JOSEPH KANGETHE, Author at Web 3 Africa

JOSEPH KANGETHE

I am a tech, business, and investment news reporter covering Africa. Most of what is good in Africa is obscured by preconceptions, yet there is still a lot of good going on. Technology is what is driving the continent and this is my passion. For Africa, I share the stories that are important to Africans.

How NFTs and blockchain technologies can harmonize the chaotic land rights in Kenya and Tanzania

Post-independence, Kenya and Tanzania have grappled with reconciling traditional land ownership systems with modern legal frameworks. Land conflicts have not only led...

News September 11, 2023

Ethereum’s Eigen Layer: A game-changer for liquid staking governance

Eigen Layer is a remarkable project integrated into the Ethereum ecosystem, designed to enable external projects and chains to harness Ethereum Validators. Eigen...

News September 7, 2023

Coinbase Exchange introduces its latest Layer2 network upgrade, the Base Blockchain network

Coinbase has over 89 million users and more than $278 billion worth of crypto assets on the platform. The exchange has accumulated about...

News September 5, 2023

Tools For Humanity CEO speaks on the Worldcoin project in Kenya amid health risk concerns

According to the Health Cabinet Secretary Susan Nakhumicha, the scanning technology employed by Worldcoin may have inadvertently exposed Kenyan citizens to potential health...

News September 4, 2023

Transforming communication across Africa through decentralized internet

With sixty-six percent of the continent unbanked blockchain promises to play a critical role in the decentralization of finance in Africa Decentralized finance...

News September 1, 2023

The growing need for crypto regulation in Africa

Among the challenges that regulators face include determining how to classify cryptocurrencies under existing legal frameworks, Know-Your-Customer (KYC) compliance, and addressing concerns over...

News August 31, 2023

Crypto jobs available for Africans in 2023

The number of individuals working in the blockchain industry increased by 76 percent year-on-year as of June 2022 Access to education has rapidly...

News August 30, 2023

Key takeaways from African Presidents at the 15th BRICS summit

With the inclusion of six nations in the developing countries bloc, BRICS now controls 30 percent of the global economy BRICS appears more...

News August 28, 2023

BRICS admit six countries to the bloc, seeks to boost local currency lending

BRICS total GDP now stands at US$30.76 trillion, controlling about 30 percent of the global economy The new countries to join BRICS include...

News August 27, 2023

How to acquire citizenship and land ownership in the CAR through cryptocurrency

The CAR recently expanded its Sango blockchain digital initiative to include the tokenization of land and natural resources President Faustin Archange Touadera plans...

News August 23, 2023

Google offers digital skills training opportunities to 20,000 Nigerians.

Google has set aside a grant of $1.6 million to equip 20,000 Nigerian youths, especially women The intends to help the government achieve...

News August 17, 2023

Curve Finance guarantees users a refund following the US$62 million hack

Curve Finance, A DeFi stablecoin lending platform, has assured its users a refund following the July 30 security breach that saw the firm...

News August 15, 2023

Blockchain Network congestion: A threat to digital service delivery

When the number of transactions initiated in a network exceeds its capacity to process them, the network is referred to as being congested ...

News August 14, 2023

Proof of personhood: Which works best, iris scan or fingerprints?

The current World population stands at 8.1 billion as of August 2023, challenging any system that seeks to identify each human uniquely. The...

News August 11, 2023

PayPal launches its stablecoin, Paypal USD, pegged to the dollar.

Paypal, a digital payment platform, has just launched its US-dollar-pegged stablecoin dubbed PayPal USD. The company is optimistic that the future will have...

News August 8, 2023

Key takeaways from the Coingecko 2023 Q2 crypto industry report

The average trading volume declined 58.7 percent, from US$33.4 billion in the first quarter to US$13.8 billion in the second quarter. Bitcoin experienced...

News August 7, 2023

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