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ANNOUNCING | African Crypto Off-Ramp Platform, Simfy, Expands Offerings with…
Simfy, the innovative crypto off-ramp platform that has been revolutionizing the African crypto landscape with its simplicity, speed, and customer-centric design, is thrilled to announce a significant…
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ANNOUNCING | African Crypto Off-Ramp Platform, Simfy, Expands Offerings with the Listing of Conflux Network’s Token (CFX) -
REGULATION | African Stablecoin On/Off Ramp, Yellow Card, Secures Category 1 Crypto Asset Service Provider Licence in South Africa -
REPORT | Lagos, Nigeria is the Capital City of Startups in Africa, Says Latest Venture Activity Report -
MILESTONE | Bitcoin Hits $94,000 in Latest All Time High
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CBDC | 'Economic Stabilization is Priority Before Implementing eCedi Initiative', Says Bank of Ghana After Successful CBDC Pilot Completion -
REGULATION | Nigeria Continues Crackdown Against Unlicensed Crypto Firms With Latest ~$15,000 Conviction -
MILESTONE | Ethiopia National Payment Switch, EthSwitch, Sees P2P Transactions Grow By Over 250% YoY Overtaking ATMs in Value -
LIST | Here Are the 10 Startups Selected to Compete in the African Finals of the Latitude59 Pitching Competition -
LIST | A Look at 6 Global CBDC Projects and Challenges Facing CBDC Adoption Across the World -
REPORT | Nigeria Has Most Active Mobile Crypto Wallet Users Globally After the U.S, Says a16z 'State of Crypto' 2024 Report -
Bulgarian Crypto Queen, Founder of OneCoin, Allegedly Not Dead, Hiding in Cape Town, South Africa
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REPORT | Stablecoins Have Become Crypto's Killer App Amid Blockchain Scaling Improvements, Says New a16z Report
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BRICS | 5 Unique Features of BRICS Pay -
INFLATION | Ethiopian Birr Devaluation Costs Safaricom Over $130 Million in Just 6 Months Despite ~50% Customer Growth
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....
Simfy, the innovative crypto off-ramp platform that has been revolutionizing the African crypto landscape...
Yellow Card, a leading provider of stablecoin-based infrastructure in Africa, has been granted a Category...
As of 2022, Nigeria boasted approximately 3,360 startups, the highest number in Africa, with Lagos alone...
Bitcoin once again hit a new all-time high a new peak of $94,000 on November 20 2024 as per data from...
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) says it has completed its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilot project...
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured a conviction against local...
Ethiopia’s national financial switch operator, EthSwitch, says that the value of interoperable...
Ten startups have been chosen to compete in the African final of the Latitude59 competition. The winner...
REPORTS
As of 2022, Nigeria boasted approximately 3,360 startups, the highest number in Africa, with Lagos alone...
To date, three jurisdictions have launched a nation-wide CBDC: The Bahamas Jamaica, and Nigeria while...
There have never been more monthly active crypto addresses, says the latest ‘State of Crypto’...
Startups in the Middle East and North Africa region raised $134 million across 56 deals in October 2024,...
The number fintech companies in Africa has nearly tripled since 2020, significantly improving access...
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...
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....
Opera PC browser will give users access to the built-in crypto wallet in Opera for Android Opera, through...
One of the challenges in crpyto is how to convert your funds for everyday usage, such as getting airtime....
South African fintech company, Ukheshe, has announced the acquisition of EFT Corporation Limited (EFTCorp),...
FINTECH
Nigerian Fintech startup, Afriex, has closed a $10 million Series A round to expand its blockchain money...
A recent tweet by Zach Bijesse, Co-Founder of PayHippo, a Nigerian lending app, has stirred up Twitter...
Power, a financial technology company based in Kenya, has secured a $3 million seed funding round led...
In april 2022, digital payment provider, VISA, opened its latest innovation studio in Nairobi, Kenya,...
In a blog post, PayPal said it will now support the native transfer of cryptocurrencies between PayPal...
MoneyGram, a global leader in money transfer, in partnership with the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF),...
Lami, a digital insurance product based out of Kenya, has raised $3.7 million in an extension round,...
REGULATION
Yellow Card, a leading provider of stablecoin-based infrastructure in Africa, has been granted a Category...
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured a conviction against local...
The South African Revenue Service (SARS), in collaboration with the Reserve Bank and the Department of...
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has ordered all financial institutions in the country, including commercial banks...
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,...
BANKING
Ethiopia’s national financial switch operator, EthSwitch, says that the value of interoperable...
To date, three jurisdictions have launched a nation-wide CBDC: The Bahamas Jamaica, and Nigeria while...
The Pan-African Payments and Settlement System (PAPSS) can save the continent as much as $5 billion in...
Nium, a global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, announced a partnership with Ecobank...
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 Bank of Ghana (BoG) says it has completed its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilot project...
To date, three jurisdictions have launched a nation-wide CBDC: The Bahamas Jamaica, and Nigeria while...
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has won the prestigious ‘Innovation in Digital Currency Design for Financial...
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...
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