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Canva launches its South African office in Johannesburg, supporting creators, SMEs, and students through local payments and education initiatives.

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DappRadar, one of the most widely used Web3 analytics platforms, has shut down after seven years, citing a financially unsustainable market environment. The closure affects over 1 million monthly users, developers, journalists, and researchers who relied on the platform’s cross-chain data.

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Luno and Discovery Bank partner to bring in-app crypto trading to South Africans, marking the first institutional banking integration for digital assets in SA.

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South Africa’s online retail market surged to R71 billion in 2023, reflecting a 29% increase from 2022. With momentum building, it’s expected to break the R100 billion mark by 2026, according to the Online Retail in South Africa 2024 report.

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TRON isn’t just surviving the crypto market’s choppy waters, it’s attempting to rewrite the very narrative of what a blockchain network can become. Part fintech backbone, part space-age spectacle, part Wall Street experiment, TRON’s evolving strategy reveals both the promise and paradox of crypto’s mainstream ambitions.

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In a crypto landscape increasingly dominated by large-cap narratives and macro market uncertainty, smaller Layer 1 chains face the daunting task of staying relevant. Klever Coin (KLV), a blockchain ecosystem built on deflationary mechanics and a security-first ethos, is attempting just that.

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In the ever-expanding galaxy of Web3 wallets, NEAR Mobile is stepping out with a bold claim: it doesn’t just want to join the party, it wants to redefine how mainstream users interact with the blockchain. At the center of this mission is NPro, a utility token designed to power the wallet’s ecosystem.

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The AI being built today by companies like Google, Meta, and OpenAI is designed to serve its corporate owners, not the users. But what if the future wasn’t centralized? What if user-owned AI became the standard?

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When you think of crypto-backed mortgages, Bitcoin and blockchain aren’t the first things that come to mind. But that may be changing. In a surprising turn, the FHFA is considering whether Bitcoin as mortgage collateral might have a future in mainstream lending—signaling a new phase in U.S.

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We’re in an era where AI is no longer confined to labs or speculative fiction — it’s embedded into our workflows, inboxes, calendars, and increasingly, our browsers. Yet the latest wave of intelligent assistants isn’t just automating tasks; it’s redefining the entire paradigm of human-computer interaction.

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