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Blockchain and Decentralized Finance's Impact on Emerging and Frontier Markets
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Akin Sawyerr is the co-founder of RocRemit, a blockchain remittance company, a director of Splash Mobile Money, a mobile payments company in Sierra Leone and the Africa Lead for Decred an open-source, Bitcoin fork that places emphasis on development funding, on-chain governance, and consensus mechanisms. Akin is a long time executive and entrepreneur operating in mobile money, remittances, and payments in sub Saharan Africa.
On this episode you'll learn:
- What use cases within Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is Akin most excited for and why? [3:20]
- What aspect of DeFi does Akin think will have the biggest impact across Africa? [10:48]
- What are the best assets to peg a stablecoin's value to?[14:05]
105 episodes
Archived series ("Inactive feed" status)
When? This feed was archived on August 27, 2021 11:07 (). Last successful fetch was on July 13, 2021 21:27 ()
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Manage episode 242265841 series 2455855
Akin Sawyerr is the co-founder of RocRemit, a blockchain remittance company, a director of Splash Mobile Money, a mobile payments company in Sierra Leone and the Africa Lead for Decred an open-source, Bitcoin fork that places emphasis on development funding, on-chain governance, and consensus mechanisms. Akin is a long time executive and entrepreneur operating in mobile money, remittances, and payments in sub Saharan Africa.
On this episode you'll learn:
- What use cases within Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is Akin most excited for and why? [3:20]
- What aspect of DeFi does Akin think will have the biggest impact across Africa? [10:48]
- What are the best assets to peg a stablecoin's value to?[14:05]
105 episodes
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