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TOKEN ANALYSIS | HYPE Token ($HYPE) Hits New All-Time High…
The native token of Hyperliquid, $HYPE, has surged nearly 60% in just three days, hitting a new all-time high of $37 before retracing to around ~$35 as…
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TOKEN ANALYSIS | HYPE Token ($HYPE) Hits New All-Time High Amid CFTC Boost for Perpetual Futures -
TOKEN ANALYSIS | The Jupiter ($JUP) Token Jumps ~20% in One Week After Unveiling Jupiter Lend -
DeFi’s Near-Zero Onboarding Costs Could Help 1.4 Billion Unbanked, Says 1inch Co-Founder -
BITCOIN | Laszlo Hanyecz’s $41 Bitcoin Pizza Purchase in May 2010 Now Worth $1.1 Billion in May 2025 -
Crypto Travelers Deliver 3x Higher Lifetime Value Than Fiat Users -
EVENT | CEO of Nigerian Exchange, Quidax, Calls for Global Collaboration to Boost Africa’s Crypto Ecosystem at Consensus 2025 -
FINTECH AFRICA | Kenyan BNPL Startup, Watu, Sees 85% Profit Plunge in One Year Amid Rising Loan Defaults -
INTRODUCING | The Circle Payments Network Mainnet Is Now Live!
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TOKEN ANALYSIS | RWA Launchpad, Collaterize ($COLLAT) Surges 300% in 5 Days Following Solana Founder Repost -
LIST | Here Are Popular African Fintechs You Did Not Know Are Leveraging Stablecoins
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MILESTONE | Bitcoin Breaks $110K for the First Time Amid Market Rally
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TOKEN ANALYSIS | Keeta Network Token ($KTA), Backed by Former Google CEO, Soars 600% in Just 2 Weeks -
The BitGet Non-Custodial Wallet Saw the Fastest Growth in Africa at 950%+ Over the Past Year, Says BitGet Exchange -
The Nigeria Government Releases the 'Co-Creating a Roadmap for Blockchain in Nigeria' WhitePaper
BITCOIN
OPPORTUNITIES
Fedrok AG, a pioneering Swiss blockchain firm renowned for its innovations in carbon credit tokenization...
The South African Reserve Bank and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has launched the 2025...
Are you passionate about crypto and eager to make a difference in major cities across Africa, such as...
Are you exporting products from South Africa to Nigeria? Orange, a Lightning network-powered solution...
Google has opened applications for the 9th edition of its Google for Startups Accelerator Program. The...
The native token of Hyperliquid, $HYPE, has surged nearly 60% in just three days, hitting a new all-time...
Jupiter, a prominent decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator on the Solana blockchain, has been making...
Anton Bukov, Co-Founder of decentralized exchange (DEX), 1inch, highlighted that decentralized finance...
BITCOIN | Laszlo Hanyecz’s $41 Bitcoin Pizza Purchase in May 2010 Now Worth $1.1 Billion in May 2025
Back in May 2010, Florida-based programmer, Laszlo Hanyecz, made what is now one of the most iconic transactions...
Travelers who use cryptocurrency for bookings are significantly more valuable than their fiat-using counterparts,...
Buchi Okoro, CEO of Nigerian cryptocurrency exchange, Quidax, has issued a compelling appeal to the global...
Watu Holdings, a Kenyan buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) startup, reported a steep 84% decline in profit to $1.2...
Circle has announced a significant milestone for the $USDC stablecoin, and for the future of stablecoin-powered...
The token of real-world asset (RWA) tokenization platform, Collateralize ($COLLAT) has soared more than...
REPORTS
As the crypto landscape evolves at breakneck speed, wallets have matured from basic asset holders into...
The 2025 State of Stablecoins report by Fireblocks offers a comprehensive overview of the evolving role...
The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) released its Q1 2025 report – and it’s a quietly powerful...
Crypto lending has undergone a seismic transformation since the collapses of 2022 and 2023. In its April...
Art NFT trading volume has collapsed by 93% since their 2021 peak, dropping from $2.9 billion that year...
Crypto users have already lost over $1.7 billion to these groups – an increase of 14% over the...
Tether International S.A. de C.V. (TI) has published its Q1 2025 attestation report, independently completed...
There were more stablecoin transactions in the first quarter of 2025 than VISA transactions, says the...
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has issued a stark warning in its April 15 report regarding...
REPORT | Crypto Market Cap Fell 18% in Q1 2025 to $2.8 Trillion, Bitcoin Dominance Rises to Near 60%
The total crypto market capitalization declined by 18.6% ($633.5 billion) in Q1 2025 closing the quarter...
Nigeria has taken the lead in Africa’s Web3 ecosystem, accounting for 4% of all new developers...
In a first comprehensive look at Nigeria’s Web3 industry, a new report’s findings reveal...
Kenya has emerged as a continental leader in women’s financial inclusion, ranking third in Africa according...
Kenya leads the continent’s two largest economies, South Africa and Nigeria, in the online gig...
The U.S. government has raised concerns over fraudulent title deeds in Kenya, marking a setback to the...
In a continent rapidly embracing digital transformation, mobile penetration remains a key indicator of...
South Africa’s Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) has issued a warning to the country’s expanding crypto...
REPORT | Bitcoin-Native Startups Weather Funding Winters to Raise $1.2 Billion Between 2021 and 2024
A recent study by venture capital firm, Trammell Venture Partners (TVP), reveals sustained momentum in...
African startup funding struggled in March, with startups across the continent securing only $50 million...
ETHEREUM
The Ethereum liquid restaking sector has experienced a significant downturn, with the total value locked...
The decentralized finance (DeFi) giant, Aave, has once again cemented its position at the top of the...
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...
LIST | Kenya's Shamba Records and Nigeria's Jamit Studios Selected into CV Labs Accelerator Cohort 6
The sixth cohort of the CV Labs accelerator has been announced, comprising eight ventures operating in...
According to a Q2 2023 analysis by CoinGecko, Nigeria and Morocco are among the top ten countries in...
BitSika, the blockchain-based remittance service launched just 3 and half months ago, has announced it...
FINTECH
The program is open to all pre-seed and seed-stage fintech and fintech-adjacent startups operating in...
The Moroccan Capital Market Authority (AMMC) has launched a fintech support service portal accessible...
Mobile subscriptions in Kenya increased by 6% to 65.1 million in 2021, however, at a slower rate compared...
While mobile money use has continued to climb in Kenya, 80% of all transactions registered in the country...
The penetration of financial technologies in Nigeria stands at only 35%, with this proportion of the...
Canza, an emerging markets neobank that is building the world’s largest non-institutional-based financial...
In a blog post, PayPal said it will now support the native transfer of cryptocurrencies between PayPal...
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,...
BitKE is proud to be a media sponsor of the 2022 Africa Tech Summit, which will be held in Nairobi, Kenya...
REGULATION
As the U.S. moves to introduce a controversial new tax on remittances by non-citizens, the global remittance...
STABLECOINS | Stripe’s Stablecoin Play Skips Africa’s Biggest Fintech Hubs - Here’s Why That Matters
Stripe just made a major move in the Web3 space – rolling out support for stablecoins like USDC...
WorldCoin’s latest invention, the Orb Mini, has ignited another wave of skepticism and satire across...
As Kenya accelerates its journey into the digital asset space, the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE)...
A Kenyan High Court has ruled against WorldCoin Foundation’s data collection activities, ordering the...
The recent collapse of the latest Ponzi scheme in Nigeria, Crypto Bridge Exchange or CBEX, has left many...
The Federal High Court has dismissed an interim injunction request by eNaira Payment Solutions Limited...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has warned Nigerians to avoid engaging in investment activities...
Regulated crypto exchanges in South Africa have put out Travel Rule announcements to their users alerting...
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has issued a stark warning in its April 15 report regarding...
The Nigeria Ministry of Foreign Affairs has raised alarm over the rise of cyber slavery across parts...
The Nigeria Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC Nigeria) has issued a wanted notice for eight...
The Bank of Ghana (BoG), which is the Central Bank of Ghana, plans to begin regulating cryptocurrency...
BANKING
The South African Reserve Bank and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has launched the 2025...
The Kenya Central Bank (CBK) is exploring adding gold to its foreign exchange reserves as part of a strategy...
The Federal High Court has dismissed an interim injunction request by eNaira Payment Solutions Limited...
Kenyan banks recorded currency losses totaling KES 57 billion ($438.3 million) in the financial year...
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)
The Federal High Court has dismissed an interim injunction request by eNaira Payment Solutions Limited...
The Bank of Namibia (BoN) is assessing the potential of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) to enhance...
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...
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