Now picture Thabo, a bright-eyed graduate from a small Kenyan village. He’s not thinking about a future in a Fortune 500 company, he’s creating a solar-powered irrigation system with microloans obtained on the blockchain through DeFi platforms. It’s a climate resiliency game-changer for his community, giving them the ability to...

Bitcoin's flirting with that $114,000 mark again. You are all aware of the subsequent pullback from those glorious heights over $123,000. Quite frankly, who gives a shit about the charts and the RSI at this point? What does this mean for Africa?Bitcoin: Africa's Digital LeapfrogNow, picture a continent where only...

The NFT market is buzzing again. Firstly, CryptoPunks are all over the media with floor prices hitting $200,000+ for a single digital art piece! At the same time, the narrative swirls around Ethereum crippling the NFT market. Market caps are nearing $7 billion. Let's cut the hype. So let’s pump...

Let's be honest. When you hear the term “Ethereum,” you might envision today’s wild crypto markets and perhaps an expensive, risky NFT scam. What if I told you that this technology is more than an enriching playground for speculators? In fact, it is the answer, if we are to unlock...

Seven trillion dollars. Let that sink in. $7,070,000,000,000. That’s about equal to the entire GDP of France, Italy & Spain combined. And it’s currently on the move! We see funds leaving the old US Treasury securities and money market fund guard and moving into promising DeFi stablecoin lending lume.This isn’t...

The crypto market is surging. $3.34 trillion, they say. Trillions! While headlines scream about Bitcoin hitting $108,485.60 and DeFi’s TVL climbing to $113 billion, a vital question lingers in the dusty marketplaces and bustling tech hubs of Africa: who really benefits from this digital gold rush? Is this revolution really...

The buzz around stablecoins is deafening. We hear the conversations everywhere about regulation, liquidity ratios and systemic risk. Pardon me if I don’t take the bait. Are we truly discussing the endgame, after all? Are we unwittingly reshaping into a new age? Under this scenario, Africa’s economic future would continue...

Imagine a world where your grandmother in rural Kenya can access the same financial tools as a Wall Street trader. Sounds crazy, right? As an innovation, DeFi has an incredible promise. It can deliver on the promise of years of misguided aid initiatives and abandoned pledges.Financial Freedom: A Basic Human...

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....