Tag: emerging markets

Emerging markets recorded over $205 billion in on-chain value in a single year, not because blockchain is innovative, but because their financial systems are broken. While Wall Street races to ...

In Lagos, a freelance designer quotes her rates in USDT. A spare parts importer mentally converts every price to dollars before agreeing to a deal. A small business owner tracks ...

VALR, one of Africa's largest crypto exchanges, has partnered with payments gateway Onafriq to allow users across 43 African markets to fund crypto wallets directly using mobile money in local ...

Blockchain-based games are beginning to reward players with real income, shifting gaming from pure entertainment to active economic participation. The "play-to-earn" model, where users earn cryptocurrencies and NFTs through gameplay, ...

Stablecoins are gaining traction in emerging markets as an alternative store of value, offering escape from currency instability and capital controls. But calling this a 'replacement' for the dollar may ...

Rwanda's National Bank launched a 12-month live trial of its proposed central bank digital currency on February 26, enrolling real users, merchants, and payment providers across Kigali and selected rural ...

Brazil's Congress has revived a proposal to build a sovereign Bitcoin reserve of up to 1 million BTC, roughly 5% of the cryptocurrency's total fixed supply through phased government purchases ...

Philippines digital bank GoTyme has launched crypto trading services for its 6.5 million customers, allowing them to buy and store 11 cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin and Ethereum directly through its mobile ...

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget has attracted more than $6 million in deposits within the first week of launching an institutional-grade staking program for Monad, a high-throughput layer-one blockchain that went live ...

When Jeremiah Musa needed to hire reporters for The Bit Gazette, his Dubai-based cryptocurrency publication, he didn't post listings in London, New York, or Singapore—the traditional hubs of financial journalism. ...