Blockchain & Web3Africa

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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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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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 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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Africa’s crypto boom led by Nigeria and South Africa transforming finance

Africa’s Crypto Boom: How Nigeria and South Africa Are Rebuilding Finance

Sub-Saharan Africa is no longer a background story in the global crypto narrative. It has become one of the most active and influential regions in the world, showing how digital...
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Kenyan wealth-tech startup wins Base Founders Fellowship award

Kenyan wealth-tech startup  wins Base Founders Fellowship

The Kenyan wealth-tech startup is building compliant bridges between traditional finance and blockchain innovation. Kenyan wealth-tech startup Ndovu has been announced as the winner of the 2025 Base Founders Fellowship,...
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Flutterwave Sees Stablecoins as Key to Africa’s Payment Future

The CEO of Flutterwave, Olugbenga Agboola, has expressed strong optimism about the potential of stablecoins to revolutionize payments across Africa. Speaking recently on the future of digital finance, Agboola said...
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Kenya parliament and cryptocurrency symbols representing the Virtual Assets Service Providers Bill.

Kenya’s Virtual Assets Service Providers Bill: A Step Toward Regulatory Clarity in the Crypto Space

Kenya has taken a decisive step in shaping its digital finance landscape with the Virtual Assets Service Providers Bill, 2025, often referred to as the Kenya Crypto Act. The bill,...
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