Published: April 30, 2026 Spain’s largest crypto exchange, Bit2Me, made a quiet bold decision back in 2024. It stopped chasing retail traders. Instead, it started building infrastructure for banks and law enforcement. The bet is paying off. In 2025, the company’s trading volume jumped eightfold to about €5.3 billion, or roughly $6.2 billion. Much of that…
Published on April 13, 2026 Coinbase has rolled out crypto-backed loans in the United Kingdom, giving eligible customers a way to borrow the dollar-pegged stablecoin USD Coin without selling their digital assets. The service allows users to access up to $5 million in USDC by pledging cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, ether, and Coinbase’s wrapped staked…
Lagos, Nigeria – Kenya based fintech innovator Honeycoin has closed a $4.5 million Series B funding round to scale its stablecoin payment infrastructure across the continent, in a deal that signals growing institutional confidence in crypto-powered remittances and trade finance. The round—led by Pantera Capital with participation from Standard Bank and Flutterwave—values the based startup at…
IMF Sounds Alarm on Stablecoin Volatility: New Data Reveals $14.8B “Hot Money” Crisis in Emerging Markets Washington, D.C. – An IMF working paper has exposed an underbelly of stablecoin adoption, revealing how $14.8 billion in volatile digital dollar flows are destabilizing emerging markets—with African economies bearing the brunt of the turbulence. The July 2025 study, based…
Nairobi, Kenya – Africa has emerged as the global leader in cryptocurrency adoption for education payments, with 37% of all crypto transactions on the continent now linked to learning-related expenses, according to a new Chainalysis report. From university tuition to coding bootcamps, African students and institutions are leveraging digital assets to overcome financial barriers—creating a $2.1 billion crypto education economy…
