Ripple, Chipper Cash partner for faster and cheaper African remittances
Ripple has partnered with African payment infrastructure provider Chipper Cash to support crypto-enabled cross-border payments.According to a March 27 announcement,...
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Women in DeFi Marks Three Years of Impact, Education, and Financial Inclusion for African Women
Women in DeFi, a transformative community founded by Sarah Idahosa, is celebrating its third anniversary this month, marking a significant...
Central African Republic debuts memecoin managed by state-owned mineral firm
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No Power Grid? This African Village Mines Bitcoin for Electricity
Too Long; Didn't ReadAfrican village Bondo built a micro-hydro grid to mine Bitcoin and power 1,800 homes. Earns enough from...
South African Regulator Expects to Determine Fate of 50 Crypto License Applications in …
And there is not a lot of that around if you take into account that crypto has not been around...
US move on ETFs excites African crypto investors
By VINCENT OWINO The United States’ securities regulator last week approved the first Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). This is good...
The Central African Republic (CAR) Adopts Bitcoin As Legal Tender
The Central African Republic (CAR) has become the latest country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, following the footsteps of...
Ripple partners with Onafriq for African cross-border payment channels
Ripple Labs, the San Francisco-based payments firm, has partnered with South African fintech company Onafriq to expand remittance payment capabilities...
African fintech, Web3 leaders to convene at Africa Money and DeFi summit in Accra
Creators of the Africa Tech Summit Series, a leading technology conference, would on the 3rd and 4th of October, 2023...
Creating Chatbots in African Languages
The field of natural language processing (NLP) has advanced the furthest in the most widely-used languages like English and Russian....