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Technology, startups, and innovation across the African continent, from Lagos to Nairobi, Cairo to Cape Town.
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An attacker tricked the Coreum XRPL bridge into crediting fake deposits, withdrawing nearly 200,000 XRP over about 97 minutes on August 9.
President Bola Tinubu has signed an executive order creating a Virtual Asset Council to align oversight across Nigeria's financial, revenue and security agencies.
Regional central bank governors have recommitted to a common East African currency by 2031, but member states remain far from meeting the required convergence criteria.
AUSTRAC has ordered Cryptolink's 96 crypto ATMs offline for three months after the operator failed to meet anti-money laundering reporting rules.
Developers of the open-source payment processor issued an urgent warning after attackers gained credential access to Lightning wallets and moved merchant funds.
A US federal court granted expedited discovery and an asset freeze in Bybit's civil case against North Korea over a February 2025 hack that stole roughly $1.5 billion in crypto.
Russia's FSB closed nine unregistered exchanges and detained more than 20 people, while separately the US Treasury sanctioned two Iran-linked crypto platforms.
IHS Holding shareholders have backed MTN Group's plan to acquire the remaining shares in the tower company, paving the way for a New York delisting.
The Nigeria Revenue Service has published its first framework for taxing cryptocurrencies and virtual asset service providers, setting compliance rules for users, exchanges and P2P platforms.
A multi-wave exploit targeting Coldcard Bitcoin wallets has driven observed losses toward $114 million and triggered the biggest surge in small BTC transfers since the FTX collapse.
A seed-generation flaw in older COLDCARD hardware wallets has been linked to the draining of hundreds of Bitcoin, with estimates of the loss varying widely across reports.
Researchers now estimate 1,082.65 BTC was drained from nearly 1,200 Coldcard wallets in a 41-minute sweep traced to a 2021 firmware flaw.
A Bank of Italy study of USDC transfers across corridors including South Africa found fiat conversion and payment infrastructure, not blockchain fees, drive remittance costs.
A Chainalysis report says the 2026 FIFA World Cup generated more than $20 billion in blockchain prediction market volume and $24 million in digital collectible transactions.
South Africa's Nedbank has appointed Nikos Angelopoulos, formerly group CIO at MTN, as its new chief information officer, effective September 1.
A Wintermute report says institutional traders reached a record 72% of crypto trading volume in Q2 2026, up from 68% in Q1, reshaping market dynamics.
The world's largest corporate bitcoin holder booked a quarterly net loss driven by an unrealized markdown on its holdings, while continuing to expand its stack.
The Series D round more than doubles K2 Space's valuation in seven months and will fund production of up to 100 large satellites per year.
Robinhood reported record second-quarter revenue and profit, with strong equities, options and subscription results offsetting a sharp decline in crypto transaction revenue.
Quidax expands B2B stablecoin corridors while Onafriq partners with Privy, part of a wider shift by African crypto companies toward institutional settlement services.
The South Africa-based exchange is reducing its global staff by roughly a fifth as it invests in automation and shifts toward institutional clients, CEO James Lanigan said.
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Zimbabwe has cleared seven fintech solutions, several blockchain-based, to begin supervised testing in its regulatory sandbox.
BitMart, once a leading venue for emerging altcoins, will halt trading on August 26, 2026 and shut down entirely by January 31, 2027.
Kenya has gazetted the Virtual Asset Service Providers Regulations, 2026, completing a legal framework to license and supervise crypto exchanges, wallet providers and stablecoin issuers.
Tokenized real-world assets became the largest trading category on the decentralized derivatives exchange Hyperliquid, surpassing crypto perpetuals for the first time.
Vlad Tenev's X account was compromised to promote a fraudulent memecoin, as speculation surges around Robinhood's new blockchain network.
The crypto derivatives exchange that pioneered the perpetual swap says it will shut down after more than a decade, with users told to withdraw funds before September 23.
Founder Pavel Durov says Telegram will embed a non-custodial Gram wallet in its messaging app this summer, enabling zero-fee crypto transfers for its user base.
The Bank of Korea plans to launch the second phase of Project Hangang as early as September 2026, testing blockchain-based deposit tokens in everyday payments.
The crypto asset manager plans to convert staking rewards on its Ethereum and Solana ETFs into cash distributed to shareholders at least quarterly, starting around August 2026.
