In doing so, the West’s financial gatekeepers have long set the terms of play that have excluded millions of Africans from the process. The game is changing. Forget waiting for trickle-down economics. Yearn is all about creating bottom-up wealth creation through crypto staking. This is not only a story of...

Africa advocates are quick to share stories of how Africa is becoming the next frontier for cryptocurrency adoption. We see it in the stories of how crypto is helping people to circumvent traditional banking systems, empower the unbanked, and jumpstart entrepreneurship. I’m here to tell you that persistent DeFi wallets...

I still recall saving for months just so I could afford a used SNES back in the day. The struggle was real. For most young Africans who are enthusiastic gamers, owning a good enough gaming console to realistically play on seems like a wishful fantasy. To heck with those new...

The excitement around BNB these days is electric, no doubt about it. The bullish coin indicator Liam Miller’s in-depth analysis shows that a coin is about to breakout. It sure is flirting with that $600 mark, on account of surging trading volumes and whale moves. And finally, the coup de...

Meet Aisha, a spirited 19-year-old from rural Kenya. She owns her own tailoring business, fighting every day against inflation and lack of access to the traditional banking system. For Aisha, as for millions of other Africans, it’s financial freedom that is her dream. Yet the gatekeepers of traditional finance still...

Africa. The sleeping giant. We listen as the world whispers of its promise, of its great resources yet to be discovered, of its young, energetic base. How often do we follow with the real transgression, the real investment that grounds up empowers? Gate.io’s play in Africa, particularly with the emphasis...

Now picture that same entrepreneur in Lagos, unable to get a $500 loan to help grow her business. The bank refuses unless she can provide collateral—collateral that she already does not have. It charges her exorbitant high interest rates and puts her through an unintuitive process that appears to be...

Imagine an emerging Kenyan artist who, thanks to the power of digital technology, sells their digital creations directly to an international clientele. They lack to go through exploitative galleries and secure 70-90% of their earnings with confidence. Consider a hypothetical smallholder farmer in Ghana. They receive micro-loans through decentralized finance...

Let's be brutally honest. That promise of DeFi – that democratized, decentralized finance utopia – hasn’t really come true for anyone, let alone Africa. We see the headlines, the astronomical APYs, the innovative protocols… but for many African entrepreneurs and users, it feels like watching a party through a glass...

Samsung's DeX. It’s a neat capability few outside the Samsung galaxy smartphone ecosystem (and even some in it) go too much further. What if this relatively obscure feature could serve as a powerful new key to unlock opportunity for millions across Africa? What if Africa’s future finance is in the...