale, says that Bitcoin’s technical fundamentals...
Open interest in Bitcoin surged to $31 billion on March 4 2024 surpassing the previous record of $24.3...
A Bitcoin address is a string of alphanumeric characters that represents a destination for Bitcoin transactions....
The Bitcoin Lightning Network has seen growing adoption since its inception in 2018, accumulating a total...
DAOs
Core DAO is excited to introduce the African Innovation Fund, a groundbreaking initiative to provide...
Celo has finally unveiled a regional DAO which is expected to drive adoption of the blockchain in grassroots...
The South Africa Reserve Bank (SARB) will be exploring multiple use cases involving a wholesale CBDC...
The Kamusi DAO Project is an initiative which aims to create a Kiswahili Web3 dictionary that represents...
CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES (CBDCs)
The Central Bank of the Kingdom of Eswatini has released a design paper detailing its potential central...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released an October 2024 paper examining the possible options...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has pledged more measures to jumpstart the low adoption of its digital...
A new research paper released in August 2024 has provided the first comprehensive evaluation of the early...
Project mBridge, the multi-central bank digital currency arrangement that connects different jurisdictions...
According to a post by the National Bank of Ethiopia, the country’s Council of Ministers has approved...
Rwanda is aiming to launch its own national Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) within the next two...
The Bank of Ghana (BOG) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have successfully completed a proof-of-concept...
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