Funding
Kaleo Ventures backs Cr3dentials’ decentralized income tool
The capital injection is to help Cr3dentials raise revenue and solidify its upcoming pilot programs.
Jul 24, 2025
Digital trust infrastructure
Digital identity
Digital identity — coverage and analysis.
Digital identity
DR Congo launches blockchain-based platform for diploma verification
The e-Diplôme platform is designed to reduce fraud by helping to verify government-issued diplomas in real-time.
Jul 22, 2025
Litigation
Kenyan court orders Worldcoin to delete all biometric data
Justice Rosen Abili ordered the Sam Altman-founded company to delete all the data it had collected.
May 6, 2025
Digital identity
Tunisia adopts blockchain-based system for verifying credentials
The country joins three other North African countries to adopt the Unified Arab System for Diploma Authenticity Verification
Mar 5, 2025
Regulation
Worldcoin to resume operations as Kenyan police drop investigations
The company has turned its fortunes around despite recommendations of a total shutdown and legal actions against it in Kenya.
Jun 27, 2024
State of fiat
Ethiopia gets $350 million World Bank financing for its digital ID project
$50 million comes as a grant from the World Bank’s International Development Association.
Jan 16, 2024
Regulation
Worldcoin moves to resume operations in Kenya
“Worldcoin is working directly with regulators to meet Kenya’s requirements, particularly as the Assembly considers new regulations,” a source said.
Dec 16, 2023
Digital identity
Kenya government to launch digital identification by December
It is unknown what technology the digital ID project is built on. The previous project, Huduma Namba, was built on blockchain.
Nov 2, 2023
Digital identity
Worldcoin starts paying its orb operators in WLD instead of USDC
The company expects all of its operators to be paid exclusively in WLD in November.
Oct 25, 2023
ANALYSIS
Digital identity
ANALYSISAkowe’s blockchain solution set to transform Africa’s educational sector
Akowe is leveraging blockchain to address the challenges of the safekeeping of academic certificates in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Oct 18, 2023
Regulation
Kenyan parliamentary committee recommends shutdown of Worldcoin
The committee deemed Worldcoin and its partners’ activities criminal and called for legal action against them.
Oct 3, 2023
Regulation
Kenya’s Interior Minister claims the U.S. prevented the arrest of Worldcoin executives
In a conflicting statement, a Worldcoin representative debunked the news, saying no executives were detained in Kenya.
Sep 22, 2023
Digital identity
Republic of Mauritius launches blockchain-based eVerify service
The eVerify service will be used in the education, health care, production, and legal sectors of the country.
Sep 21, 2023
Policy
Kenya’s Interior Minister hints at possible cryptocurrency ban
Kithure said that if the money in crypto trading cannot be traced until it enters a financial institution, he would hesitate to permit its use.
Sep 20, 2023
ANALYSIS
Regulation
ANALYSISWorldcoin denies using free tokens to induce users to sign up
Worldcoin CEO appeared before the Kenyan Parliament to defend the company’s operations and here are key insights from the session.
Sep 8, 2023
Regulation
Trade in cryptocurrency not illegal: CBK Governor
The committee also summoned the CBK governor to explain why the Bank failed to detect the Worldcoin token payments made to Kenyans via M-Pesa.
Sep 7, 2023
Regulation
Worldcoin probe: Journalists denied access to committee meeting in Kenya
Worldcoin’s orb, used to scan people’s eyeballs, was confiscated by the DCI from the operators and is in their custody.
Sep 5, 2023
Digital identity
Worldcoin probe: Over 350,000 Kenyans signed up in the first week, officials reveal
Another contradiction about the project was the storage location of the collected data.
Aug 31, 2023
ANALYSIS
Mariblock Roundtable
ANALYSISWorldcoin controversy: two sides of the ‘coin’
Mariblock hosted a space on X where it entertained arguments for and against the digital ID company, Worldcoin. Here are some key takeaways from the space.
Aug 28, 2023
Regulation
Kenyan parliament forms committee to investigate controversial Worldcoin project
Worldcoin's launch has been met with controversy and is currently under investigation in five major countries.
Aug 28, 2023