Close to 100 people attended the latest stop on our Kenyan crypto tour, the first-ever blockchain event in the city of Nakuru, North West Kenya. After several days of engagement, our team left yet another nascent but enthusiastic NEAR community of students with the potential to become NEAR’s third Kenyan…

Kisumu is not only the largest and most important city in Western Kenya but it is the gateway to Lake Victoria, the largest lake on the continent. …

Twenty-four days ago we announced arguably the most exciting opportunity for NEAR in East Africa, if not the entire continent of Africa: NEAR’s first crypto tour of Kenya, one of Africa’s most tech innovative countries. Our objective through the tour is to grow NEAR’s user base in Kenya by increasing…

The Sankore 2.0 Guild, established in June 2021, has grown exponentially on the back of the Kenyan population’s hunger for DeFi and familiarity with mobile finance, which I wrote about last month in a Medium post. At NEAR|CON Lisbon we provided even more contextual and historical background to Sankore’s origin…

Africa has the youngest population in the world, a population that is increasingly tech-savvy, creative and hungry for new opportunities. …

For the second year in a row, Kenya leads the world in the peer-to-peer crypto trade, reveals Chainalysis in its 2021 Global Crypto Adoption Index¹. Other African countries are also jumping at the opportunity to protect cross-border remittances and businesses from costly transfer fees and the risk of weakening currencies. …

According to the Chainalysis 2021 Global Crypto Adoption Index¹, Kenya is in the top 5 of 154 countries analysed for global crypto-trading activity. Despite the increased use of cryptocurrency and other blockchain solutions by Kenyans, the government remains reluctant to regulate the industry with simple but clear rules, which are…

The popularity of community inclusion cryptocurrencies in Kenya keeps growing, with rural farmers adopting the digital financial technology. According to a report, some rural farmers in Kenya now accept to be paid in cryptocurrency and use it to buy agricultural supplies or meet basic needs. According to a VOA’s report¹…

UTU TRUST: A Real Decentralised Model of Human Trust. Kenyan-based company UTU Trust (Swahili word for “Humanity”) launched on November 4th 2020 on a mission to make us trust digital platforms in the same way that we trust in real life¹. …