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REGULATIONS | Kenya Invited to Financial Action Task Force (FATF)…
Kenya has been selected to take part in the global meetings and working groups of the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) for a year, strengthening its efforts…
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WATCH | M-PESA Disburses Over $55 Million in Daily Credit with Non-Performing Rate of Less Than 2%, Says CEO -
REGULATIONS | Kenya Invited to Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Working Groups for One Year Amid Crypto Regulation Progress -
REGULATION | Egyptian Fintech, Paymob, Secures Payment License from the UAE Central Bank -
MILESTONE | South Sudan to Launch the Country's First Instant Payment to Boost Financial Inclusion -
NORTH AFRICA | MENA Startups Raise $863 Million in January 2025, Web3 Received Just $100K
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OPINION | How Fintech Founders in Africa Are Thinking About Fundraising and Building in 2025 and Beyond
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AFRICA TECH SUMMIT 2025 | MiniPay Wins Web3 Award as it Surpasses 5 Million Activations in the Global South -
Magic Eden Marketplace Review: Features, Pros & Cons Explained -
REGULATION | Binance Fallout with the Nigerian Government Continues to Unfold Amidst Bribery Accusations
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FUNDING | Egyptian e-Commerce Startup, Taager, Raises $6.75 Million After Crossing 45,000 Merchants and Millions of Consumers
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REGULATION | 'We Need to Reflect on Why Populist Ideas Have this Appeal and How We Can Respond,' Says South Africa Reserve Bank Governor -
FUNDING | Ghanaian Fintech, Affinity Africa, Raises $8 Million After Crossing 50,000 Users and Over 30% MoM Growth -
FUNDING | Nigerian Fintech, Raenest, Secures $11 Million After Surpassing 700K Users, Onboarding Over 300 Businesses and Processing Over $1 Billion -
REPORT | Less Than 1 in 5 Central Banks Are Interested in Issuing a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in 2025, Says Latest Survey
BITCOIN
OPPORTUNITIES
Investing in Innovation Africa (i3), a pan-African initiative to support African healthtech startups...
The USAID Women Entrepreneurship Incubator Program (WEIP) is a transformative initiative aimed at supporting...
The UNICEF Venture Fund is on the hunt for ground-breaking Open Source technology solutions that can...
VISA, the global payment card network, has unveiled its 2025 Accelerator Program designed to drive innovation...
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS [DEADLINE: DECEMBER 27 2024] | Apply for The Btrust Builders’ 2025 ₿OSS Cohort
Btrust Builders, in collaboration with Chaincode Labs, is issuing a final call for applications to the...
M-PESA provides over $55 million in credit on a daily basis, while maintaining a non-performing loan...
Kenya has been selected to take part in the global meetings and working groups of the Financial Action...
Paymob, a leading fintech company active in the Middle East, North Africa, and Pakistan, has obtained...
The Bank of South Sudan (BoSS) is preparing to launch a national instant payments system in collaboration...
The startup ecosystem in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) raised a total investment of $863 million...
A post by Bernard Parah, Founder and CEO, Bitnob. I’ve been having interesting conversations...
MiniPay, the stablecoin wallet platform owned by Opera and built on the Celo blockchain, won the Web3...
Magic Eden is a leading cross-chain NFT marketplace for creating, buying, and selling digital collectibles...
The tensions between Binance and Nigerian authorities have reached a boiling point. Tigran Gambaryan,...
REPORTS
As central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) continue to be a hot topic in global finance, nearly a third...
Partech, the global technology investment firm, has released its annual 2024 Africa Tech Venture Capital...
According to a new report conducted for Africa games publisher, Carry1st, by the gaming data platform,...
The annual stablecoin transfer volume, the total value of transactions made using stablecoins over a...
An analysis of document, biometric, and textual verifications showed a 14% decline in fraud detected...
Kenya has yet again emerged as the leading expatriate destination among African countries in a new survey...
The startup ecosystem in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) attracted $2.3 billion in investments...
Bitget, a leading cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 company, has released its 2024 transparency report,...
Binance has released its 2024 Research Full-Year Report offering a comprehensive analysis of the trends,...
The fourth quarter of 2024 was a historic period for Bitcoin (BTC), as it surged past the $100,000 mark...
The NFT market faced a challenging 2024, with trading volumes and sales counts plummeting to their lowest...
Angel investors are stepping in to fill the gap left by the decline in funding within Africa’s...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recommended that Kenya establish a transparent and predictable...
According to a new report by Africa: the Big Deal, startups in Africa raised $2.2 billion in 2024 in...
Tech startups from Kenya raised over $638 million in 2024, 29% of all the money raised on the continent,...
Phishing was the most costly attack vector in Web3 in 2024, in a year where a total of $2.3 billion was...
Bitcoin (BTC), which is marking its 16th anniversary since the mining of its initial block, is poised...
REPORT | Hackers Stole Over $2.2 Billion From Cryptocurrency Users in 2024, North Korea Main Culprit
The value of crypto funds stolen by hackers and cybercriminals increased by approximately 21.07% year-over-year...
Nigeria’s fintech ecosystem secured over $2 billion in investments in 2024, according to the 2024 Economic...
Emerging markets lead the way in blockchain adoption, while many nations in Europe, east Asia and the...
ETHEREUM
Written by Andre Cronje, Founder of Yearn Finance For those of you who might not know, back in...
Ethereum, the global blockchain platform, announced it awarded $12.8 million in grants during the third...
The story of Legitify, a cutting-edge project developed by a talented team of students from the University...
Being chosen as a legal scholar for DevCon by the Ethereum Foundation was a profound honor. This unique...
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 Open Network (TON), a layer-1 blockchain formerly developed by Telegram, has introduced a $25 million...
Kenyan fintech, Kwara, is looking to scale even further in 2023 following a new $3 million seed extension....
Raseedy, an Egyptian fintech startup, has launched the country’s first independent and licensed...
FINTECH
According to news reports, Ethiopia’s government will be introducing a new code guiding the country’s...
According to the 2022 LAVCA Trends in Tech report, VC investment in blockchain/crypto reached $653 million...
Kuda Bank has reported a $14,214,681 loss for 2021, latest reports have reavealed. The report also shows...
Waza, a Y Combinator-backed (YC W23 Batch) B2B payments company, has launched a multi-currency account...
Egyptian fintech startup, MNT Halan, has achieved unicorn status after attracting $400 million in the...
Nigerian crypto startup, Bitmama, has raised $1.65 million in a pre-seed extension round, to add to the...
Johannesburg has been ranked the top fintech destination in Africa in the latest Global Fintech City...
In a blog post, the World Economic Forum (WEF) revealed its 2022 list of Technology pioneers with 7 Startups...
BitVice, a South-African startup, has launched a bitcoin-only buying platform which lets users store...
REGULATION
Kenya has been selected to take part in the global meetings and working groups of the Financial Action...
The tensions between Binance and Nigerian authorities have reached a boiling point. Tigran Gambaryan,...
Central Banks and other key government institutions must be prepared to defend their duties in the face...
Tuma Ventures Limited, a Kenyan fintech, proudly announces its approval as a licensed Payment System...
The Bank of Namibia (BoN) (Which is the Central Bank of Namibia) has granted provisional authorizations...
According to Connie Bloem, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Mesh.trade, a licensed financial services...
In a move that may have ripple effects across the world, U.S. President, Donald Trump, has imposed a...
The disruptive nature of the cryptocurrency industry poses significant challenges for regulators as they...
Kenya will require KES 1.82 billion (~$14 million) to introduce regulations for the use of cryptocurrency...
Cryptocurrency adoption in Africa has experienced remarkable growth in recent years, driven by a combination...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recommended that Kenya establish a transparent and predictable...
Kenya is forging ahead with plans to regulate the crypto industry, with a request for public participation...
Crypto asset service providers argue that South African regulators should take inspiration from the U.S....
BANKING
Paymob, a leading fintech company active in the Middle East, North Africa, and Pakistan, has obtained...
Tuma Ventures Limited, a Kenyan fintech, proudly announces its approval as a licensed Payment System...
MoniePoint, one of Nigeria’s leading business payments and banking services platform, has secured an...
The disruptive nature of the cryptocurrency industry poses significant challenges for regulators as they...
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
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS [DEADLINE: DECEMBER 27 2024] | Apply for The Btrust Builders’ 2025 ₿OSS Cohort
Btrust Builders, in collaboration with Chaincode Labs, is issuing a final call for applications to the...
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....
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)
As central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) continue to be a hot topic in global finance, nearly a third...
In a move that may have ripple effects across the world, U.S. President, Donald Trump, has imposed a...
In 2024, the major African countries continued to make progress in cryptocurrency adoption. Nigeria and...
Ivory Coast fintech, HUB2, has raised $8.5 million in a series A funding round led by pan-African early-stage...
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...
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