The world has seen the creation of a new category of digital assets in recent years. The assets range from shitcoins to NFT, stablecoins to Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), and a new sort of legal personality (DAO) and Metaverse. Digital assets are establishing a new legal, financial, and social paradigm in Africa, with Cameroon playing a crucial role.

Decentralized exchanges (DEXs), borrowing and lending platforms, and yield farms are all protocols in the DeFi area. Users may participate in the DeFi ecosystem more efficiently since there are no centralized middlemen. However, there are also more significant dangers. These dangers include protocol codebase flaws, hacker attempts, and malicious protocols. Combined with the extreme volatility of the crypto market in general, these dangers may make it more difficult for DeFi to gain widespread acceptance among typical consumers. On the other hand, workarounds and improvements in the blockchain domain may solve these problems.

The metaverse is a virtual space that connects several platforms, similar to how the internet connects various websites that offer access through a single...

Through varied financial services, open transactions, and accessibility via a permissionless network, DeFi appears to reverse inequality and effectively increase financial inclusion across the board.

The historic AfCFTA agreement has created the world's largest free trade zone by the number of nations that have signed on. Across 55 nations, it links 1.3 billion people and generates US $3.4 trillion in the total gross domestic product (GDP).