Strike has launched a new Bitcoin-backed loan product that removes margin calls and price-triggered liquidations entirely. No matter how far Bitcoin falls, a borrower’s collateral stays put. The trade-off is a higher interest rate, a shorter term, and strict payment requirements.
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Bitcoin’s most contentious governance battle of 2026 is heading toward a quiet defeat. Miner signaling for BIP-110 has dropped to 0%, prominent Bitcoin voices have publicly opposed it, and no major mining pool has backed it with the August deadline just weeks away.
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Nigerian fintech Busha has launched Bitcoin-backed loans, letting users borrow up to 50% of their Bitcoin holdings in Naira at 2% monthly interest without selling their position. It is the first locally built Bitcoin collateral lending product for Nigerian retail users.
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Radar Chat is a new encrypted messaging app that lets users send Bitcoin over the Lightning Network inside any conversation, without switching apps, without copying wallet addresses, and without giving up custody of their funds.
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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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