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Saturday Jul 23, 2022
Saturday Jul 23, 2022
Bankless Africa presents Sats & Gwei, a podcast for your weekly crypto news update from all around Africa!
Cryptocurrency and Blockchain technologies continue to disrupt traditional financial systems in more innovative ways.
The Central African Republic continues to channel its efforts towards reviving its economy through blockchain technology and will begin issuing tokens of its national cryptocurrency for sale to private investors, with perks added as incentives.
Regulatory bodies in Nigeria including the Central Bank make moves to regulate the country’s digital economy, accepting that it has now come to stay, while also noting the many disruptive changes it has brought to the finance sector.
Advocacy for inclusion of financially excluded regions is on the rise as Binance announces partnership to collaborate with a leading EduTech organization to drive education and adoption in Northern Nigeria.
Ghana is not left out in the cryptocurrency adoption wave, occupying a top spot on the list of African countries with cryptocurrency holders.
Cryptocurrency and NFTs continue to prove as a force for good through innovative use cases such as fundraising for social good projects in Nairobi and as a means of combating a dwindling financial economy and rising inflation in South Africa.
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Wednesday Jul 20, 2022
Wednesday Jul 20, 2022
An ailment in the global financial system that decentralized finance aims to fix is the growing wealth divide and inequitable distribution of wealth across countries of the world.
This episode features Anna Stone, an accomplished Web3 innovator, growth leader and co-founder of GoodDollar.org, a social-impact protocol, and DAO that delivers a crypto UBI to hundreds of thousands of people around the world and leverages free market incentives to pay for building a more equitable world since 2020.
Disparities in wealth distribution between the extremely wealthy and the poor are a defect in the global social and financial structure. This gap continues to widen, with the problem remaining unsolved. The GoodDollar initiative was launched with the goal to use decentralized finance and blockchain technologies to reach the most financially underserved persons throughout the globe, persons who lack the know-how and infrastructure to tap into the potential of decentralized finance.
There is no certainty that the wealth gap will ever completely be bridged. However, there is an outcome in which resources can be distributed more fairly among people by leveraging the use of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency as a medium to impact this change and ensuring that all persons at least earn a Universal Basic Income(UBI).
Anna speaks of the significance of impact DAOs in today's world through the creation of new incentive models to solve existing problems and a driver for equitable wealth distribution to
members of the system. She shares her perspectives on the role cryptocurrency has played in fundraising for good causes, the ideology behind the GoodDollar initiative as a global organization for creating equal economic opportunities and social equity for all, and their strategic goals for the future.
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Saturday Jul 16, 2022
Saturday Jul 16, 2022
Bankless Africa Podcast presents your weekly crypto news update from all around Africa!
How massive is cryptocurrency adoption in Africa?
As a result of the combined efforts of stakeholders in the African cryptocurrency space, there continues to be a massive uptake in the number of Africans who are now familiar with these technologies and are aware of the transformative potential they carry.
Harsh regulations are still being slammed on blockchain technology and cryptocurrency trading across many African countries. This has however not caused a halt in growth or adoption. Efforts to educate youths in Africa are still being intensified via umbrella initiatives such as BCAT.
In an effort to encourage entrepreneurs to stay innovative in the space, several cryptocurrency organizations have dedicated to helping entrepreneurs in Africa get ahead on their business niches by leveraging on blockchain technologies, with added incentives to encourage participation.
Bitcoin has maintained its relevance on the global cryptocurrency stage despite the dip as a result of the bear market, with fore organizations such as Qala launching developer initiatives to encourage the building of blockchain infrastructure on the bitcoin and lightning networks.
While South Africans appear to be increasingly interested in the metaverse, with recent reports showing an uptick in participants, the Central African Republic continues to blaze the trail, following the recent launch of its bitcoin side chain network - The Sango Platform.
Listen in as we bring you these and many more crypto news and events about Africa in this week’s episode of Sats & Gwei.
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Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
How has the emergence of DAOs impacted the web3 culture in Africa?
In this episode, Del Titus Bawuah, co-founder of the Ghana Unity DAO speaks about his transition from traditional work environments to being a community builder in the web3 space.
DAOs have played a key role in web3 adoption on the continent. These structures offer an environment that allows members to challenge themselves in a healthy, competitive environment, unbiased by breaking the barriers of effective collaboration such as lack of accountability and motivation.
Titus states the unique position web3 plays in transforming the technological space in Africa and describes the youthful population of Africa as having the potential to harness web3 technologies for transformation. However Africa is behind in technological advancements, web3 has the potential to bring Africa into a sphere of technological prominence in today’s contemporary society.
Titus speaks of DAOs as the future of community building, collaboration, and a hub for innovation and growth. He reaffirms the vision of Unity Dao to create awareness about the web3 space and encourage innovators to build projects while providing access to resources and talent pool that may be needed to bring the next-level projects Africa needs to progress to life.
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Sunday Jul 10, 2022
Sunday Jul 10, 2022
Bankless Africa presents Sats & Gwei, a podcast for your weekly crypto news update from all around Africa!
The markets seem to have been hit by a ray of hope over the course of the past week, with major cryptocurrencies in the green zone, while the Fiat currencies have remained relatively stable.
Binance and Celo are at the forefront of implementing strategies that will foster inclusivity in the African blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Through initiatives such as the Binance vision fund and the Celo Africa web3 fund, these organizations aim to bolster crypto involvement amongst individuals and ensure that startups have the resources they need to innovate.
Amidst rising incidences of cryptocurrency scams and ponzi schemes, innovation in the African blockchain space remains on the rise. The launch of the H2ON token, which is aimed at improving water delivery systems using blockchain technology, and the mara wallet, which aims to bridge the crypto involvement gap in Africa are laudable initiatives. Despite cryptocurrency bans and strict regulations in many African Countries, adoption continues to project upwards, with Nigeria and Kenya leading the pace.
This episode touches on emerging innovative trends in the African blockchain space, the unwavering faith of the community and the potential for more that can be realized using cryptocurrency.
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Sunday Jul 03, 2022
Sunday Jul 03, 2022
Bankless Africa Podcast presents your weekly crypto news update from all around Africa!
Markets continue in a bear market as prices continue to experience further drops.
Crypto awareness continues to grow in Africa. Morocco aims to regulate the country’s crypto sector with the Central Bank focused on creating a regulatory framework aimed at innovation and consumer protection. The Central Bank of Nigeria in partnership with Africa Fintech Foundry plans to launch the eNaira hackathon on 4th August 2022.
The hackathon aims to boost macroeconomic growth, increase financial inclusion and facilitate the adoption of Nigeria’s e-naira. The hackathon will bring innovators together to develop solutions in areas such as international remittance, trans-boarder payment, blockchain, financial inclusion and trade.
Central African Republic’s president Faustin-Archange Touadéra has announced a launch date for the Sango project, a crypto initiative by the country’s leadership to allow the use of bitcoin as a legal tender. July 3 is the set date for launch. With this initiative, the country aims to tap into the vast blockchain and web3 ecosystem in the hopes of bettering its economic situation and combating inflation.
Meanwhile, An African mobile banking platform Aella has partnered with creditcoin network to make credit histories transparent with the integration of creditcoin’s public blockchain. Creditcoin is a borderless credit investment network which seeks to create a credit lending infrastructure that provides fintech lenders and microfinance providers greater access to capital.
Listen in as we bring you these and many more crypto news and events about Africa in this week’s episode of Sats & Gwei.
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Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
Tuesday Jun 28, 2022
This episode features Simon Peters, DAO architect and co-founder of Waya Collective. Simon’s vision is to create fair incentive-based networks to replace old, rigid and inefficient systems. He has key experience in crypto startup and impact-driven companies.
Businesses in Africa face a lot of systemic challenges. The traditional financial system in Africa has been structurally disadvantageous to the people of Africa in many different ways. Bad KYC systems, lack of liquidity for businesses leading to huge lending gaps, high interest rates making capital acquisition almost impossible for a lot of people looking to embark on economic activities and a lot more.
Waya Collective aims to solve these issues and more with their novel B2B lending platform. Waya collective is a community based lending platform built on the Cardano blockchain. The platform aims to unleash the economic growth potential of various places in Africa by being a go-to platform for access to capital.
Simon goes deeper into the philosopher of Waya Collective and how loan applications on the platform works. Why on the Cardano blockchain though? Well listen in as Simon explains why and the reason Cardano might be misunderstood.
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Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
This episode features Harrison Obiefule, Marketing and PR Head at FTX Africa. He is passionate about positioning Africa for accelerated growth and mass adoption of blockchain technology on the African continent. FTX Africa aims to achieve this through education of persons in these developing markets, and providing infrastructure to encourage involvement.
Harrison speaks about transitioning into web3, as well as the regulatory environment for the crypto and blockchain space in Africa. Harrison cites legislations for or against crypto use in many African countries as a major determinant for mass adoption of blockchain technology and its associated products.
The African crypto space needs more users, partners and innovators to thrive. A key to growing a larger community is to change the prior misconception of the ordinary African about crypto through Blockchain education across Africa.
Harrison restates the commitment of FTX Africa to growing the blockchain community, the role of education in achieving mass adoption and also expresses optimism about the future of the African Crypto space.
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