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...
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...
Africa. The cradle of humankind, a continent full of hope, but always under siege by the ghosts of economic inequality. We read about the $6 trillion crypto opportunity, a number so big it seems like a rounding error. But do digital currencies have the potential to truly connect the unbanked,...
Warren Buffett, one of the longtime faces behind classic investment strategies, has been a long-time critic on the crypto market. His largely negative opinions about Bitcoin have rippled across the world of finance. Recent court, legislative, and advocacy developments are starting to suggest a quiet but palpable change in the...
The game has changed. The narrative of Bitcoin as a purely decentralized, peer-to-peer currency is fading, replaced by a new reality: institutional dominance. Never mind the cypherpunks and early adopters. Today, Wall Street giants and corporate behemoths are wielding an unprecedented influence over Bitcoin’s future. What does all of this...
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....