For most of the internet era, the biggest technological revolutions have followed a familiar pattern; breakthroughs appear, innovation explodes, and startups emerge everywhere, and then, over time, power concentrates around a small group of dominant companies. Search became...
Crypto has for many years promised a financial system without banks, and one of its fastest-growing sectors looks surprisingly similar to traditional lending. On-chain private credit has become one of the biggest stories in decentralized finance, and while...
On a recent episode of TechCabal's What's Next for African Payments?, Flutterwave and Andela co-founder Iyin Aboyeji was asked a question many African crypto founders would have preferred he dodged: can Africa produce a blockchain unicorn within the...
When Bitget announced Cash Plus, a lot of people saw it as another crypto earn product that allows users to convert USDT or USDC into a yield-generating balance while keeping their funds liquid for future trading. The product...
The next big battle in Web3 may not involve humans at all, but the quiet systems behind the tools that power AI agents, racing toward capabilities most users don't fully grasp yet. These systems have become one of...
In 2020 and 2021, decentralized finance looked like the future of money; you could lend crypto, borrow against your assets, swap tokens without an intermediary, and earn yields that seemed almost too good to be true. New protocols...
BlackRock's IBIT now holds over a million Bitcoin. BNY Mellon and State Street have both launched digital asset custody services integrated directly into their existing account infrastructure. Franklin Templeton and Ondo Finance are running tokenized US Treasury products...
Artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency have felt like two separate revolutions unfolding simultaneously. One promised machines capable of reasoning, learning, and making decisions, while the other promised open financial systems that could move value without traditional intermediaries. Both attracted...
Discourse on Bitcoin has followed a familiar script over the years because its supporters often refer to it as digital gold. Investors argued over whether it could replace traditional stores of value, while economists debated whether it even...
Crypto came into 2026 with more going for it than at any point in the past few years. Total circulating stablecoin supply is well into the hundreds of billions, sitting at approximately $311 billion to $315 billion as...
