2019-6-15 19:04 |
The United States of America is beating only Africa when it comes to blockchain technology according to Gartner, the global research firm with $3.3 billion in yearly revenue. They say:... origin »
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A unique initiative by a team of blockchain enthusiasts is set to introduce blockchain tools to unbanked
2021-10-12 17:00 | |
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Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) is reportedly helping Crypto Valley Venture Capital (CVVC), a blockchain business incubator, set up an office in South Africa. According to SECO, this move fits with Switzerland’s policy of supporting private firms that seek to help African blockchain start-ups.
2021-7-16 06:30 | |
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IOHK announced its major projects as part of the biggest blockchain deal in history. Emerging tech has been at the forefront of major solutions across the continent. The post A Look Inside Cardano’s Big Blockchain Plans for Africa appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2021-5-25 18:01 | |
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The Blockchain Africa Conference is in its 6th year and we are expecting 600+ attendees to attend Africa’s leading blockchain and cryptocurrency conference. Attendees will learn how companies and individuals alike are using this technology, what some of the most interesting use cases and applications are and what regulations are being considered and implemented across […] The post Blockchain Africa Conference 2020 – Blockchain technology is transforming the way we transact and business appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-10-7 07:30 | |
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The blockchain movement in Africa is supported by multiple international crypto projects, as well as domestic initiatives. Two African blockchain teams, Kamari and Kinect, are now bringing decentralized technology to the medical industry.
2019-4-30 01:45 | |
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Cryptocurrencies and the underpinning blockchain technology have continued to transform lives in Africa. The technology has been applied in Kenya to boost agriculture by Twiga Foods. In Uganda, millions of households have been connected to solar power by a crypto initiative.
2019-2-12 23:03 | |
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On November 2, the African Digital Asset Framework officially kicked off its planned mandate to establish efforts to consolidate blockchain development standards across Africa and beyond. The project was launched under the Pan-African Organization with the goal of building regulated, cross-border blockchain standards that will link Africans at home and those living abroad. With Africa […]
2018-11-5 10:16 | |
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Huobi MENA, the global arm of Hubo Division for the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asian markets announced November 1, 2018, that it has teamed up with AI Trader, an artificial intelligence-based autonomous crypto trading system.
2018-11-4 19:00 | |
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Africa has been at forefront of many advancements over the years, still, it is not the first continent that people would consider for technological advances. This is due to the fact, that only the several challenges faced by Africa are advertised by media.
2018-11-3 15:41 | |
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Huobi Group revealed at the World Blockchain Summit in Dubai that the company is looking to expand its operations to the Middle Eastern, African and South Asian markets in a bid to provide services to its unbanked or underbanked residents.
2018-10-26 21:07 | |
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Mohit Davar, the co-founder of Huobi Mena, used the World Blockchain Summit being held in Dubai to reveal his company’s plans to further expand into less untapped markets in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia; the company stated in an Oct.
2018-10-25 19:29 | |
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Singapore-based crypto exchange, Huobi, will be launching a subsidiary called Huobi Mena in Dubai. The new center will become a regional headquarters as Huobi goes on to its expansion drive in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia according to a recent blog post.
2018-10-25 16:30 | |
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The team at Huobi have expressed their intentions of expanding globally to the markets in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. The announcement was made at the World Blockchain Summit currently being held in Dubai.
2018-10-25 11:13 | |
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Papersoft Africa, iVEDiX, and a group of bankers intend to launch a blockchain-based solution that would allow African entrepreneurs and individuals to get better access to banking services.
2018-10-24 10:12 | |
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The CEO of Civic Vinny Lingham has pointed out restricted use cases and scalability issues as the major problems facing cryptocurrency mass adoption. The CEO mentioned this while speaking at a Chain Reaction event in Johannesburg South Africa organised by Blockchain Entrepreneurs Club South Africa (BECSA).
2018-10-19 13:35 | |
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Prominent blockchain investors and top ICO projects will gather in Africa on World Blockchain Roadshow by IDACB. The post World Blockchain Roadshow Comes to the Leading Crypto Capitals of Africa appeared first on CoinSpeaker.
2018-10-19 13:21 | |
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Adhara Gets $15 Million Funding to Bring Blockchain Privacy to Central Banks Adhara, a blockchain startup has won $15 Million Funding from Consensys, the ethereum design studio to bring blockchain privacy to Central Banks.
2018-10-16 00:40 | |
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Лондонский стартап Coinfirm запустил блокчейн-сеть для противодействия мошенничеству, в партнерстве с техцентром в столице Нигерии KAD ICT Hub, который целый год будет проводить образовательные курсы.
2018-10-11 18:26 | |
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The United States Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has a few important crypto related decisions to make and is pushing back dates and causing a lot of distress in the blockchain and cryptocurrency communities.
2018-10-9 21:30 | |
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Financial savings have long been the foundation of wealth and asset building. However, we are now in a time when the growing obsolescence of financial institutions has forced certain technologies out of date, created high fees, revealed structural inefficiencies and, ultimately, meant that some standard investment solutions now fail to place consumer needs first.
2018-10-6 16:37 | |
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One of the impacts of the rapid, global advancement of digital asset markets has been seasons of volatility and turbulence. This creates a challenging environment for even the most astute investors in terms of managing cryptocurrency portfolios and investment strategies.
2018-10-3 17:37 | |
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The Japan-based SBI Remit has recently announced its collaboration with BitPesa for utilizing the latter’s digital treasury management solution to enable convenient transactions between Japanese merchants and African countries.
2018-9-27 15:14 | |
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The bitcoin blockchain is now being used to send money to almost a million customers through the Japanese transfer bank SBI Remit and BitPesa. BitPesa’s African Push The protocol was generated to become a quicker, more trustworthy way to finance Africa’s often undercapitalized markets.
2018-9-27 19:00 | |
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The U.N. World Food Programme plans to test blockchain for tracking food delivery in East Africa, following a refugee aid pilot in Jordan.
2018-9-26 15:00 | |
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London-based ONEm Communications has announced the launch of its mCoin program across Africa. Designed to be a hybrid currency, mCoin is a digital currency that can be transferred over text or through the smartphone app.
2018-9-25 21:26 | |
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SBI Remit and BitPesa are collaborating to enable easy money transfer services between Japan and several African countries. The partnership sees the Bitcoin blockchain’s utilization as an enterprise remittance vehicle.
2018-9-25 21:00 | |
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SBI Remit and BitPesa have partnered to enable faster and cheaper money transactions between Japan and Africa using the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain.
2018-9-26 19:09 | |
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Japanese Giant SBI Remit Allows Customers to Send Money To Africa Using Bitcoin’s Blockchain Bitcoin continues its expansion all over the world. This time, the Japanese money transfer company SBI Remit will allow over half a million customers to send money to Africa using Bitcoin.
2018-9-24 23:00 | |
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HOFA: Is it Africa’s Finest Digital Currency? Blockchain technology is widely enjoying acceptance among developed countries in Europe, USA, and many others. However, the growth needs to be slow and closely monitored if any benefits are to be realized in developing countries.
2018-9-24 22:35 | |
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Since the rise of cryptocurrencies, they have been looked at as a way not only to maintain trade but also to keep assets out of harm’s way. That has been especially true in highly conflict-prone countries and places with unstable economies.
2018-9-21 00:49 | |
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Blockchain can transform the supply chain. By using blockchain, small- and medium-size businesses (SMEs) around the world can obtain $1 trillion in trade financing, according to Sept. 13 whitepaper by World Economic Forum and consulting firm Bain & Co.
2018-9-15 23:00 | |
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Can bitcoin be used for social good? If anyone thinks so, it’s Ray Youssef, the CEO of peer-to-peer bitcoin platform Paxful. A successful entrepreneur in the crypto and blockchain space, Youssef comes from humble beginnings and understands the importance of maintaining control over one’s finances.
2018-9-15 21:50 | |
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After successfully trialing blockchain-based payments for wholesale interbank settlement, South Africa’s central bank has scooped up the award for Best Distributed Ledger Initiative at Central Banking’s “FinTech RegTech Global Awards 2018.
2018-9-11 00:00 | |
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Binance is looking at Africa as the next frontier of growth, an executive at the world’s largest crypto exchange by daily trading volume has revealed. Benjamin Rameau, the Director of Binance Labs revealed the company’s reasons behind setting out to conquer Africa, with the relative underdevelopment in the continent and the great diversity being among […]
2018-9-6 21:00 | |
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In today’s edition of The Daily we feature an interesting art exhibition which merges augmented reality technology with oil paintings inspired by Bitcoin and cryptocurrency culture. We also cover updates about the Bitmain IPO, ASX’s “blockchain” deployment and Alexander Vinnik’s extradition case.
2018-9-6 16:05 | |
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Africa has steadily accelerated the switch to modern technologies. But can a continent facing a crisis with antiquated banking technologies, low rate of financial inclusion, poor confidence in the banking system, and high remittance costs become the new battleground for blockchain or cryptocurrency-centred settlements? Also read: Square’s Big Week: Crypto Patent, Shares Leap, and Lightning […] The post Africa and its Antiquated Banking: Cryptocurrencies The Solution? appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2018-9-5 05:55 | |
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Africa has steadily accelerated the switch to modern technologies. But can a continent facing a crisis with antiquated banking technologies, low rate of financial inclusion, poor confidence in the banking system, and high remittance costs become the new battleground for blockchain and cryptocurrency? Also read: Square’s Big Week: Crypto Patent, Shares Leap, and Lightning Plug […] The post Africa and its Antiquated Banking: Bitcoin The Solution? appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2018-9-6 05:55 | |
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Eastads Marketplace & Credits aims to disrupt the old system of buying and selling in Nigeria and Africa. We built a crypto powered marketplace for the largest market in Africa and after ICO we will develop our African Marketplace also integrated with blockchain payments.
2018-9-3 14:33 | |
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Although one of the primary goals of Bitcoin is to create a currency that is borderless and decentralized, a recurring concern is the way (other than mining) that we are able to actually acquire it and other cryptocurrencies.
2018-9-1 21:31 | |
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AidosKuneen is giving crypto users the privilege to put their wealth in a network that has easy access to fiat currency through banks. A NEW MOMENTUM ADK, an open source project with a network that spans two continents, stretching two banks in Africa and one in Europe.
2018-8-31 01:49 | |
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The state owned development banks of China, Russia, Brazil, India and South Africa signed an agreement last month at the 10th BRICS summit in Johannesburg to collaborate on blockchain research in the.
2018-8-29 18:58 | |
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PwC, a “Big Four” auditing firm, recently published research that found 84 percent of companies have either a “live” blockchain project or experiment underway. China Primed to Lead Blockchain Innovation The company surveyed over 600 executives from 15 countries–including the U.
2018-8-29 01:00 | |
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North Korea Plans “Korean International Blockchain Conference” It is common knowledge that the reach of the cryptocurrency industry spans from the northernmost tip of Canada, right to the heart of South Africa.
2018-8-28 22:45 | |
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Before Bitcoin was regarded as the hot new investment on the block (pun intended), the idea of decentralized payments… The post Top Cryptocurrency Solutions for the Middle East and Africa appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2018-8-27 14:00 | |
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The electoral agency of Kenya is planning to utilize blockchain technology with an intention to bring greater transparency and integrity to voting. East Africa’s largest economy also wants the technology to be used to enable presidential candidates to securely access the results.
2018-8-25 16:29 | |
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Kenya is East Africa’s biggest economy that became a multi-party democracy in 1991. Since then there have been claims of widespread rigging of elections and violence surrounding the issue. Raila Odinga, leader of the opposition questioned and rejected the results of last two elections for the presidential post.
2018-8-23 23:36 | |
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Despite the mainstream media’s stream-of-bad-news schedule, cryptocurrency has a long and proud tradition of philanthropy. The Pineapple Fund, which closed in early May, donated $55m in bitcoin to a wide variety of charitable causes, including water sanitation in Africa and improving internet privacy levels.
2018-8-17 18:52 | |
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LONDON, August 8, 2018 – Kora, the largest blockchain project out of Africa, has launched a new wallet that aims to provide access to low cost financial services to populations that have historically had little to no access to them.
2018-8-9 23:46 | |
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Shivom, a decentralized platform creating the world’s largest genomic data hub, today has announced a new partnership with the non-profit organization, eMQT, utilizing research experts and technology to provide underserved communities in Africa with.
2018-8-7 12:47 | |
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Bitcoin remains at risk despite short term relief on cooler inflation data. PI, TIA lead daily gains for altcoins.
Remittix is a fast-growing, blockchain-enabled platform that’s fully committed to revolutionising the world of cross-border payments. Its laser focused on bridging the gap between cryptocurrency and fiat transactions to address the long-standing inefficiencies in the global remittance industry.
The cryptocurrency industry stabilised on Wednesday morning as some investors moved in and bought the dip. Banana Gun (BANANA) rose by over 42% to $15. 7, bringing the seven day gains to 10%. Onyxcoin (XCN) token jumped by 17.
Coinbase expects to begin servicing retail users later this year.
Amidst the ongoing sell-off in mainstream cryptocurrencies, a new contender, Remittix is emerging as a potentially superior investment option for forward-thinking crypto enthusiasts. Established names like Ethereum, Cardano, and Solana are having a hard time since the start of 2025.
Coinbase will launch the 24/7 Bitcoin and Ethereum futures products on its CFTC-regulated futures exchange Coinbase Derivatives. The exchange also plans for a perpetual-style futures contract. Coinbase is looking to tap into the growing demand for crypto trading with a round-the-clock futures offering for Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH).