Tech Breakthroughs
COMMUNITY
The Dada Devs Nostr app Resilience placed second at Hack4Freedom, giving gender based violence survivors a private way to seek counseling.
EDUCATION
My First Bitcoin has announced major updates to its open-source Bitcoin education tools, retiring its old learning management system and
DEVELOPMENT
From September 22 to October 4, 2026, 55 women gathered in Nairobi for the biggest Hack4Freedom cohort to date. Over
DEVELOPMENT
The rise of AI coding agents is making it faster and cheaper to build Bitcoin applications, opening new opportunities for
COMMUNITY
Hack4Freedom Nairobi 2026 wraps up. Anza wins 1st place as Dada Devs celebrates African women building with Bitcoin, Lightning, and Nostr.
ADOPTION
Lipa, a HakiFedha project, is an open directory of tools that help people across Sub-Saharan Africa spend Bitcoin or convert it into mobile money, bank...
ADOPTION
South Africa-based nonprofit Exonumia Africa has released an alpha of Mantra, an end-to-end encrypted, Nostr-based tool that lets translation groups approve Bitcoin literature with threshold...
AFRICAN BITCOINERS
Bitcoin infrastructure update: Fedimint releases v0.12.0 and Let Africa Build rebrands as a venture engine for African founders.
DEVELOPMENT
On July 28, 2026, Bitcoin developer Calle (@callebtc) posted a single line on X that lit up the Bitcoin world.
DEVELOPMENT
Building with Bitcoin on Lightning just got dramatically simpler. On July 21, 2026, Lightning Labs announced the alpha release of