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CHRISTO DE WIT: Get with the blockchain

Without clear regulatory frameworks, South Africa risks falling behind in the tokenisation race

R903,000 gone in 10 minutes: Small business takes on Standard Bank

R903,000 alleged cyberheist case heads to the high court

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Behind the ructions at Africa’s first Bitcoin treasury firm 

Regulator hits founders with thumping sanctions and debars them for 20-years

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Can Africa Bitcoin Corp buck the bitcoin treasury meltdown? 

Africa Bitcoin Corp plans a London listing to use crypto collateral to fund low-cost SME loans

Kastelos in the sand: The DA’s Burke dilemma

Inside the party’s Burke bind

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CHRISTO DE WIT: The lawmaking process that wasn’t

Exchange control should be modernised, but not like this

The bitcoin holy wars

Why decentralised governance makes compromise so elusive

CHRISTO DE WIT: Cash is king for crooks

Despite common misconceptions, cash remains the preferred tool for criminals, not cryptocurrency.

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Africa is blockchain’s most mispriced market

Africa is generating record blockchain deal activity, but its share of global funding has almost halved

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The crypto theft that changed everything

A six-month North Korean con drained $285m from Drift in 12 minutes, exposing DeFi’s central myth: that technology can eliminate trust

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What Africa’s stablecoin boom means for its financial system

Africa leads the world in stablecoin ownership. The question is whether banks and regulators can keep pace with what is already happening

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When agentic AI goes rogue with crypto

An Alibaba AI agent used company servers to mine crypto. The problem is, no-one told it to. AI spending is now live, and nobody’s quite in charge

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Why AI and crypto are finally getting married

AI and crypto have been solving different problems. Now they’re solving each other’s – and the internet will never be the same

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How AI and crypto will break the internet’s payment model

OpenAI’s Instant Checkout and Coinbase’s x402 point to a new web: frictionless micropayments replacing surveillance, subscriptions and ad-driven models

From cash to crypto: inside South Africa’s digital leap

South Africa’s payment landscape has moved from cash and early electronic systems to advanced fintech and blockchain innovation. It’s a shift towards financial freedom, inclusion…

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Your crypto, your safety: securing Africa’s financial future

Anti-money-laundering and cybersecurity frameworks are critical to the continent’s crypto future – and central to the credibility of the entire crypto ecosystem.

Mainstreaming crypto: Binance boosts digital payments

Binance Pay has gone live at tens of thousands of South African merchants – and to mark the rollout, it’s offering 50% cash back on transactions at participating merchants.

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How Binance opens access to the crypto economy

Binance is advancing crypto payments in South Africa with seamless fiat integration. By allowing the smooth conversion of rands into crypto and back, it’s making digital assets…

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Binance Pay powers a new era of customer spending

The expansion of the borderless payment platform now allows South Africans to pay for goods and services in crypto – just as easily as using cards or EFTs.

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Filling the savings hole

Lower rates mean shrinking savings returns. Diversifying is no longer optional – and for some South Africans, crypto could be part of the solution