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In April 2018, while the country was still litigating a nullified presidential vote, a Kenyan-founded venture put a school’s student government election on a smart contract. Nobody – including the people who wrote it – could see the count.
In September 2017, Kenya’s Supreme Court did something no court on the continent had done before. It annulled a presidential electi...
JPMorgan deposits $38 million with the central bank of Nigeria ahead of banking licence.
JPMorgan Chase has deposited 50 billion naira ($38 million) with the Central Bank of Nigeria as it moves closer to securing a merchant banking licence, Bloomberg has reported.
The deposit meets a key regulatory requirement and signals the U.S. bank’s readiness to expand beyo...
BlackRock has filed for a new Bitcoin-linked exchange-traded fund designed to limit some downside risk while capping potential gains, as the world’s largest asset manager expands beyond straightforward Bitcoin price exposure.
MasterCard has introduced a risk-screening service for stablecoin payments that allows financial institutions to assess potential fraud, scams, and sanctions exposure before funds move on-chain as the payments company expands its digital asset infrastructure.
The service, called Stablecoin Security, combines payment data with blockchain intelligence to generate risk sc...
Crypto theft rose 55% quarter-on-quarter to $1.18 billion in the third quarter of 2026, across 107 incidents, according to blockchain security firm Hacken.
Smart-contract exploits accounted for 48% of losses, while access-control and operational failures made up 40%. Losses linked to compromised keys and operational failures fell about 30% from the previous quarter.