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Saturday Oct 29, 2022
Saturday Oct 29, 2022
Bankless Africa presents Sats & Gwei, a podcast for your weekly crypto news update from all around Africa!
Crypto practice licensing has taken centre stage with Botswana becoming the first African country to offer Yellow Card a licence to legalize its practice within its borders. This is accompanied by another major win for the crypto ecosystem in South Africa where cryptocurrency has been legally recognized as a financial product. These developments will boost blockchain technology adoption in these countries, with hope set on other African countries to follow suite soon.
Mass crypto education remains the foremost way of creating awareness to onboard Africans into the blockchain space. Binance is again at the forefront of this effort as signalled by its recent collaboration with Utiva to empower youth with tech skills across several African countries.
Gaming in the metaverse is becoming even more popular in the African blockchain space. We're witnessing partnerships and collaborations between indigenous and foreign organizations in the P2E space with efforts targeted at onboarding more people into crypto using this means.
Amidst all the good tidings however, a recent bitcoin mining scam which erupted in South Africa has cost thousands or people losses resulting in over a hundred million rand. Newcomers and enthusiasts are advised to do proper research before investing in any seeming blockchain project.
We sound off with kudos to Binance for having recently bagged an award for innovation and creativity at the very recently held GIITA awards held in Ghana. The space is still growing, with room for involvement. It's not too late to ride the wave!
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Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
Sahabia Yakubu is the founder and managing director of DeFi Africa Network, and a blockchain advocate, speaker, and writer from Ghana. His involvement in the blockchain industry spans nearly 5 years, with a particular emphasis on education, community building, and advocacy. He was the African ambassador for MakerDAO and organised a number of meetups at Ghanaian universities. His passion for community building and problem solving was the drive behind the creation of the DeFi Africa Network with the intention of onboarding Africans into DeFi space.
Yakubu states the need for selective masterminds with acute knowledge of the African financial space to create a roadmap to onboard Africans into the DeFi space, as well as develop a model for long-term sustainability. A booming DeFi ecosystem in Africa is key to transforming the continent’s ailing financial economy for the better.
DeFI Africa is an organisation with a mission to, amongst other things, establish industry standards for a thriving Defi space in Africa and advocate for the adoption and use of DeFi technology. They aim to achieve this through a stepwise approach of first creating a community, educating community members and then securing strategic partnerships and sponsorships
from high-profile DeFi protocols including UniSwap, XDC, Celo and Bankless Dao, amongst others in the pipeline.
DeFi Africa is creating a networking platform for builders, innovators which will make it easy for new people to onboard and for existing players to be kept up to date on emerging trends. Yakubu also cites the need for a wealth of diverse talent in the growing community including policy makers, veterans and enthusiasts. .
Although ticket sales for the physical attendance of the summit have ended,the event will be livestreamed on their youtube channel. Please see links below to watch their social media space for more info at the set time.
Website: https://defiafrica.net/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/defiafrica
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTVJDjSoR4G8ImATUN60f6Q
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Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Bankless Africa presents Sats & Gwei, a podcast for your weekly crypto news update from all around Africa!
After months on end of sudden highs and ebbing lows, the markets seem to have attained some relative stability, with minimal price fluctuations across the board.
Countries around the world are beginning to take the matter of cryptocurrency regulation more seriously. With South Africa taking center-stage in the past week, the country is looking to regulate crypto trading and assets ownership.
Investors remain optimistic on the viability of cryptocurrency on the African continent. Heavy investment continues to flow into African blockchain technology startups, with Pillow Fund securing $18M to improve its service offerings and drive adoption.
Adoption is still on the rise. This is due to the efforts of companies and communities, including Crypto-Smart, CYF and Binance which has recently launched a campaign to educate people on the opportunities that exist with cryptocurrency.
The African blockchain space continues to evolve, thanks to strategic partnerships, alliances, cohorts, community efforts and investments. There is still much space for growth and involvement. It is apparent in this moment, that the sky is only the beginning.
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Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Jia is on a mission to redefine the perceived definition of financial inclusion through innovative offerings to its customers using blockchain technology.
Zach is a Co-Founder and CEO of Jia, a DeFi provider for a friendlier, fairer, more inclusive financial world. He began his work expanding financial access in emerging markets at McKinsey, where he worked on microfinance programs across East Africa and South Asia, and then at Tala, a fintech lender where he helped scale the business from Kenya to the Philippines, India and Mexico. He pivoted his career into web3 upon finding that it provides more viable solutions to the problem of financial inclusion.
Jia breaks the bounds of being just another credit provider, they consider themselves growth partners to the businesses that they provide these facilities to. By creating service offerings that are more personal to the consumer, Jia is able to build a trust relationship with their customers and help them scale their businesses even quicker through added support. They are on a mission to provide tools for individuals and businesses to take control of their financial lives.
With time, businesses will be able to stake their Jia tokens in select protocols or on smaller businesses within the Jia ecosystem to get even more tokens as rewards. Investor liquidity will be deployed to use-cases with the most recognizable need, hence, also providing potential returns on investment to investors.
Jia is on its way to creating a next-level solution that will revolutionise lending and credit, leveraging on blockchain solutions as a medium. See links provided to view career and investment opportunities with Jia and learn more about the protocol.
Website: https://www.jia.xyz/
Jia Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/jia_defiZach Twitter: https://twitter.com/zmarks215
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The Bankless Africa show highlights projects, ecosystems, and people making an impact and driving crypto adoption across Africa. Get informed on all things bitcoin, Defi, NFTs, web3, and everything in-between.
Disclaimer:
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Sunday Oct 16, 2022
Sunday Oct 16, 2022
Bankless Africa presents Sats & Gwei, a podcast for your weekly crypto news update from all around Africa!
It’s been a lively week. Rwanda got selected for crypto firm Polygon's continental tech boot-camp, Bitmart unveiled South Africa’s first utility-backed NFT and lots more. The Polygon Africa bootcamp program aimed at bringing more than 2000 developers across many African countries will allow developers to innovate by building decentralized applications on the polygon blockchain that can be applied to solve real life problems. WIth top performers standing a chance to win prizes, up to $10,000, it promises to be amazing. Bitmart, on the other hand, will be launching their NFT project in the form of a card game.
Nigeria continues to make headlines. The insane fall in the price of crypto assets and tokens has seen a lot of individuals and countries at large lose faith in crypto, selling off their assets and criticizing the rest of the pack. However, Nigerians still flock to crypto during this time, as usage has been on the high. The country continues to hit new highs and is showing no sign of slowing down. The Vice President of Nigeria can testify to this as he believes that Nigeria has positioned itself as a leader in the African digital economy space. According to an address in Abuja, he believes Nigeria is in a better position to be significant players in web3.
Ghana is having their fair share of web3 education as well. 'The African Artist', Oni Onochi at his exhibition urged Ghana to invest in the Creative Arts sector to drive wealth. With the surge in the NFT space, and reputable companies and artists leaving their digital footprints all across the ecosystem, he sees art as the only way the country can boast of its creative and artistic output.
Despite the fact that we are in a bear market, some companies are still looking to scale even further. African crypto exchange Yellow Card seeks major expansion. After receiving series B funding of $40 million, YellowCard has set their sights on doing more. The African cryptocurrency exchange is looking to scale as the company plans on being the first African crypto unicorn the world has ever seen. With thoughts of getting to all 54 countries in Africa, we can say that there is no stopping these guys. All these and more in this episode. Do enjoy.
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None of what is shared in this show is financial advice. Only the opinions of the individuals that make this show possible. Remember to always do your own research.
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Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Wednesday Oct 12, 2022
Carbon emissions and their consequential effects on our atmosphere are a major concern for our world today, especially to lower income communities across the world, even though they are often the least contributing to the negative changes.
Mark Lawrence is the founder of Carbon Collectible NFTs, he has a combined total of more than 20 years of program management experience, venture capitalism, centralized finance and insurance from his years of work with Toyota Financial Services. He developed the business model for the Carbon Collectible NFTs (ccNFTs), including the composable NFTs that represent biodiversity impact certificates themselves. He has 3 patents for the ReFi social innovation studio that multiplies, compounds and recycles ESG sponsorship for ccNFTs.
The concern about the effect of carbon emissions on our environments has led to the creation of carbon offset measures as a step to curb the effects in question. Given that a great portion of the vegetation that serves the purpose of absorbing carbon is located in underserved communities, it is only right for the carbon offset industry to be more beneficial to the local forest communities across Africa as well.
Mark states that the clear motive for the ccNFT’s team is to create social impact through the project; by allowing corporations who wish to contribute to carbon offsetting efforts to buy ccNFTs and hold them as digital certificates that prove ownership of carbon credits in these forest communities. The sale itself does not grant physical rights of the forest area sold to the individuals or corporations buying them. Ownership is reserved for the indigenous inhabitants of these local forest communities; the NFTs serve simply as biodiversity impact certificates.
The goal of the project is to add equity and inclusion to climate finance through the use of an open protocol approach and validators in its governance models.
The revenue generated from the project is intended for use in social development, forest management and the empowering of local communities to create sustainable solutions that can be profitable enough to create jobs and enable the funding of social impact projects that will financially liberate these communities and improve their standard of living in a manner that best suits.
check these link to learn more about the Carbon Collectible NFTs projectTwitter : https://twitter.com/CarbonOffsetNFT
Weebsite: https://carboncollectiblenfts.com/
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The Bankless Africa show highlights projects, ecosystems, and people making an impact and driving crypto adoption across Africa. Get informed on all things bitcoin, Defi, NFTs, web3, and everything in-between.
Disclaimer:
None of what is shared in this show is financial advice. Only the opinions of the individuals that make this show possible. Remember to always do your own research (DYOR).
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Saturday Oct 08, 2022
Saturday Oct 08, 2022
Bankless Africa presents Sats & Gwei, a podcast for your weekly crypto news update from all around Africa
The markets seem to have attained some relative stability, with minimal price fluctuations across the board over the last couple of weeks.
Africa is experiencing a rapid surge in the number of blockchain developers, with over $100m raised for the expansion of 41 blockchain startups in the past year alone. Widespread acceptance of blockchain technology has come accompanied by organising of several Hackathons, DeFi meetups, and web3 conferences across several African countries, including Ghana and Nigeria.
The Call for inclusion remains on the rise in the African blockchain space. Projects like the newly launched Cowrie token from South Africa which are often targeted at fostering inclusion and for use as a means of social good are still being created.
The Nigerian blockchain community remains bullish on blockchain adoption regardless of many restrictions imposed by the Central Bank of Nigeria. The P2E space is also on the path to rise to prominence, partly owing to the efforts of Africa Gaming Guilds and other stakeholders.
The African dream of web3 transitioning, acceptance, and adoption of blockchain technology remains undefeated. Beyond a means to create wealth, it offers a platform to create a better future for Africans.
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Sats & Gwei is a BanklessAfrica podcast that brings you weekly crypto/web3 headlines about the Africa continent. Stay up to date with the most relevant crypto happenings across Africa.
Disclaimer:
None of what is shared in this show is financial advice. Only the opinions of the individuals that make this show possible. Remember to always do your own research.
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Wednesday Oct 05, 2022
Wednesday Oct 05, 2022
Visual media has always played an important role in learning, and its very rapidly finding interesting use applications in the blockchain education space.
In addition to being a visual artist and storyteller, Chief Nyamweya is also the co-founder of Freehand Studios, a Nairobi-based African animation and social impact studio, a company he co-founded with his wife Sarah. Prior to making the ‘odd’ choice to pursue a career as an artist, Chief was initially trained as a lawyer and a chartered accountant, he practised both of those professions simultaneously. He has been an author and co-author of two graphic novels - Art of Unlearning (2019) and this episode’s focus novel, TRUST (2022).
This episode explores the inspiration and ideal behind the graphic novel “Trust”. Chief states that the purpose of the novel is to be a piece targeted specifically at blockchain education, to take people from a level of minimal knowledge about blockchain technology to a point where they are sufficiently informed about the principles of concepts like decentralised finance, DAOs and other web3 technologies.
Since release, “Trust” has been well received, with the graphic novel and picture adaptation reaching impressive levels of acclaimed recognition. The aim of Trust is to liberate the minds of readers and viewers from the traditional path of thinking about real life applications of technology, and enable them to expand their scope & understanding into a realm that allows them to understand the utility of blockchain technology as it applies to solving real life problems.
With the target demographic being young adults, Trust is set to help its audience in their exploration of the changes that a decentralised economy can bring to the countries all over Africa. Chief emphasises the need of the younger generation to actively participate in the decentralised transitioning of Africa’s economy as the next phase of the African evolution.
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The Bankless Africa show highlights projects, ecosystems, and people making an impact and driving crypto adoption across Africa. Get informed on all things bitcoin, Defi, NFTs, web3, and everything in-between.
Disclaimer:
None of what is shared in this show is financial advice. Only the opinions of the individuals that make this show possible. Remember to always do your own research (DYOR).
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