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INTRODUCING | StarkWare (Starknet) Unveils $4 Million Venture Fund for…
StarkWare, the firm behind the Starknet blockchain, has announced the launch of a $4 million venture fund to foster the growth of blockchain startups in Africa. [TECH]…
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INTRODUCING | StarkWare (Starknet) Unveils $4 Million Venture Fund for Blockchain Startups in Africa
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REGULATION | Kenyan Fintech, Tuma, Secures a PSP License from the Bank of Tanzania
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FUNDING | Egyptian Fintech, Khazna, Closes $16 Million Pre-Series B After Growing User Base to Over 500,000
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'As Regulators, We Want to Activate Blockchain in Our Efficiency and Be on Top Of Our Game,' Says Nigeria SEC Boss in Meeting with Algorand
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REPORT | The African Gaming Market Grew 6x Faster Than the Global Growth Rate in 2024, Says African Web3 Gaming Publisher, Carry1st
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REGULATION | El Salvador Slows Down Bitcoin Regulations Following Pressure from IMF
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FINTECH AFRICA | South African Fintech, Peach Payments, to Expand BNPL Offering in New Deal with Float
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STABLECOINS | Tether ($USDT) Reports $13 Billion Profits for 2024 and All-Time Highs in U.S. Treasury Holdings
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INTRODUCING | Safaricom's Money Market Fund, Ziidi, Surpasses $22 Million with Over 450,000 Users Onboarded in Pilot Month
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REPORT | StableCoins Now Account for 1% of Total U.S. Dollar Supply, Transfer Volume Eclipsed VISA and MasterCard Combined in 2024
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REGULATION | Bank of Namibia Grants Provisional Authorization to Two Crypto Services
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MILESTONE | Stablecoin Market Cap Reaches New ATH of Over $210 Billion in January 2025
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REGULATION | Mesh.Trade CEO Makes the Case for All Financial Service Providers (FSPs) in South Africa to Acquire Crypto Licensing
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INTRODUCING | South African Ride Hailing App, Twytch, Pioneers Blockchain Identification to Tackle E-Hailing Safety Issues
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...
INTRODUCING | StarkWare (Starknet) Unveils $4 Million Venture Fund for Blockchain Startups in Africa
StarkWare, the firm behind the Starknet blockchain, has announced the launch of a $4 million venture...
Tuma Ventures Limited, a Kenyan fintech, proudly announces its approval as a licensed Payment System...
Egyptian fintech startup, Khazna, has secured $16 million in pre-Series B funding to accelerate its growth...
The Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Dr. Emomotimi Agama, has once again...
According to a new report conducted for Africa games publisher, Carry1st, by the gaming data platform,...
El Salvador’s Legislative Assembly has passed a bill to amend and possibly reduce the country’s...
South African fintech, Peach Payments, has entered a strategic partnership with Float, the country’s...
Tether, issuer of the $USDt stablecoin, reported record profits of $13 billion in 2024 and now holds...
Safaricom’s Ziidi Money Market Fund (MMF) has quickly gained traction, reaching $22.03 million (KES 2.85...
REPORTS
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...
According to Tether, 109 million on-chain wallets held USDT at the start of the fourth quarter, making...
Venture funding in Africa experienced a decline in November 2024, with 32 startups across the continent...
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...
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FinServe launches as an independent company to serve the fintech space in Africa Finserve, which is a...
MasterCard has finalized a definitive agreement with MTN involving a minority investment of up to $200...
The program is open to all pre-seed and seed-stage fintech and fintech-adjacent startups operating in...
FINTECH
According to news reports, Ethiopia’s government will be introducing a new code guiding the country’s...
Welcome to YC S22, @sidneyrema_, @jumaphelix, and team @PatikaAfrica! Patika helps small businesses in...
Ivory Coast-based consumer fintech, Djamo, has raised $14 million in an investment round led by Ycombinator,...
TeamApt, a B2B fintech from Nigeria, has secured an undisclosed amount of funding in an investment round...
In a blog post by CEO, Lanre Adelowo, FluidCoins, a startup focusing on APIs to enable businesses support...
Value of Remittances over the Years The average cost of sending remittances to Africa dropped slightly...
Nigerian Agri Fintech, Tingo, Integrates DeFi Lending Protocol To Expand Financial Access to Farmers
Tingo International, the parent company of Tingo Mobile, an over-the-counter (OTC) listed public company,...
Mobile subscriptions in Kenya increased by 6% to 65.1 million in 2021, however, at a slower rate compared...
Flutterwave CEO, Agboola Olubenga, has arrived in Kenya to spearhead efforts to free up his company’s...
REGULATION
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....
South African fintech, Mukuru, has announced that it has received deposit-taking microfinance institution...
Nigeria has one of the best crypto regulation regimes in Africa, towering above countries like Kenya,...
In 2024, the major African countries continued to make progress in cryptocurrency adoption. Nigeria and...
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BANKING
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...
According to local reports, Kenyan banks are calling for the upgrade of the existing PesaLink system...
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
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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....
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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...
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CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES (CBDCs)
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...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released an October 2024 paper examining the possible options...
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