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Web3 Advocate | Ecosystem lead @EthioBW | prev Ecosystem Growth @wagatoken | Builder

[Ethiopian Blockchain Week @EthioBW]

🇪🇹One in 10 Digital Payments Fails in Ethiopia, NBE Official Warns

Ethiopia’s digital finance sector is booming, but it has hit a serious bottleneck. Speaking at the Huawei Finance Summit 2026, Dr. Naoll Addisu from the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) revealed that roughly 8% of digital transactions fail, often leaving users stuck between banks for months trying to recover funds.

While the country processed a massive 24 billion digital transactions in just nine months, the central bank warns that opening accounts isn't enough true financial inclusion means reliable, affordable access. Currently, 70% of rural Ethiopia is still on 2G networks, and fragmented systems like unlinked merchant QR codes are holding progress back.

To solve this, the NBE is pushing for major structural upgrades, including smart contracts, programmable infrastructure, and domestic cloud systems to secure the nation's financial sovereignty.
For local tech builders, the message is clear: the focus must shift from simply onboarding users to engineering the bulletproof, interoperable payment rails the economy needs to scale safely.

#FintechEthiopia #DigitalEconomy #FinancialInclusion #NBE #TechInfrastructure

[Hana Terefe @hananext]

Organizing an initiative as massive as Ethiopian Blockchain Week 2026 is an incredible journey, but it also reveals exactly where we need to grow as an ecosystem.

Right now, our biggest challenges aren't technical they are structural:

1. The Connection Gap: We see so many local and international companies that would *greatly* benefit from connecting directly with their future customers, users, and tech talent at EBW. Yet, bridging that initial communication gap remains a hurdle.

2. The Collaboration Gap: To truly build a thriving tech ecosystem, we have to break out of our individual silos. Real innovation doesn't happen in isolation; it happens when developers, companies, policymakers, and community leaders actively collaborate and share resources.
The Bigger Picture
Ethiopia has bold, inspiring aspirations to become a leading African tech hub a vision strongly backed by national frameworks like the Digital Ethiopia 2030 strategy. But a tech hub isn't just built on paper or by a single team; it requires an active, united ecosystem. When global and local brands show up, collaborate, and invest in our community, it accelerates our entire country's economic and digital transformation.

This is an Open Invitation📬
To the companies looking to anchor their brand at the center of East Africa's rapid Web3 and tech adoption, and to the ecosystem builders driving local innovation:
Our doors are wide open.

Let’s not just watch the future happen let’s build it together. Reach out to us to explore official collaborations, workshops, and sponsorship tracks.

🔗 Get involved: https://t.co/g8LiFPbDJT
https://t.co/GgHArRWc80
@haniccha2
#EBW2026 #DigitalEthiopia #Web3Africa #TechInnovation #BlockchainEthiopia #Collaboration

[Ethiopian Blockchain Week @EthioBW]

🇪🇹|| MESOB App: The New Backbone of Ethiopia’s Digital Identity

Prime Minister @AbiyAhmedAli officially inaugurated the Unified MESOB Application at the Science Museum’s Digital for Excellence exhibition. Developed by the Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute, MESOB is Africa's first unified digital service app, combining 27 critical public services across multiple state institutions into a single platform.

This rollout directly complements Ethiopia's milestone of surpassing 5 million enrollments under the 5 Million Ethiopian Coders Initiative. By building its own AI-driven platforms, the state is rapidly reducing its long-term reliance on external, third-party software to power the domestic digital economy.

The strategy behind this initiative is that the government is laying down the digital rails, identity frameworks, and talent pools required for a modernized nation. For tech builders, the next big opportunity lies in engineering the secure, compliant applications that will seamlessly integrate with this newly established national tech foundation.

#MESOBPlatform #DigitalEthiopia2030 #AIEthiopia #TechInfrastructure #SovereignTech

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@Eyuel88 Huge 🔥🔥

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@Mr_Jay_Pee Say something about this

[Rockstar Games @RockstarGames]

Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will officially begin on June 25 on digital storefronts and at other select retailers.

Check out the official cover art, also available as downloadable artwork at https://t.co/XPwC8URCQ4

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@RockstarGames Finally 😭😭

[Ethiopian Blockchain Week @EthioBW]

🇪🇹|| The Shift Toward a Regulated Digital Birr

​Beyond infrastructure, a massive structural shift is quietly happening within Ethiopia's domestic financial strategy.

��The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) recently released its draft National Digital Payments Strategy (2026–2030), actively steering the country toward a fully modernized, digital-first economy. Alongside this, the central bank has gained the formal authority to develop and issue a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), with early groundwork for a Digital Birr picking up major momentum.

​For the local tech ecosystem, the takeaway is clear the government is heavily prioritizing financial digitization, but strictly through formal, institutional frameworks.

As state authorities transition from closed legacy systems into heavily regulated digital asset infrastructure, the doors are opening for compliant Web3 platforms to help bridge the gap.

​The future of Ethiopian digital finance is being written right now and it’s completely institutional.

#EthiopianBlockchainWeek #DigitalEthiopia2030 #Web3Ethiopia #DigitalBirr #FintechEthiopia

[Ethiopian Blockchain Week @EthioBW]

What an incredible Space tonight!

Huge thanks to @Eyuel88 (Conso Telegram Africa Head) for jumping on and dropping absolute gems on the big picture of blockchain, crypto utility, and what the future holds for the African ecosystem.

Shoutout to everyone who tuned in and went crazy in the replies for our live emoji game congrats to our fast-fingered winners!

Missed the live session or want to run back the insights? Don't sweat it.

Listen to the full recording right here 👇

Make sure you follow us and turn notifications on so you don't miss the next one! 🔔

[Ethiopian Blockchain Week @EthioBW]

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@alamin87950 You're not alone bro

[Ethiopian Blockchain Week @EthioBW]

Ethiopia Rises to #8 Globally in Bitcoin Mining

​Ethiopia has quietly become a global powerhouse in blockchain infrastructure, officially climbing to the #8 top country globally for Bitcoin mining. Powered by mega-projects like the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), the country now commands roughly 2.6% of the global network hashrate.

​The secret sauce? An abundance of sustainable, renewable energy priced at a fraction of global costs, combined with strong state support via Ethiopian Investment Holdings. Major international infrastructure firms have already deployed hundreds of megawatts near Addis Ababa.

​As the nation executes its Digital Ethiopia 2030 strategy, the focus is clear: Ethiopia isn't just participating in the Web3 revolution... it is helping power its core foundation.

[GRIGGS @0xGRIGGS]

Wait is this real?

I spent a whole year working on $soso, teaching my community about their ecosystem, boarding people to the project and this is what I get?

I really hope the @SoSoValueCrypto team reviews all this and give us all what we deserve 🙏

[Ethiopian Blockchain Week @EthioBW]

Our Friday space is here! 🥳

Join us today as we talk to Eyuel about all things TON and the East Africa Web3 ecosystem.

Bring your questions, your hot takes, and your coffee ☕️ Let's chat!

⏰ Tonight (Friday, June 12th) @ 9:00 PM(mata 3 seat) Local Time
@AmmanuelMekonn1 @Eyuel88
@tonhornofafrica
https://t.co/2eIqvdIQJz

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Thank you elon 🙏

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@BinanceAfrica @blue_king_x @0xNate7

[Binance Africa @BinanceAfrica]

🇪🇹 Ethiopia, this one's for you!

Complete eligible actions on Binance for a chance to win one of three iPhone 17s plus a share of $15,000 in rewards.

The more actions you complete, the more chances you earn.

Join now 👉 https://t.co/yerl2jtsFM

[Ethiopian Blockchain Week @EthioBW]

⚡️EBW x Bitcoin birr⚡️

We are thrilled to announce that we are partnering with Bitcoin Birr for our upcoming event, Ethiopian Blockchain Week 2026!

[Ethiopian Blockchain Week @EthioBW]

BILLIONS WIPED OUT... TRADERS LEFT IN SHOCK AS THE BLOODIEST DUMP STRIKES AGAIN

Biggest privacy token $ZEC crashed over -50% in the last 24 hours, wiping out $5 Billion from its market cap.
The flaw was hidden inside Zcash's Orchard privacy pool since May 2022, remaining undetected for nearly 4 years despite multiple security audits.

Security researcher Taylor Hornby reportedly used Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 AI model to build a working proof-of-concept that successfully generated counterfeit ZEC in local testing on May 29.

Although the bug was officially patched on June 2, the fundamental problem remains. Unlike Bitcoin, where anyone can instantly verify the total supply, Zcash's privacy design makes it completely impossible to audit whether fake coins were secretly minted inside the shielded pool before the fix.

The team denies that any fake ZEC was minted, but traders are panic-selling on the fear alone. Imagine a casino where someone secretly adds extra chips, but because of how the system is built, neither the casino nor the players can tell which chips are real and which are fake. To restore market trust, Shielded Labs is now urgently exploring a proposed Network Upgrade that would allow anyone to verify the integrity of the Zcash supply.

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@Eyuel88 @Redo_Trade @1000x_PCM @tonhornofafrica Congrats G