{"id":9003,"date":"2022-03-25T18:25:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T18:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/?p=9003"},"modified":"2024-07-13T18:33:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T18:33:07","slug":"consensus-magazine-web-3-needs-africa-not-the-other-way-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/consensus-magazine-web-3-needs-africa-not-the-other-way-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Consensus Magazine: Web 3 Needs Africa, Not the Other Way Around","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO and founder of AZA Finance, argues that Africa plays a crucial role in the evolution of cryptocurrency and Web 3 technologies. The continent has shown remarkable growth in crypto adoption, with significant increases in cryptocurrency holdings and payments. Africa&#8217;s early embrace of mobile money, exemplified by the success of M-Pesa, highlights its readiness to adopt new financial technologies. Rossiello emphasizes that while Africa benefits from crypto, the global crypto ecosystem also needs Africa&#8217;s enthusiastic adoption to thrive. She critiques the outdated mindsets of international leaders who overlook Africa&#8217;s potential, urging the crypto world to recognize and support Africa&#8217;s capacity for innovation and economic growth. Read it <a class=\"waffle-rich-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/layer2\/2022\/03\/25\/web-3-needs-africa-not-the-other-way-around\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO and founder of AZA Finance, argues that Africa plays a crucial role in the evolution of cryptocurrency and Web 3 technologies. The continent has shown remarkable growth in crypto adoption, with significant increases in cryptocurrency holdings and payments. Africa&#8217;s early embrace of mobile money, exemplified by the success of M-Pesa, highlights its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":4,"featured_media":9004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[188,473,586,910,583,806,625,400,678,707,911,403,709,244,441,909],"class_list":["post-9003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aza-news","tag-africa","tag-aza-finance","tag-blockchain","tag-crypto-adoption","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-digital-assets","tag-economic-growth","tag-elizabeth-rossiello","tag-financial-infrastructure","tag-financial-technology","tag-global-crypto-ecosystem","tag-innovation","tag-m-pesa","tag-mobile-money","tag-remittances","tag-web-3"],"acf":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azafinance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}