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Co-Founder of Africa Focused Fintech: Traditional Banks Not Optimized to Serve the Unbanked

For years, traditional financial institutions in different parts of the world have been attempting to narrow the financial exclusion gap by extending their services to the unbanked population. Yet for…

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DeFi protocols launch stablecoins to lure new users and liquidity, but does it work?

In the wake of UST’s collapse, several DeFi platforms launched their own stablecoins to lasso new users and liquidity but are investors willing to take on the risk in return…

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Aussie banks ANZ and NAB won’t ‘endorse’ retail speculation on crypto

Executives from two of Australia’s “big four” banks have said they won’t allow their retail customers to trade crypto with ANZ adding its happy it didn’t “go head long” into…

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China state media signals tighter crypto regulations in Terra aftermath

China has used its Economic Daily media outlet to signal that further regulatory action may be taken toward stablecoins in the wake of the collapse of Terra’s algorithmic stablecoin.

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Tron Now Commands the Third-Largest TVL in Defi — Network’s Stablecoin USDD Confronted by Skepticism

This week the Tron blockchain has become the third-largest network in terms of total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) protocols. Interestingly, 48.19% of the TVL is held by…

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