XRP Healthcare Africa, a subsidiary of XRP Healthcare, has partnered with FasterCapital, a venture capital enterprise overseen by the esteemed financial guru Hesham Zreik, to source capital for the procurement of private medical institutions spanning the African continent.

Zebedee, a crypto gaming and payments app, has said its partnership arrangement with the crypto on and off-ramp platform Bitnob will see African users getting rewarded with satoshis each time they play games or when they listen to podcasts. After accumulating enough satoshis, the users will be able to convert these to their respective countries’ local currencies.

Creative and ambitious entrepreneurs are determining Africa’s future by grabbing blockchain and cryptocurrency opportunities. The new crypto project DPAT, is at the forefront of this digital transformation, providing a platform to support the development of African crypto hubs that will help upcoming generations of African thought leaders to build sustainable and thriving economies. 

Mobile money has been a strong competitor to central bank digital currency (CBDC) in Africa, but many of the continent’s central bankers have greater faith CBDC, according to a Bank for International Settlements (BIS) report published Nov. 24. African central bankers also saw greater utility in CBDC for implementing monetary policy than bankers in other parts of the world, according to the BIS.