Your weekly update curated for you to catch you up on emerging market blockchain and crypto news from the last week.
Africa
Celo was the 4th Fastest Growing Blockchain in 2021 (BitKE, 12/25/21)
Africa’s Most Popular Browser, Opera, Integrates Polygon in Race to Expand Web3 Across the Continent and the Globe (BitKE, 12/21/21)
Meet the 4 Africans Overseeing the ₿trust Bitcoin Development Fund by Jay-Z and Twitter CEO (BitKE, 12/22/21)
Asia
China’s state-run news agency to launch NFT collection (Cointelegraph, 12/22/21)
Chinese companies embark on a metaverse trademark race (Cointelegraph, 12/20/21)
Eastern Europe
Turkey’s crypto law is ready for parliament, President Erdoğan confirms (Cointelegraph, 12/24/21)
Households Are Exploiting Cheap Siberian Energy to Mine Bitcoin (Bitcoin Magazine, 12/22/21)
Latin America
AmazonasCoin will switch to DeFi protocol and will have deflation (Blocknews, 12/22/21)
Metaverse: Zro Bank creates an office and Itaú takes on an engagement challenge (Blocknews, 12/23/21)