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Quidax, a Nigerian startup that lets users buy and sell digital assets and provides liquidity to other startups, has expanded its business-to-business (B2B) operations across 21 corridors, including Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya, deepening its push into stablecoin-based settlement infrastructure.   The shift toward enterprise-focused products is becoming more visible across the industry. On July 28, Luno, the UK-headquartered crypto company with a regional base in South Africa and operations in Nigeria, Kenya, and Uganda, said it would cut 20% of its global workforce as it increased its focus on institutional products and services amid weaker retail trading activity. Bitcoin’s 24-hour trading…

When Onafriq announced a partnership with Privy on July 29, 2026, to build “regulated stablecoin infrastructure for B2Bs across Africa,” it was not the company’s first such announcement this year. Conduit arrived in February, framed around institutional cross-border settlement. VALR followed in April, publicly positioned as Onafriq, tapping into VALR’s infrastructure for local-currency funding. Yuno followed in June, positioned around merchant payment acceptance and orchestration for global merchants. Then came Privy in July. Put to Onafriq directly, the pattern of repeated, similarly worded partnership announcements raised an obvious question: are these four deals overlapping, redundant, or actually distinct pieces of…

Snap announced it will stop recommending “wholly AI-generated videos” in its Spotlight feed, prioritizing human-made content.This decision follows similar actions by YouTube, LinkedIn, and Substack in recent weeks to limit fully AI-generated material, often referred to as “AI slop.” Snap will continue to allow AI-enhanced or edited videos in Spotlight recommendations.Snap stated on Friday that entirely AI-generated content is often low-quality, repetitive, and generally not aligned with user preferences.Snap Joins Other Platforms in Targeting AI SlopSnap’s update affects recommendations in the Spotlight feed but does not ban AI content entirely. The platform will no longer feature wholly AI-generated videos in…

A businessman turned contender for his father’s succession, Franck Biya is patiently weaving his web. From family to business circles, from the seat of government to the elites of the Grand Nord via sporting stars – here is a map of his network. Published on August 02, 2026 at 11:30 am (GMT +1) A few years ago, the idea of Franck Biya as Cameroon’s vice-president and constitutional successor to his father, President Paul Biya, would have seemed far-fetched. A businessman long based between Los Angeles, Johannesburg and Paris, the eldest son of Paul Biya and Jeanne-Irène Biya had never stood…

African governments are accelerating the use of digital platforms for taxation, procurement, healthcare, identity management, social protection and municipal services. However, the success of this transition depends on more than software, connectivity or data infrastructure. It also depends on who controls technology decisions, how public money is allocated, whether risks are monitored and whether digital investments improve services for citizens. A systematic review titled “Antecedents, Decisions, and Outcomes for ICT Governance Adoption in the African Public Sector: A Systematic Review Based on McClelland Theory and ADO Framework,” published in the journal Computers, argues that this institutional layer remains uneven across…

The organisers of the Innovation and Scale Forum (ISF) are positioning this year’s edition as a reflection of a broader shift in Africa’s startup ecosystem, where founders are increasingly looking beyond domestic markets in search of regional growth, investment, and long-term sustainability. The fourth edition of the ISF Forum, scheduled for November 27-28 in Ibadan, will convene more than 3,000 participants, over 50 speakers, and an online audience expected to exceed 10,000 viewers from more than 20 countries under the theme “Scale Without Borders.” The theme comes at a time when African technology companies are moving from proving business models…

EBID supports agricultural transformation in The Gambia with $10.04 million financing for G Farms Ltd – African Business EBID supports agricultural transformation in The Gambia with $10.04 million financing for G Farms Ltd – African Business

In brief CZ warned on X that even hardware wallets and long-established wallets can have bugs, suggesting holders split their funds across several wallets to mitigate risk while noting no setup is fully foolproof. The warning follows a Coldcard exploit stemming from a March 2021 firmware build error that drew seeds from a software fallback instead of the hardware generator, making private keys far easier to guess. Galaxy Research, mapping the fund flows from a pattern identified by Block engineers, now pegs losses at about 1,082.65 BTC (~$70.2 million) across 1,196 addresses—nearly double the original $38 million estimate. Binance founder…

Ava Anthony arrived in Thailand expecting little more than a holiday. What she found instead unsettled the way she thought about music. One evening, inside a jazz bar, she watched performers whose ease on stage felt almost rehearsed into instinct. Beyond the live performances, she discovered an industry built on years of deliberate preparation, in which aspiring artists could spend seven to nine years training before a record label would consider them ready to debut. For Anthony, a Nigerian singer-songwriter who performs under the stage name ‘Denle,’ the experience raised an uncomfortable question. If Afrobeats has become one of the…

Every time Chrome connects to a website, it sends along a short line of text identifying the browser, operating system, and device it is running on. This is called a user-agent string, and websites use it to decide what version of a page to serve. Chrome’s introduction, however, reads like an identity crisis. Open Chrome, press F12 (or Ctrl + Shift + I), navigate to the browser’s Console tab, type navigator.userAgent, and press Enter to read what comes back. Some laptops require Fn + F12 instead. On my Windows machine, the resulting string looks like this: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0;…