crypto@scale

Jul 20 2023 10 ep. 44 mins 6

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Africa’s hype-free crypto podcast. A pragmatic exploration of how crypto is being used across Africa. Hosted by Gwera Kiwana and Justin Norman.

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NFTs at Work with Afropolitan's Eche Emole & Momint's Ahren Posthumus

Jul 20 2023 34 mins

In today's episode, we're talking about NFTs. Now, here at crypto@scale, we'd like to talk about the pragmatic use cases for crypto technology. And while NFTs, as a digital tradable asset, have had a lot of focus from an art perspective, we want to take our conversation about use cases a step further.In today's episode, we're joined by Eche Emole, co-founder of Afropolitan, and Ahr

Why Crypto Needs Africa with Yoseph Ayele

Jul 05 2023 38 mins

In today's episode, we're talking about why Web3 and crypto need Africa. We're joined by founder and investor Yoseph Ayele, who we first met in Nairobi earlier this year, during a four-country learning and listening tour he organized with the Ethereum Foundation, for which they were joined by Ethereum founder, Vitalik Buterin.Yoseph believes that crypto needs Africa, and he's worki

Global Crypto's Focus on Africa with Visa's Cuy Sheffield & Stellar's Tori Samples

Jun 22 2023 49 mins

Here at crypto@scale, we're of the belief that Africa is home to market conditions that will enable widespread, mainstream crypto adoption, and that many of the most immediate and meaningful crypto use cases will happen on the continent. We’re not the only ones who think that - and in today’s episode we’re joined by two friends from outside of the continent who are both deepl

Wallets & Crypto Adoption with Nestcoin's Yele Bademosi & WalletConnect's Will White

Jun 08 2023 51 mins

In today’s episode, we’re joined by Yele Bademosi, the Co-founder and CEO of Nestcoin, and Will White, the COO of WalletConnect, to talk about a critical piece of crypto infrastructure: Wallets.When talking about wallets here, we’re talking about non-custodial wallets - where users have full access and control over their private keys, unlike a custodial wallet which relies on

Inside the Lazerpay Shutdown: A Conversation with Njoku Emmanuel

May 25 2023 44 mins

In today's episode, we welcome Lazerpay’s Njoku Emmanuel to the show.In April 2023, Lazerpay announced that it would be shutting its doors in April of 2023. The startup, which was founded at the height of the crypto bull market in 2021, and to much fanfare Njoku who was just 19 years old at the time, promised to bring seamless crypto payments to Africa.But since it shut down, a l

Bringing DeFi Lending to the Real World

May 10 2023 59 mins

While DeFi, or decentralized finance, has seen a volatile rise in adoption within the crypto ecosystem, the big question in our context is to what extent this model and technology can be adopted and adapted for lending use cases across emerging markets, where there is an over $100 billion credit gap, according to the IFC. To explore that question further, we're joined in this episo

Africa's Peer-to-Peer Story

Apr 25 2023 28 mins

African markets are inherently peer-to-peer. And peer-to-peer markets, whether formal digital marketplaces or informal trading groups on WhatsApp and Telegram, have played an important role in the adoption of crypto across African markets. According to Chainalysis, the transaction volume from peer-to-peer exchanges in sub-Saharan Africa more than doubles the share of the next close

In Centralised Exchanges We Trust?

Apr 11 2023 43 mins

In today's episode of crypto@scale, we're exploring centralized exchanges with our two guests, Ruth Iselema, the CEO of Bitmama, and Chris Maurice, the CEO of Yellow Card. There's a lot of strong opinions about the role of centralization in crypto, particularly in the aftermath of FTX. Yet, centralized exchanges still provide perhaps the easiest on- and off-ramps into the crypto ec

Stablecoins: Africa's Killer Crypto App

Mar 30 2023 65 mins

In this episode of crytpo@scale, we're exploring what might be Africa's killer crypto app, stablecoins. According to data from Coinmetrics, cumulative Stablecoin volumes are at a $9 trillion annualized run rate, exceeding the volumes of all major card networks, except for Visa. Across the African continent, stablecoins are finding meaningful uptake, particularly in markets with low

Introducing crypto@scale

Mar 27 2023 31 mins

Introducing crypto@scale, a new show from The Flip, co-hosted by MFS Africa's Head of Crypto, Gwera Kiwana, and The Flip's Justin Norman.crypto@scale is a pragmatic and hopefully hype-free exploration of the crypto ecosystem across the African continent. Today's episode is a conversation recorded live from Nairobi last month. In this conversation, we share our perspectives on the s