How Africans Use Stablecoins to Beat Inflation in 2025

How Africans Use Stablecoins to Beat Inflation in 2025

Key takeaways:  Stablecoins are now everyday tools for savings, payments and trade in Nairobi and Lagos. Inflation, FX swings and high remittance costs drive adoption. Mobile money links make stablecoins feel familiar and practical. Risks remain around reserves, scams and shifting regulations. On a Tuesday morning in Nairobi, Amina invoices a client in Berlin. By…

Bitcoin at Historic Highs: What Next?

Bitcoin at Historic Highs: What Next?

This is an analysis post by CoinDesk analyst and Chartered Market Technician Omkar Godbole. As bitcoin BTC$124,779.68 trades in uncharted territory near record highs, traders may be searching for cues on what comes next, especially key levels that could act as magnets or resistance points. Here are three important levels worth watching closely. $126,100 This…

Tether seeks $200 million to build its tokenized gold treasury

Tether seeks $200 million to build its tokenized gold treasury

Tether has announced plans to seek about $200 million in funding to build its tokenized gold treasury. The project is expected to be in collaboration with Antalpha Platform, which is tied closely to Bitmain. The duo is trying to pull in funds from investors to launch a public vehicle that would hold tokenized gold. According…

XRP And XLM’s ISO 20022 Compliance: Why It Matters

XRP And XLM’s ISO 20022 Compliance: Why It Matters

This article explores what is ISO 20022 and how XRP and XLM could leverage the new standard in the market. The crypto community often touts XRP and Stellar (XLM) as ISO 20022-compliant assets. Their status as “bridge currencies” for cross-border payments positions them at the forefront of the next evolution of global finance. However, some…

Solana Is The New Wall Street For Tokenization

Solana Is The New Wall Street For Tokenization

Chief investment officer of crypto asset management firm Bitwise, Matt Hougan, thinks Solana will be the Wall Street network of choice for stablecoins and real-world asset tokenization. “I think Solana is the new Wall Street,” said Hougan, speaking with Solana Labs’ Akshay Rajan on Oct. 2. He added that the Wall Street audiences consider Bitcoin…

Solana Is the New Wall Street, Says Bitwise CIO, Calling It ‘Extraordinarily Attractive’

Solana Is the New Wall Street, Says Bitwise CIO, Calling It ‘Extraordinarily Attractive’

Solana’s role in the race to capture tokenized markets won new attention this week when Bitwise CIO Matthew Hougan called it “the new Wall Street.” Speaking with Solana Labs’ Akshay Rajan on Oct. 2, Hougan said global financial leaders increasingly recognize the disruptive potential of stablecoins and tokenization. He noted that the heads of the…

Microsoft taps Anthropic to increase AI assistant beyond OpenAI

Microsoft taps Anthropic to increase AI assistant beyond OpenAI

Microsoft has announced that business users can now pick between OpenAI and Anthropic models inside its Copilot AI assistant. The company mentioned that the development began on Wednesday, and it is the first time Microsoft is giving customers direct access to Anthropic’s models in its workplace AI system. Before now, Copilot was entirely run on…