The lure of passive income, delicious APYs, and a utopia liberated from the shackles of legacy finance. We’ve all heard the siren song. In 2025, you’ll be swimming in choices for your crypto. Platforms like Lido, Aave, and Curve are all fighting for your attention! However, before you go jumping...

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...

Berachain, a new player in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space, is rapidly gaining traction with its unique approach to liquidity and yield generation. Berachain is delivering users the experience of a lifetime with some truly breakthrough products and features. This way, they can capitalize on their efficiency and generate yields...

The numbers don't lie. $2.5 billion TVL. 150,000 wallets. Berachain’s Boyco pre-deposit market was, by all measures, an unmitigated success. Success breeds evolution – and evolution, as always, breeds risk. Now comes the Boyco rollover. Is this truly a needed evolution, or a high-stakes wager that will end up scorching...

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...

We all know the promise: a financial system without gatekeepers, built on code and community. Let’s face it, the world is a much more disconnected and helter-skelter place. And liquidity—the lifeblood of any market—is stretched more than butter on too much bread, stuck on other chains. Constructing new bridges between...

OKX is making its return to the DEX aggregator scene following a Lazarus Group-generated absence. They’ve touted their new security features designed to prevent the bad guys from getting in. Are these measures the equivalent of the Maginot Line – impressive in theory but simple to circumvent in practice? Or,...