Author name: Chasing Mavericks

Introduction South Africa has taken a significant step toward formalising how crypto assets move across its borders. On 3 August 2026, the National Treasury and the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) jointly released a draft Crypto Assets Manual for cross-border activities, opening it up for public comment. For the first time, the country is spelling […]

Introduction Kenya has quietly become East Africa’s most important Web3 proving ground, and a new report from Hashed Emergent, with knowledge partners Web3 Developer Clubs and the Virtual Assets Chamber of Commerce, lays out exactly why. For anyone building bridges between global capital, corporates, and Africa’s blockchain economy, this is essential reading. Here’s what stands

Introduction Moving money across Africa has never been simple. Onafriq – the payments network connecting banks, mobile money operators, merchants, and enterprises in 43 African markets, linking over a billion mobile wallets and 500 million bank accounts, knows this better than most.  Now the company is betting that stablecoins can make its own treasury operations

Introduction A new Standard Chartered and Zodia Markets report finds that the biggest gaps in the stablecoin economy aren’t in Europe or North America, they’re in the very markets that are supposedly least ready for them. Stablecoins have become vital infrastructure for digital payments, treasury operations and cross-border transactions. Yet more than 98% of stablecoin