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REGULATION | World Economic Forum (WEF) Recommends Sandboxes in Risk-Averse…
According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), policymakers and regulators worldwide should conduct decentralized finance (DeFi)-related innovations and experiments within regulatory sandboxes, focusing on tailored risk mitigation…
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REGULATION | World Economic Forum (WEF) Recommends Sandboxes in Risk-Averse Approach to Support DeFi Innovations
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INTRODUCING | Zanzibar Announces a National Blockchain Sandbox Program to Pilot Innovation
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MILESTONE | Stripe Makes Headlines with $1.1 Billion Acquisition of Bridge, the Largest Deal in Crypto History
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GLOBAL | Total Global Debt to Surpass $100 Trillion, 93% of Global GDP, By End of 2024, Warns IMF
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BRICS | Zimbabwe Professor Argues for BRICS New Development Bank Over IMF Due to Its Flexibility and Supportive Terms
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MILESTONE | Bitcoin ETFs Inflows Hit the $20 Billion Mark in Just 10 Months Accounting for ~5% of Bitcoin Circulating Supply
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PARTNERSHIP | South African Fintech, Peach Payments, to Integrate Whatsapp-Based Sales in Partnership with Kenyan CRM, Sukhiba
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PARTNERSHIP | Yellow Card and Alchemy Pay Partner to Boost Crypto Onboarding Across 6 African Countries
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LIST | Top 10 Corporate Brands Embracing the Metaverse
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FUNDING | South African Fintech, LittleFish, Raises Seed Round After Closing a Strategic Partnership with VISA
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REPORT | ~90% of Investors Judge African Startups By the Quality of Their Reporting, Says Latest 2024 PR Report
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REGULATION | Nigeria Bill to Require Tax Identification For All Financial Services Handlers
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REGULATION | Ethio Telecom to Sell 10% to Public via TeleBirr Super App Ahead of the Ethiopian Stock Exchange Launch
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FRANCOPHONE AFRICA | Binance Expands Crypto Access to 6 West and Central African Nations with Mobile Money Integration
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....
According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), policymakers and regulators worldwide should conduct decentralized...
The government of Zanzibar has unveiled an exciting initiative – a National Blockchain Sandbox...
In a landmark move for the crypto industry, payments giant Stripe has acquired stablecoin platform Bridge...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued a stark warning: global public debt is expected to surpass...
Kudzai Dominic Chiwenga, an Associate Professor at the University of Zimbabwe, has discussed currency...
Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the U.S. have hit a remarkable milestone, surpassing $20...
South African fintech, Peach Payments, has entered a partnership with Sukhiba, a Kenya-based customer...
Alchemy Pay, a leading fiat-crypto payment gateway, has announced a partnership with pan-African fintech...
REPORTS
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...
The number of crypto millionaires worldwide has increased to 172,300 individuals, while the number of...
The upcoming decade is poised to be the digital era for Sub-Saharan Africa. According to a new 2024...
The global Islamic halal economy is expected to reach a market value of $7.7 trillion by 2025 boosted...
Accessing cryptocurrency remains the primary use case for stablecoins in emerging markets, accounting...
Nigeria was the only African country that made it to the top 20 in Chainalysis’ latest 2024 Crypto...
The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) has announced a notable turn-around with a net profit of Egyptian Pounds...
Startups in Africa announced $56 million in funding in August 2024, down from $443 million in July 2024...
A new research paper released in August 2024 has provided the first comprehensive evaluation of the early...
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....
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Tools for Humanity Chief Executive Officer and WorldCoin CEO, Alex Blania, appeared physically in the...
Kenyan blockchain startup, Kotani Pay, is 1 out of 10 organizations that will be participating in a pilot...
Binance notably saw over 30% surge in users, expanding its customer base to over 170 million, reveals...
FINTECH
Africa leads In Cost of Sending Remittances One of the major problems attracting fintech innovation in...
Value of Remittances over the Years The average cost of sending remittances to Africa dropped slightly...
Nigeria Crypto and Twitter Bans Came at a Cost to Millions of Young Nigerians, Says Latest UN Report
A new report, partly approved by the United Nations (UN) has stated that restrictions on cryptocurrency...
Kippa, a financial management and payments platform for Nigerian SMEs, has announced it has raised...
As per a regulatory filing, MTN Nigeria has revealed that it has received final approval from Nigerian...
Eversend, the money transfer service co-founded by Ugandan entrepreneur, Stone Atwine, is rebranding...
What will be the trendiest sectors in fintech in 2022? According to analysts offering API services to...
REGULATION
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,...
In a new press release, the South Africa Revenue Service (SARS) says it will be stepping up measures...
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) says it has authorized JPMorgan Chase Bank, the largest bank in the world,...
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is set to introduce a new real-time tax system that will integrate...
According to local reports, the Kenyan government has announced a new policy that will designate all...
The Bank of Tanzania (BoT) has published new requirements aimed at safeguarding borrowers from abusive...
Kenyan wealth-tech startup, Ndovu, has officially launched its new Money Market Fund (MMF), called the...
The Central Bank of Nigeria says it will begin collecting a 0.005% levy on all electronic transactions...
The Nigerian Federal Government wants to mandate all fees collected at its ports of entry to be in Naira...
Kenyan financial institutions, including fintechs, are now expected to begin effecting the Common Reporting...
Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, will not be applying for a license to operate...
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BANKING
Kudzai Dominic Chiwenga, an Associate Professor at the University of Zimbabwe, has discussed currency...
According to the South Africa Reserve Bank (SARB) Digital Payments Roadmap, nearly half of South African...
VISA has announced the launch of the VISA Tokenized Asset Platform ( VTAP), a new product designed to...
The Bank of Tanzania is exploring the use of artificial intelligence to forecast inflation and enhance...
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
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...
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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)
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...
According to a post by the National Bank of Ethiopia, the country’s Council of Ministers has approved...
Rwanda is aiming to launch its own national Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) within the next two...
The Bank of Ghana (BOG) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have successfully completed a proof-of-concept...
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