Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission has admitted nine companies into its Accelerated Regulatory Incubation Programme in 48 hours, the largest expansion of its digital asset sandbox since the programme launched, as the country moves to bring its $92 billion annual market under formal oversight.
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On June 30, 2026, Dathon Ohm, the author of BIP-110, announced that the proposal has been advanced to Complete status,
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Lightning Labs has released Taproot Assets v0.8 alongside the first public release of the Taproot Assets SDK, a client library designed to make building stablecoin applications on Bitcoin significantly easier. USDT is now live on Lightning via Taproot Assets.
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Cashu developers are working on integrating Payjoin into the Cashu Development Kit, a move that would bring on-chain privacy directly into Bitcoin-backed ecash transactions and close a significant gap in how ecash mints handle coin origins.
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BTCPay Server has released version 2.4.0, bringing passwordless passkey login, a guided multisig wallet setup flow, Lightspeed and Jumpseller merchant integrations, and a rebuilt translation system that makes the platform more accessible across languages.
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From grassroots circular economies in Kibera to back-to-back Bitcoin conferences in Nairobi, Kenya is no longer debating Bitcoin adoption. It is living it. Here is what two weeks in June 2026 revealed about where Africa’s most advanced Bitcoin economy actually stands.
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Bitcoin++ Nairobi concluded its first-ever African edition this week with three days of deep protocol sessions, a Bitcoin glossary translation sprint, a hackathon won by Senegalese builder Nourou, and an immediate confirmation that the conference is returning to Nairobi in October 2027.
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Theophilus Isah trained as a biochemist, taught himself to code, and walked away from a hackathon loss to build MavaPay, one of the few Bitcoin Lightning off-ramps from Africa’s 2023 builder cohort still standing. He explains why Bitcoin, not the banking system, is the part that actually works.
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African families already lose close to nine billion dollars a year in remittance fees, from the diaspora and from within the continent itself. A new US federal tax just added to that burden. The case for Bitcoin’s Lightning Network as the alternative rail has never been clearer.
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Africa Free Routing has announced its next Lightning Developer Bootcamp, taking place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from July 27–31, 2026, bringing hands-on Bitcoin and Lightning Network training to East Africa’s largest tech hub.
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