The story of cryptocurrency today is one filled with scary-seeming algorithms, intimidating server farms, and techno-fortune-harboring billionaires. What if I told you that the future of crypto was being molded by a new generation a continent away in Africa. Not the titans of silicon valley, but rather the rattle of...

Is Africa on the cusp of a crypto renaissance, or are we doomed to repeat history and face another crypto calamity? The recent saga involving OKX, its DEX aggregator, and the infamous Lazarus Group has thrown a harsh spotlight on the promise and peril of decentralized finance (DeFi) in Africa....

Airdrops. Sounds like what you’d hear in a sci-fi film, huh? Except, instead of deploying soldiers, we’re deploying opportunity. In Africa, that opportunity is coming with astonishing urgency. It’s sparking a revolution, breaking down years of economic disinvestment. Forget trickle-down economics, this is torrential-downpour economics awash in crypto and decentralization....

Similarly, OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer’s reaction to the SEC “unfairly targeting” crypto companies for enforcement under the Biden administration hits a raw nerve. The implications of this story extend well beyond OpenSea. It showcases the cascading effect which has shaped the robust digital economies across Africa, extending coasts far outside...

Africa. When I imagine the continent that brought my family hope and opportunity, I don’t picture a place of poverty. I used to know a country that was teeming with opportunity. It’s not because we don’t have ideas—it’s the lethal lack of access that does us in. Access to capital....