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Six years ago today, Celo mainnet launched on Earth Day! 🥳 The @Ethereum Layer 2 built for the real world has processed 1.27B+ transactions, bringing fast, low-cost stablecoin txs to 600K+ global users every day What does this look like in practice? Here's a better look ↓

Excited to partner on this BBCLUB x Avalanche Team1 Africa x Tippikl Labs A hands-on session focused on building and deploying smart contracts on-chain. Ghana, let’s build 🔥

BB_CLUB is excited to partner with @AvaxAfrica & @TippiklLabs for a hands-on Web3 workshop happening in Ghana. If you're looking to get practical experience building and deploying smart contracts on-chain, this is one you don’t want to miss. Let’s build together 🦾

Perfect for beginners & builders ready to level up 💻🔥 📍 Volta (VicCharles Hotel, Opp. Ho Technical University, Ghana) ⏰ 9AM – 2PM 🎟️ luma.com/7d3336iw Don’t miss out

Build On-Chain with Avalanche is happening April 29! Hosted by BBCLUB x @AvaxTeam1 Ghana x @TippiklLabs Expect: ⚡ Smart contract development ⚡ On-chain deployment ⚡ Hands-on Web3 building

Day 1 in Hong Kong 🇭🇰 Hit the Hong Kong Web3 Festival during the day. The infrastructure here is not theoretical. Then ETH HK Community Hub grand opening. Asia's first physical Ethereum hub. Vitalik and Aya in the room. Walked in skeptical. Walked out convinced. Day 2 loading... we're sailing 🚢

Africa leads the world in stablecoin ownership at 79%. But the real story is what's happening to the cost of actually using them. Q1 2026 data just dropped. East Africa moved fast: 🇰🇪 Kenya: -81% in FX pricing gap 🇹🇿 Tanzania: -80% 🇷🇼 Rwanda: -60% The driver? More providers entered those corridors. Competition showed up and costs collapsed. Now look at the other side. Ghana is still sitting at 616 bps. Only 2 providers quoting. Nigeria was at 335 bps in January, dropped to 142 bps by March because one new provider walked in the door in February. One provider. 193 bps dropped. $200B+ moved on-chain across Sub-Saharan Africa in the last 12 months. The volume is there. The demand is there. The bottleneck is access. More providers, more competition, lower costs. Africa doesn't have a crypto problem. It has an infrastructure density problem.

Celo is one year into its Ethereum L2 migration. Here's what actually happened: > Became the #1 Ethereum L2 by daily active users (ahead of Base, Arbitrum, Optimism). > @Grayscale adds CELO to Q2 Assets Under Consideration(April 2026) > 14 million verified phone numbers registered on-chain. > 346 million+ stablecoin transactions in 2025 alone (+52% YoY). > Over 2.09M Daily Active Addresses(March 2026). > @minipay accounts for 45% of all transactions and 93% of all stablecoin flow. Phone-number onboarding, ERC-20 gas payments, payments-first mobile UX. > 50M transactions in March 2026(March 2025, ~24M TXs, >100% growth) > #1 transport layer for @tether with 5M weekly users, ~90% marketshare on XAUt0. > USAT stablecoin launch on Celo with Google Cloud & MiniPay integration. > @Uniswap v4, Morpho, Velodrome, Virtuals all deployed in year one. > 300,000 Daily Verified Active Addresses (DVAA). > Nearly 4,000 AI agents registered on-chain under ERC-8004. > The Jello Hardfork brought ZK fault-proofs to mainnet via @Optimism Succinct Lite. > Sub-$0.0005 median fees. @Celo is becoming a settlement layer for machine-to-machine commerce & real world payments and it kept everything that made it worth migrating: Fee abstraction, mobile-first architecture, local currency stablecoins as native assets.

🌍 Africa Web3 & Blockchain Digest | April 5–11, 2026 GM GM everyone! Another week, another set of moves on the continent 🧵👇 1.🇳🇬 SMC DAO acquired Nigerian crypto startup Bread Africa in an all-cash six-figure deal. Bread Africa allows users to convert crypto to naira instantly no sign-ups, no KYC, no friction. Over $1.8M in total payment volume processed before the sale. The platform is being rebranded to "Swap with Bread" with upcoming features including fiat-to-crypto, crypto-to-crypto & airtime-to-crypto swaps 👀 2.🌍 Ripple dropped a major report this week Africa's crypto adoption jumped 52% year-on-year with $205B in on-chain value. Nigeria alone accounted for $92B of that total. 8 African nations now have crypto-specific regulations in place. The continent is not playing 🌍 3.🇰🇪 Today is the last day to submit your views on Kenya's draft VASP Regulations 2026. Public comment closes April 10. If you're building or operating in Kenya's crypto space this is your window to shape the rules ⏰ 4.🇳🇬 Monad Blitz hit Lagos today a 1-day IRL hackathon brought to you by @web3afrika x @monad Foundation. The night before, @web3afrika hosted an exclusive Founder Mixer Dinner bringing together 50 of Lagos's top founders, builders & investors. Monad is a high-performance parallel EVM blockchain 10,000 TPS, sub-second finality. The builders showed up 🛠️ That's your Africa Web3 week 🌍 Did I miss anything? Drop it in the replies 👇 Follow @africanbuilder_ & RT the first tweet to put your people on 🙏

Anthropic built an AI that found a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD for under $50. It also found flaws in the cryptography libraries behind TLS, SSH, and AES-GCM.Same protocols protecting DeFi infrastructure. Most protocols in never even get one audit. The security game just changed.

Time to create some in person Tippikl moments.

@college_xyz @synthesis_md @internatxyz Awesome!

We're sponsoring a student track for @synthesis_md 5 student submissions will receive a travel grant to a eth conference of their choice. And the one to decide will be our very own AI agent @internatxyz register → synthesis.md

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5+ years in blockchain space and this is my first time receiving a citation of honour. Grateful to Lancaster University Ghana and the Lancaster Blockchain Community for this. Speaking to students about blockchain and helping them see the possibilities is something I never take for granted. Thank you for this and Lets keep Building

@sodofi_ lets connect!

what are the best builder communities i should be talking to? would love to collab

🌍 Africa Web3 & Blockchain News this Week.. Fresh week, fresh moves. Here's what you need to know 👇🧵 🇬🇭 @blockchain launches in Ghana (March 9)After 700% growth in Nigeria, officially expanded into Ghana already had 140% organic user growth before launch. 🇬🇭 2. Ghana SEC admits 11 firms into crypto regulatory sandbox 12-month pilot under VASP Act 2025. Firms include Blu Penguin, HanyPay, Goldbod, Africoin, Hyro Exchange, KoinKoin, Whitebits, Vaulta, Xchain and more. 🇪🇹 3. Ethiopia clamps down on P2P crypto transactions The National Bank of Ethiopia said crypto regulations are on the way, but peer-to-peer transactions paired with the birr are outlawed in the meantime. Mariblock A significant crackdown in one of Africa's top Bitcoin mining nations. 🇳🇬 4. TechNova Summit - Abakaliki, Nigeria (March 13–14)The TechNova Summit, held at the Ecumenical Centre in Abakaliki, brought together students, founders, investors and ecosystem players to explore Web3, AI, fintech and innovation across Africa. The TechNova Summit Born in Southeast Nigeria with a continental vision.

Focus areas: → Cross-border transfers → B2B payments → Global payouts & settlement For context: stablecoin volumes hit $27.6T in 2025 — surpassing Mastercard + Visa's combined traditional networks. TradFi isn't watching crypto anymore. It's joining it.

🚨 HUGE: Mastercard just launched a Crypto Partner Program with 85+ companies. Binance. PayPal. Ripple. Circle. Gemini. Solana. Polygon. Kraken. OKX. The goal: plug on-chain payments directly into global payment rails used by banks & merchants in 200+ countries.