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🟠 M-Pesa meets blockchain

Plus: 🇬🇭 Ghana brings crypto into its regulatory perimeter with a new VASP law; 🇿🇦 South Africa’s central bank says CBDCs matter — just not right now
Dec 26, 2025

Plus: 🇬🇭 Ghana brings crypto into its regulatory perimeter with a new VASP law; 🇿🇦 South Africa’s central bank says CBDCs matter — just not right now

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.

The participants built USDC-enabled payment tools that use M-PESA and USSD as on- and off-ramp rails.