📢𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐖𝐞𝐛3 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 2025 𝐢𝐬 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 We are excited the unveil the first-ever Kenya Web3 Landscape Report, in collaboration with our knowledge partners @Web3Clubs, and @vaspchamber. As the inaugural edition, this report offers a comprehensive analysis of Kenya's Web3 ecosystem, exploring the growth of its developer community, evolving funding landscape, and regulatory developments shaping innovation across the country. The report covers 🔎: 1️⃣ Startups & Investment Landscape – A deep dive into funding trends and Kenya’s growing web3 startup ecosystem 2️⃣ Developer Ecosystem – Kenya's role as one of the leading hub for web3 talent Africa 3️⃣ Regulatory, Tax & Policy – The evolving policy landscape and what it means for innovation, builders, and investors. A Snapshot of Key Insights 🧵:

UPI. ULI. Now UMI. UPI launched in 2016 and changed how India pays. Today, nearly 555 million people use it, with over 24.5 billion transactions every month. ULI followed, piloted in 2023, named the Unified Lending Interface in 2024, targeting lending. It brings data from governments, banks and credit bureaus together, designed to cut loan assessment from weeks to minutes. Now comes the least understood, and potentially biggest, piece. In October 2025, RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra unveiled the Unified Markets Interface (UMI) at Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai. UMI is designed to tokenise financial assets and settle them using wholesale CBDC, bringing the asset and central bank money onto the same rails. Its first pilot focused on tokenised Certificates of Deposit, with the Governor calling the results encouraging. Put the three together and the direction is clear: India has built the rails for how money moves, how credit reaches people, and now how assets are issued, owned and settled. The IBW Institutional Forum brings the people building this next layer of financial infrastructure into one room. 1-2 November. Mumbai.

Binance returns as Title Sponsor for India Blockchain Week Conference 2026. The exchange closed H1 2026 with 300 million registered users globally, close to 43% of everyone holding crypto today, and has processed over $156 trillion in cumulative trading volume since it launched nine years ago. This year, it pushed further into stocks, ETFs, and tokenized securities, building toward what it calls a ‘financial super app’. That scale will be part of IBW Conference for a second year, as @BinanceForIN joins builders, founders, and policymakers shaping the future of India's Web3 ecosystem. 1-2 November. Mumbai.

60 days to IBW2026. Enough time to plan how you land your next big thing this November. Enough time to start reaching out to the people you want to meet in Mumbai. Enough time to show up at India Blockchain Week.

Last June, we brought founders from across Africa to Nairobi for the inaugural Hashed Vibe Haus – Africa Edition, powered by @tether @Tether_Africa For five days, Nairobi became a space for these founders building at the intersection of stablecoins, and AI/agentic payments, to connect, exchange ideas, learn from experienced ecosystem leaders, and think deeply about what they’re building next. But we didn’t just want to hear about their products. We wanted to hear their stories. What inspired them to start? What problems are they solving? What does building from Africa look like today? What have they learned along the way? So, throughout the residency, we sat down with each founder for candid conversations about their journeys, their companies, and their experience at Vibe Haus Nairobi. 🎥 Hear from the founders who joined us in Nairobi.

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India Blockchain Week Conference 2026. 1-2 November, Mumbai. For three editions IBW Conference is where India's Web3 ecosystem came together. This year it goes further. IBW2026 launches two new forums. Read the full article to know more : business-standard.com/conten…

Tokenised US Treasuries have crossed $15 billion. Where does India fit in? BlackRock launched BUIDL, its tokenised Treasury fund, in March 2024. It now holds roughly $2.7 billion. The wider tokenised US Treasury market has since passed $15 billion. These are regulated funds holding real government debt, issued on-chain and used for yield and collateral. India's markets run on the same class of instruments that tokenisation has already moved on-chain elsewhere: G-Secs, corporate bonds, mutual fund units. The open question is whether those instruments can be tokenised here, and what has to change in market structure and regulation for that to work. That is what the tokenisation session at the IBW Institutional Forum will test.

🌃 Afterhours | Hashed Vibe Haus Nairobi To wrap up Hashed Vibe Haus Nairobi, powered by @tether, @Tether_Africa, we brought together founders, operators, and ecosystem leaders for Afterhours - an evening of conversations, new connections, and networking sessions. After a week of sessions and workshops, the evening created space for the cohort to continue conversations beyond the structured program, strengthen relationships across the ecosystem, and make new connections. A few moments from the evening. 🎥👇

🏡 Day 5 at Hashed Vibe Haus Nairobi The final day of the residency featured a GTM and distribution masterclass with Peter Chege Mureu, Africa Business Development Lead at @binance. Drawing from his experience across fintech, payments, and digital assets, Peter shared practical perspectives on product-market fit, customer acquisition, partnerships, and scaling across African markets. The session concluded with one-on-one discussions, where founders received direct feedback on their GTM strategies and distribution plans. Moments from Peter's Session. 🎥👇

🏡 Day 3 at Hashed Vibe Haus Nairobi The day opened with a workshop on QVAC, led by @decentraldev_ from @tether, introducing founders to Tether's decentralized AI framework and its vision for private, local, and permissionless AI. Founders joined a roundtable session with @GMosomi sharing product updates, discussing challenges, and receiving practical feedback through group discussions and one-on-one sessions. The day wrapped up with a session led by @yosephayele, and the @lavavc_ team, where founders openly discussed fundraising challenges, asked candid questions, explored investor expectations for Africa's evolving stablecoin landscape, and unpacked what it takes to build venture-backable companies in emerging markets. Here's a glimpse into Day 3. 🎥👇