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Kenya is ramping up efforts to comply with the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), a game-changing rule that could shut out non-compliant agricultural exports from the EU…
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Kenya Commits to EU Deforestation Law by December 2025 - and How Blockchain Can Ensure Exports Remain Compliant -
MARKET ANALYSIS | Ethereum ETF Frenzy Pushes $ETH Price Past $3,000 -
REGULATION | The Ghana Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) Gets a Forensic Crypto License -
Diving into Crypto | Simple Strategies for Curious Beginners -
STATISTICS | ETFs Now Drive U.S. Bitcoin Trading More Than Spot Exchanges - Now Accounting for Over 50% Bitcoin Trading Volume -
REGULATION | South Africa Could Unlock ~$30 Million in Tax Revenue in 5 Years by Modernizing Crypto Rules, Says Luno
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FUNDING | South African Bitcoin & Crypto Payments Solutions Provider, MoneyBadger, Raises $400,000 in Pre-Seed Funding
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CRYPTO CRIME | EFCC Nigeria Secures Conviction of Two Chinese Nationals for Crypto-Enabled Crime
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REGULATION | Kenya Government Reportedly Seeks to Implement 'The Travel Rule' by Identifying Crypto Owners in New VASP Bill
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Holiverse: Real or Fake? Understanding the Nature of Reality -
MILESTONE | 'Today, 1 in 28 People on Earth is a Binance User,' Says Binance as it Celebrates 8th Anniversary -
REALITY CHECK | Senegal Cancels Akon’s $6 Billion Wakanda-Themed Crypto-Powered City Project -
GLOBAL | Europe is Falling Behind – JPMorgan CEO Warns the EU Risks Global Irrelevance -
The Kenya Cabinet Minister for ICT and Digital Economy Endorses the Private Kenya Digital Token on Solana
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...
Kenya is ramping up efforts to comply with the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), a game-changing...
Ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have attracted a record-breaking $726 million in inflows in just...
Ghana’s Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has become the first state agency in the country to...
Getting into crypto trading doesn’t have to feel like entering a high-stakes casino. You don’t need to...
The U.S.-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs have surpassed traditional spot exchanges in trading volume –...
South Africa has a major opportunity to boost government revenue, attract institutional capital, and...
Press Release South African Bitcoin and crypto payments solution provider, MoneyBadger, has closed a...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of Nigeria has secured the conviction and sentencing...
The National Treasury has reportedly proposed a new law that will compel crypto exchanges and firms facilitating...
REPORTS
A new H1 2025 on crypto has revealed that memecoins are the only crypto sector to post positive returns...
A new report by Artemis sheds light on the usage of stablecoins in real-world payments, revealing several...
Sixteen years after Bitcoin’s launch, crypto has moved far beyond speculative hype. Coinbase’s latest...
Stablecoins are gaining ground as a reliable tool for digital payments. New data from Artemis shows that...
Once seen primarily as a place to store tokens, the crypto wallet is now the gateway to a full financial...
Crypto brands have increased their sports sponsorship spend by 20% year-on-year to $565 million, according...
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...
ETHEREUM
Ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have attracted a record-breaking $726 million in inflows in just...
A new report by Artemis sheds light on the usage of stablecoins in real-world payments, revealing several...
LovCash, a blockchain-powered platform, is bringing real-time data, digital payments, and loyalty rewards...
Global e-commerce leader, Shopify, has begun rolling out early access to stablecoin payments using Circle’s...
PayPal’s U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, PYUSD, has returned to the spotlight after its market capitalization...
Ethereum staking has reached a new milestone, with over 34.6 million ETH – worth nearly $90 billion...
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) appears to be leaning further into decentralized finance, as Aave Founder,...
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...
Paymenow, a South African startup that provides earned wage access (EWA), has secured a ZAR250 million...
Daily trade volumes on OpenSea, the leading NFT platform globally, have dropped by 99% between the start...
Valora is a mobile crypto wallet application for the Celo network. The application allows the users to...
FINTECH
The Capital Markets Authority Regulatory Sandbox Policy Guidance Note (PGN) forum brought together stakeholders...
The 4th Annual Lecture on Financial Inclusion organized by FSD Kenya featured the reknowned and well...
Kuda Bank has reported a $14,214,681 loss for 2021, latest reports have reavealed. The report also shows...
Nigerian fintech startup, Bridgecard, has raised a $440, 000 pre-seed funding round to expand its user...
Jambo, a congolese startup, has raised $7.5 million in seed funding to bolster its ongoing project in...
Waza, a Y Combinator-backed (YC W23 Batch) B2B payments company, has launched a multi-currency account...
Africa leads In Cost of Sending Remittances One of the major problems attracting fintech innovation in...
MoneyGram, a global leader in money transfer, in partnership with the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF),...
Egyptian startup, Swypex, has unveiled the rollout of its comprehensive financial services platform for...
REGULATION
Kenya is ramping up efforts to comply with the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), a game-changing...
Ghana’s Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has become the first state agency in the country to...
South Africa has a major opportunity to boost government revenue, attract institutional capital, and...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of Nigeria has secured the conviction and sentencing...
The National Treasury has reportedly proposed a new law that will compel crypto exchanges and firms facilitating...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned two individuals, Ifeanyi Emmanuel Ogbonna...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of Nigeria has raised fresh concerns over the growing...
In June 2025, as reported by BitKE, the Bank of Ghana (BoG) issued a strong public warning against YellowPay...
The Bank of Ghana, which is the Central Bank of Ghana, has issued formal notice requiring all Virtual...
A major Kenyan bank has lost over KES 500 million (approx. $4 million) after a group of contractors manipulated...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has once again raised red flags over Nigeria’s rising crypto adoption,...
FTX has confirmed Payoneer as a third repayment channel – alongside BitGo and Kraken – effective...
In a recent interview, Edline E. Murungi, Senior Legal Counsel for East Africa at Yellow Card, has shared...
A major crypto fraud scheme in Australia has revealed how scammers are increasingly using legitimate...
BANKING
A major Kenyan bank has lost over KES 500 million (approx. $4 million) after a group of contractors manipulated...
Digital lending in Kenya is fast becoming a key lifeline. 65% of Kenyans do not have a bank account while...
The Kenya Bankers Association (KBA) is now exploring tokenized collateral frameworks, according to a...
In Nigeria’s fast-evolving digital financial landscape, mobile banking apps have become essential tools...
Philosophy over marketing. This is one of Holiverse’s founding principles. When a project promises “personalized...
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...
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
TRON DAO, the community-governed organization committed to advancing internet decentralization through...
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...
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...
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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