Blockchain
Mastercard to Develop New Blockchain-Powered Cross-Border Payments Solution
Mastercard and R3, an enterprise blockchain software provider, are developing a new blockchain-enabled cross-border payments solution to simplify clearance of...
Naspers invests $2.33m into DappRadar, a tracking platform for blockchain apps
Naspers' investment arm, Naspers Ventures has invested $2.33 million into Lithuania-based DappRadar, a global platform for discovering and analysing blockchain-based...
Naspers-backed crypto platform Luno hits 3 million users, adds Bitcoin Cash
Luno, a South African-based Naspers-backed cryptocurrency firm has reached 3 million users and added Bitcoin Cash (BCH) to help its...
Kiva, Sierra Leone Govt Launch a Blockchain-Based National ID
Kiva and the Sierra Leone government have partnered to launch a national digital identity platform to bolster national identity and...
Zolango, inspired life in a Nairobi Slum, is a Marketplace for Bitcoin lovers
Founded by Amit Aggarwal, Andrei Kaleis and MVK, Zolango, an ecommerce marketplace has gone live and is offering to buy...
IBM,Cisco, Nokia & Vodafone Launch a Blockchain-Based Supplier Management Platform
IBM and Chainyard have launched Trust Your Supplier (TYS), a new blockchain supplier management platform built on the IBM Blockchain Platform and hosted...
Bittrex & Rain partner to simplify buying & selling of Cryptocurrency in the MENA region
Bittrex, a digital asset trading platform and cryptocurrency platform Rain, has launched a digital asset trading platform for users in the...
Blockchain startup Belfrics Group closing $30 million in its first round of funding
Belfrics, a Malaysia based Blockchain startup, is set to raise $30 million in its first-ever round of funding led by global investors after...
Huobi & CASHU partner to make cryptocurrency trade easy for users in North Africa & Middle East
Huobi and the MENA-regional online payments giant CASHU are making accessing cryptocurrency as easy as buying a Netflix subscription or...
Binance Charity Event Raises Over $170,000, Delivers Solar Panels for Children in Uganda
Binance Charity, through its first annual Binance Charity Poker Cup. hosted by TronBet raised more than $170,000 to fund solar...
BitTorrent private trackers: old, inaccessible, but surprisingly alive
The torrent seems to be going through a rough patch. Governments around the world have been in charge of restricting...
Ripple buys a $50m stake in MoneyGram for its global blockchain-based money transfer services
Ripple, a provider of leading enterprise blockchain solutions for global payments, has bought a $50m stake in MoneyGram in a...
Kenya’s UTU Technologies & Hong Kong’s Graychain collaborate to enhance access to credit in Africa
Nairobi-based UTU Technologies and Hong Kong-based Graychain to give UTU's customers the ability to link their UTU profile to the...
BanQu, a non-cryptocurrency blockchain platform, raises Series A extension to help lift people out of extreme poverty
BanQu, a non-cryptocurrency blockchain platform has raised an undisclosed Series A extension round to help lift people out of extreme...
Visa’s Blockchain-based Visa B2B Connect for global cross-border payments launches
Visa has commercially launched its Blockchain-powered Visa B2B Connect network, giving financial institutions an ability to quickly and securely process...
Binance Labs Reveals 13 Startups in its Incubation Program
Binance Labs, the venture arm of leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance,has announced the 13 newest projects to graduate from its incubation...
Block.one launches Voice, a blockchain-based social media platform that rewards its users
Block.one, a blockchain software firm has launched Voice, a blockchain-based social media site which rewards its users. “The truth is,...
Hong Kong’s P2P bitcoin platform Coincola launches in Nigeria to take on Paxful
CoinCola, based out of Hong Kong has launched in Nigeria to take advantage of the growing popularity of Blockchain Technology...
Nigeria’s Interswitch partners with KuBitX to take Blockchain Services to the Grassroots
Interswitch, a Nigerian-based African fintech company operating in 16 countries across Africa, has partnered with KuBitX to help build Blockchain...
Nigeria’s Kudi Exchange set to launch Africa’s “Coinbase + Venmo” powered by Ferrum Network
Nigeria's Kudi Exchange, is set to launch to become Africa's “Coinbase + Venmo” allowing users to buy and sell digital...
Amazon Web Services’ Managed Blockchain Service goes live to take Blockchain mainstream
Amazon Web Services Inc., an Amazon.com company has launched its Amazon Managed Blockchain service to make it easy to create...
The Power of Blockchain and AI Technology for Poker
A lot of people today make use of online casinos for good reasons. One, you don’t really have to go...
Blockchain Technology in Business
The blockchain is a technology that many experts consider it to be the future. However, we know a lot of...
Kenya’s Blockchain Startup CapAgri selected into æternity Ventures’s 2nd Starfleet Accelerator Program
Kenya's CapAGRI Africa, a last-mile mobile financing platform for Smallholder farmers across African Agricultural Markets has been selected among the...
BitMart Forms JV with Paxful, Moves to Enter the Peer-to-Peer Financial Revolution
BitMart Exchange, a digital asset trading platform has entered into a joint venture with peer-to-peer payment logistics platform Paxful in...
Electroneum to launch M1, an $80 cryptocurrency mining Android phone
UK-based Electroneum is set to launch M1, an $80 android device that empowers users to be paid in return for...
Coindirect raises €1m to bring local currency trading to crypto & financial freedom across Africa & Europe
Coindirect, the global cryptocurrency platform, has raised €1m in an investment round led by Concentric, with participation from Blockchain.com, and MakerDAO. The end-to-end...
DFS Lab wants your fintech startup to build on Mojaloop & get seed capital this April
Digital Financial Services Lab (DFS Lab) which has invested in several companies including Ghana's Inclusive, Kenya's Pezesha and Pula and...
SA’s smart meter firm Conlog launches blockchain incubation programme in partnership with Tshimologong Precinct
Smart metering solutions provider, Conlog, has partnered with Wits University’s Tshimologong Precinct to launch blockchain and smart city solutions incubation program via its...
Ford, Huayou Cobalt, IBM, LG Chem and RCS Global Launch Blockchain Pilot to Address Concerns in Mineral Supply Chains
Ford Motor Company, Huayou Cobalt, IBM, LG Chem and RCS Global announced plans to use blockchain technology to trace and...