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Africa Bitcoin Conference 2025 to Drive Crypto Innovation in Africa

 The Africa Bitcoin Conference 2025 (ABC 2025) is officially set to take place from 3rd to 5th December at the Caudan Arts Centre in Port Louis, positioning itself as the continent’s most...
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Brazilian Central Bank building with digital currency symbols representing stablecoins

Brazil classifies stablecoins as foreign exchange operations

Brazil’s central bank has formally classified stablecoins as part of the country’s foreign exchange operations, a regulatory step that will bring these digital assets under the same supervision as traditional...
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African innovators discussing AI and blockchain technology at Africa Blockchain Festival 2025

AI meets blockchain, Africa isn’t playing catch-up,  it’s leap-frogging —  ABF 2025

The second day of Africa Blockchain Festival 2025 delivered a full schedule of major sessions focused on the convergence of artificial intelligence and blockchain, live startup demonstrations, cultural-tech panels and...
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Africa Blockchain Festival 2025 highlights community as Africa’s greatest advantage

Africa’s greatest advantage is community, not capital – Africa Blockchain Festival 2025

Opening the event on November 7, 2025, during the Africa Blockchain Festival, speaker Harri Obi of SuperteamNG declared: “Africa’s greatest advantage is community, not capital.” This remark set a tone...
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Kenya digital asset law tightening consumer protection and crypto regulation

Kenya regulators tighten consumer protections under new digital asset law

Kenya’s financial regulators have called for stronger safeguards for consumers and more rigorous oversight of digital financial services following the implementation of the Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) Act. The...
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Stablecoins becoming the world’s most trusted form of digital money

How stablecoins are quietly becoming the world’s most trusted money

It didn’t begin with noise or speculation. It began with a need, the need for money that holds its value, moves instantly, and belongs to no single bank or government....
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Btrust appoints Nigerian Bitcoin core developer as new CEO

Btrust appoints Nigerian Bitcoin core developer as CEO

Bitcoin-focused nonprofit Btrust has appointed Abubakar Nur Khalil, a Nigerian software engineer and Bitcoin Core contributor, as its first Chief Executive Officer. His appointment marks a new chapter for the...
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Ghana regulates crypto with over 100 registered firms

Ghana Moves to Regulate Crypto as Over 100 Firms Get Registered

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has officially registered over 100 crypto and blockchain-related companies as part of a new push to regulate the country’s growing digital asset sector.  According to...
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Nigeria to regulate artificial intelligence through new national bill

Nigeria moves to regulate artificial intelligence through a new bill

Nigeria is moving closer to becoming one of the first African countries to formally regulate artificial intelligence (AI) with a new legislative proposal before the National Assembly. The bill, titled...
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Nigeria crypto sector stalls amid delayed licence approvals

Nigeria’s crypto sector stuck as licence approvals stalls

Nigeria’s crypto sector is facing  great frustration as regulators slow down the approval of operational licences for virtual asset service providers (VASPs). Almost a year after the Securities and Exchange...
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