Kwame Asante
Covers crypto and mobile money across Sub-Saharan Africa. Reports from Lagos, Nairobi, and Accra on how blockchain intersects with M-Pesa, agent banking networks, and the largest youth population on the planet. Former fintech correspondent for a Pan-African business publication.
Articles by Kwame Asante
Ethereum Built an AI Agent Hotline for Glamsterdam, Then Launched 'Steal My Bitcoin' Anyway
Ethereum researchers have spun up an AI agent message board to help rescue the Glamsterdam fork, borrowing a playbook from the Hugging Face breach. A separate 'Steal My Bitcoin' site is daring attackers to try. Both point at the same thing: human review isn't keeping up.
Metaplanet's $3.4 Billion Bitcoin War Chest Just Cleared Its Shareholder Vote
Shareholders signed off on a condition tied to Metaplanet's $3.4 billion financing, and the company becomes Superplanet with the ticker SUPA once the deal closes in Q4. The real story isn't the name change. It's that the treasury-company trade is now a Wall Street product, and that tells you exactly which capital markets can play this game and which ones still can't.
