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This Week in African Crypto | TawkCrypto Wrap: Feb 20

Here's what you missed 👇🏾

Market holds steady

$BTC (+1.7%)
$ETH (+0.2%)
$SOL (+5.9%) 🔥
$XRP (+4.1%)
$BNB (+1.8%)

See top stories this week 👇🏾🧵

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SARS just introduced new crypto reporting rules 🇿🇦

If you hold or trade crypto in SA, take note:

🟠Sept 2026: Mandatory local reporting
🟠Sept 2027: Auto international data sharing
🟠Exchanges submit XML transaction data
🟠Stricter KYC ahead

Full story
https://t.co/73rpEVNDV3

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Africa just became the 3rd fastest-growing on-chain market in 2025, and now has full ECN-grade trading infrastructure across 26 countries.

Finery Markets + @OVEXIO just made it official.
https://t.co/h6c2vpCMIl

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@ihate1999 @ForbesCrypto Good read

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Airtel Africa is exploring stablecoin integration across 14 markets

If telecom giants embed crypto rails into mobile money, Africa’s next adoption wave could go mainstream fast

Is this Africa’s biggest crypto on-ramp in the making?

Read the full story

https://t.co/prLkALk0Zp

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🟠Bitcoin: store of value or growth asset?

• The honest answer? Both. And it changes how you should be positioned right now.

• We broke it all down
Markets are quiet. Africa is not.

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This Week in African Crypto | TawkCrypto Wrap: Feb 20

Here's what you missed 👇🏾

Market holds steady

$BTC (+1.7%)
$ETH (+0.2%)
$SOL (+5.9%) 🔥
$XRP (+4.1%)
$BNB (+1.8%)

See top stories this week 👇🏾🧵

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🟠Ethiopia becomes the 8th largest Bitcoin miner on earth 🇪🇹

• 2.7% of global hashrate

• $30M/month to Ethiopia Electric Power

• Government now wants 20-30% ownership of mining facilities

• Powered by Africa's largest hydro dam

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Ethiopia is now the 8th largest Bitcoin miner in the world 🇪🇹

2.7% of the entire Bitcoin network hashrate. $30M/month flowing to its electric utility.

And now the government wants a direct 20-30% ownership stake in mining facilities.

Full breakdown 👇🏾
https://t.co/nQabrlss2m

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🟠95% of Nigerians prefer stablecoins over Naira.

🟠80% of Nigerians & South Africans already hold them.

🟠Sending $100 to Mozambique costs $30 in fees.

That’s not a crypto stat. That’s a verdict on a currency.

Full breakdown 👇🏾
https://t.co/XLqNLcejp2

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$btc dropped to $60K and everyone called it a crypto crash.

But here's what the data shows, it moved exactly like high-growth tech stocks. Not a crypto problem. A risk appetite problem.

We broke down what's really happening
https://t.co/soI66Goy9Q

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$205 billion in crypto transactions. 52% YoY growth. 45% of it in stablecoins.

Africa isn't experimenting with crypto anymore.

African merchants are at an inflection point, and the infrastructure is finally catching up.

Here's what's driving it 👇🏾
https://t.co/fpi5XlIwI9

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Nigeria’s crypto market hit $92.1B last year, but much of the value is still flowing to foreign platforms.

Now the FG is proposing a draft VARA framework to coordinate crypto regulation across agencies.

Read the full breakdown on TawkCrypto 👇🏾
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Nigerian crypto exchange @ObiexHQ hits $1B in annual swaps and eyes regional dominance

The bootstrapped platform is expanding to Ghana, South Africa & Kenya

No VC funding. $20B+ cumulative volume.

Full story 👇🏾
https://t.co/s6gNLzS5jQ

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@OzowPay just integrated crypto payments across its platform, powered by @MoneyBadgerPay

South African merchants can now accept Bitcoin Lightning, Luno, VALR & Binance wallet payments with instant ZAR settlement.

Full story 👇
https://t.co/DtMx2rxKDY

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Bank of Ghana launches National Virtual Asset Literacy Initiative (NaVALI), a game-changing crypto education program.

"Laws don't build trust, education does" - Dr. Johnson Asiama, BOG Governor

As Ghana's VASP Act enforcement kicks in, regulators are prioritizing public education over restriction.

Full story 👇🏾

https://t.co/SCASfWGixU

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@paystack's next decade = #STABLECOINS

Stripe's Nigerian fintech giant is finalizing a stablecoin license & launching TSG Labs to build blockchain payment infrastructure across Africa.

With $27T in annual stablecoin volume globally, they're bringing internet-speed money to the continent.

Read the full story 👇🏾
https://t.co/FEb1n7Ilgv

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Crypto cards just flipped P2P stablecoin transfers

New @artemis data👇🏾

🟠106% annual growth → $18B volume 
🟠Africa leading adoption (45% YoY) 
🇳🇬 Nigeria: $22B in stablecoin transactions 
🟠Visa stablecoin settlement: 460% YoY growth

Full story on @TawkCrypto

https://t.co/B1cyESvDyh