Africa


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China Leads Africa's Digital Currency Race

With years of public investment and plenty of penetration for its phone makers, China is well placed to establish a digital currency in Africa.

Huawei mural on a wall in Lusaka, Zambia

Mercati

Akon: Crypto Can Give Africa Financial Freedom

The revolutionary power of blockchain will play a significant role in the golden age of African development.

World renowned musician, producer and philanthropist Akon believes digital transformation will reshape Africa's emerging economies.

Finanza

African Startups Should Tokenize to Break Biased Funding Cycles

Startup capital in Africa still favors foreign founders at the expense of homegrown projects. A proposal to break the cycle.

Paystack founders Ezra Olubi and Shola Akinlade

Mercati

West African Program Will Store Weather Data on Telos Blockchain

Telokanda, a collaboration between Telos and open-source weather tech company Kanda in West Africa hopes to engage local communities in collecting and sharing weather data on the Telos public blockchain.

Telokanda weather balloons will record a variety of data and store the information on the Telos blockchain.

Finanza

Binance Labs–Backed ‘DeFi Credit Union’ Bringing Higher Yields to Savers in Nigeria

With backing from Binance Labs, Nigeria's Xend Finance is looking to bring DeFi to the world of local credit unions.

Xend Finance founder and CEO Aronu Ugochukwu (center)

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Nigeria Protests Show Bitcoin Adoption Is Not Coming: It's Here

Blockchain is gaining traction fast in Nigeria partly because its young and tech-savvy population is showing an eagerness to learn more about Web3.0, a decentralized internet powered by blockchain technology.

Nigeria

Finanza

Bitcoin in Africa: FastBitcoins Partners With Flexepin to Expand Global Footprint

FastBitcoins has partnered with ASX-listed Flexepin to bring the U.K.-based crypto company's services to 20,000 more locations.

Mombasa, Kenya

Mercati

Meet a Freelance Cypherpunk Developer in Africa

Fodé Diop, founder of the Dakar Bitcoin Developers meetup in Senegal, speaks with CoinDesk’s Leigh Cuen about bitcoin in Africa.

(Dakar Bitcoin Developers)

Politiche

Where FATF Crypto Compliance Gets Interesting: Africa

Crypto businesses seeing strong growth across the 54-country continent are working hard to meet the FATF's anti-money laundering standards.

Tanzania (Hu Chen/Unsplash)