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The KoinKoin app went live in Nigeria on 1 October 2026: Independence Day, which KoinKoin is marking as Nigerians’ Financial Independence Day.
KoinKoin launched its digital asset exchange app in Nigeria on 1 October 2026, Nigeria’s Independence Day, at an event in Lagos. Customers can fund their accounts in naira by bank transfer or USSD, trade on the spot market and use KoinKoin’s predictive markets.
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BD Weekender covers the Independence Day launch in Lagos: spot trading, predictive markets, naira funding by bank transfer and USSD, and plans for Ghana.
Reports remarks by founder and CEO Ola Atose at the Lagos app launch on government engagement with the crypto industry, KoinKoin’s regulatory progress and the coming Ghana launch.
Reports IMF estimates of about $21 billion in annual crypto transactions in Ghana and names KoinKoin among the firms testing exchange services in the SEC Ghana virtual asset sandbox.
Lists all 14 participants in SEC Nigeria’s ARIP, including KoinKoin Global Network Limited among the July admissions.
Analysis of the KuCoin Institutional liquidity deal as a model that pairs local compliance with global liquidity, and the questions it raises.
Reports the Crypto-as-a-Service liquidity collaboration with KuCoin Institutional and KoinKoin’s regulatory standing in Nigeria and Ghana.
KuCoin Institutional becomes a core liquidity provider to KoinKoin through its Crypto-as-a-Service (CaaS) offering.
Lists KoinKoin among the firms in SEC Nigeria’s ARIP testing phase.
Reports the virtual asset firms granted Approval-in-Principle under SEC Nigeria’s ARIP, with KoinKoin first in the headline.
Official announcements from KoinKoin, with links to the regulator and partner sources.
The KoinKoin app went live in Nigeria on 1 October 2026: Independence Day, which KoinKoin is marking as Nigerians’ Financial Independence Day.
KoinKoin launched its digital asset exchange app in Nigeria on 1 October 2026, Nigeria’s Independence Day, at an event in Lagos. Customers can fund their accounts in naira by bank transfer or USSD, trade on the spot market and use KoinKoin’s predictive markets.
Liquidity on the exchange is supported by KoinKoin’s collaboration with KuCoin Institutional, announced in August 2026.
The launch follows a year of regulatory milestones: KoinKoin was admitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission Ghana’s virtual asset regulatory sandbox (Cohort 1), is one of six firms in the Central Bank of Nigeria’s AML/CFT/CPF supervision pilot for virtual asset service providers, and received Approval-in-Principle under the SEC Nigeria Accelerated Regulatory Incubation Programme (ARIP).
A launch in Ghana is planned to follow.
KuCoin Institutional becomes a core liquidity provider to KoinKoin through its Crypto-as-a-Service (CaaS) offering.
KoinKoin and KuCoin Institutional announced on 12 August 2026 that KuCoin Institutional will act as a core liquidity provider to KoinKoin through its Crypto-as-a-Service (CaaS) offering.
The collaboration pairs KoinKoin’s local regulatory engagement, customer onboarding and local payment methods with KuCoin Institutional’s global liquidity.
KuCoin’s announcement cites KoinKoin’s Approval-in-Principle under the SEC Nigeria Accelerated Regulatory Incubation Programme (ARIP), its place in the Central Bank of Nigeria’s AML/CFT/CPF supervision pilot for virtual asset service providers, and its admission to the Securities and Exchange Commission Ghana’s virtual asset regulatory sandbox (Cohort 1).
KoinKoin Global Network Ltd has received Approval-in-Principle under the SEC Nigeria Accelerated Regulatory Incubation Programme (ARIP).
The Securities and Exchange Commission Nigeria announced on 2 July 2026 that it had cleared seven fintech firms, including KoinKoin Global Network Limited, for admission into the Accelerated Regulatory Incubation Programme (ARIP).
Approval-in-Principle is not a final licence. It admits a firm to the Commission’s supervised incubation programme while it works towards full registration.
By August 2026 the programme had grown to 14 participants.
KoinKoin is one of six firms in the Central Bank of Nigeria’s AML/CFT/CPF supervision pilot for virtual asset service providers.
The Central Bank of Nigeria announced the pilot on 31 March 2026, naming cNGN, Flutterwave, Juicyway, KoinKoin, KuCoin and Paystack as the participating firms.
The pilot tests how the Central Bank supervises virtual asset service providers for anti-money laundering, countering the financing of terrorism and countering proliferation financing (AML/CFT/CPF).
KoinKoin has been admitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission Ghana’s virtual asset regulatory sandbox (Cohort 1).
The Securities and Exchange Commission Ghana named the first cohort of 11 virtual asset service providers on 10 March 2026, in press release SEC/PR/001/03/2026. KoinKoin is one of them.
Firms in the sandbox test their products for 12 months under the Commission’s oversight, under Ghana’s virtual asset law (Act 1154). After six months, firms that are ready for the market may move on to activity-based licensing.
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BD Weekender covers the Independence Day launch in Lagos: spot trading, predictive markets, naira funding by bank transfer and USSD, and plans for Ghana.
Reports remarks by founder and CEO Ola Atose at the Lagos app launch on government engagement with the crypto industry, KoinKoin’s regulatory progress and the coming Ghana launch.
Reports IMF estimates of about $21 billion in annual crypto transactions in Ghana and names KoinKoin among the firms testing exchange services in the SEC Ghana virtual asset sandbox.
Lists all 14 participants in SEC Nigeria’s ARIP, including KoinKoin Global Network Limited among the July admissions.
Analysis of the KuCoin Institutional liquidity deal as a model that pairs local compliance with global liquidity, and the questions it raises.
Reports the Crypto-as-a-Service liquidity collaboration with KuCoin Institutional and KoinKoin’s regulatory standing in Nigeria and Ghana.
Lists KoinKoin among the firms in SEC Nigeria’s ARIP testing phase.
Reports the virtual asset firms granted Approval-in-Principle under SEC Nigeria’s ARIP, with KoinKoin first in the headline.
Covers the ARIP Approvals-in-Principle and explains that they are a step towards full registration, not operating licences.
Reports SEC Nigeria’s ARIP admissions, listing KoinKoin Global Network Limited.
Mimi Kufuor, Global COO of KoinKoin, talks to host Terser Adamu about cross-border payments and trade in Africa, the role of stablecoins, and working with regulators as digital asset frameworks develop.
Law-firm note on the CBN supervision pilot, naming KoinKoin among the six participating firms.
Mimi Kufuor, Head of KoinKoin Ghana, on money confidence, stablecoins and digital asset frameworks.
Analysis of the CBN pilot, describing KoinKoin as a crypto-to-fiat platform that facilitates remittances.
Client alert naming KoinKoin among the six virtual asset service providers in the CBN pilot.
Reports the CBN’s 31 March announcement naming six virtual asset service providers, KoinKoin among them.
Lists the six participants in the CBN supervision pilot, including KoinKoin.
Frames the CBN pilot as a new supervisory test after Nigeria’s exit from the FATF grey list; KoinKoin is one of the six firms involved.
Reports the CBN statement naming cNGN, Flutterwave, Juicyway, KoinKoin, KuCoin and Paystack as the first pilot cohort.
Explainer on Ghana’s first virtual asset sandbox, listing KoinKoin among the 11 firms.
Syndicated report on the SEC Ghana sandbox cohort, naming KoinKoin.
Reports Ghana’s first virtual asset sandbox cohort; KoinKoin is one of the 11 firms named.
Reports the 11 firms entering the SEC Ghana sandbox, KoinKoin among them.
Covers the SEC Ghana sandbox cohort, including KoinKoin, with a focus on GoldBod’s gold tokenisation pilot.
Reports SEC Ghana’s admission of 11 virtual asset service providers, naming KoinKoin among them.
Reports the 11-firm SEC Ghana sandbox cohort, including KoinKoin, testing products for 12 months under supervision.
Contributor Tonya M. Evans cites Mimi Kufuor’s questions on licensing, local partnerships and data sovereignty in Ghana’s new framework.
A long-form conversation with Mimi Kufuor on how digital assets are developing across Africa.
Profile of Mimi Kufuor’s move from banking to fintech, and her views on stablecoins and Ghana’s framework.
Mimi Kufuor on her career path, early crypto adoption and Ghana’s new regulatory framework.
Coverage of KoinKoin’s 2022 retail app launch and its focus on cross-border remittance.
Coverage of KoinKoin’s 2022 retail exchange app launch.
Coverage of KoinKoin’s 2022 retail exchange app launch.
KoinKoin’s retail app launch with local payment methods, two-factor authentication and a referral scheme, with comments from Ola Atose.
Ola Atose on African businesses using stablecoins for inflation protection and cross-border settlement.
Ola Atose’s “Meet the CEO” interview at Open Banking Expo UK on remittances, stablecoins and educating African businesses.
Reports KoinKoin’s plans to double its team across Nigeria and Ghana.
Ola Atose backs KYC-based regulation of crypto in Nigeria.
Sector news Regulation, markets and policy in digital assets across Africa and around the world, from other publishers. These stories are not about KoinKoin.
United States: the Commodity Futures Trading Commission proposed bringing event contracts on sports, politics, cultural and weather-related events under its swaps rules, with a 30-day comment period, and issued an interim rule keeping casino-style gambling outside the definition. Several states dispute its authority over these contracts in court.
United Kingdom: the government sanctioned three crypto platforms and two payment providers that it suspects of helping Russian entities evade financial sanctions.
Thailand: the Securities and Exchange Commission issued rules for crypto exchange-traded funds, due to take effect on 16 October and covering only bitcoin and ether at first.
France: the National Assembly’s Finance Committee approved amendments to the 2027 budget bill that would tax conversions of crypto into fiat-pegged stablecoins from 1 January 2027. The full Assembly has yet to examine the bill.
United States: JPMorgan analysts estimate that about $50 billion has flowed into digital assets so far this year, roughly half of last year’s pace, with flows into exchange-traded funds rising in the third quarter.
Europe: the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) told national regulators that authorised crypto platforms should stop offering stablecoins that do not meet the EU’s MiCA rules, with customers’ remaining holdings to be resolved within three months.
The Bank of Ghana has set up a Virtual Assets Department but has not yet opened licence applications; full operation of the law is expected in 2027.
Germany: the financial regulator BaFin refused an application by futurum bank, a subsidiary of Bitcoin Group SE, for authorisation as a crypto-asset service provider under the EU’s MiCA rules. Trading on its Bitcoin.de marketplace remains largely suspended while the company reviews the decision.
At its second Regulator/FinTech Clinic in Abuja, SEC Nigeria told fintech and digital asset operators that it wants clear routes into the market and urged them to comply with the Investments and Securities Act 2025.
United Arab Emirates: Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) issued a circular on 6 October setting out what independent audits of client reserve assets must cover, following its review of 2025 proof-of-reserve reports. It restates that firms holding client virtual assets must keep reserves equal to 100% of client liabilities, segregated from their own assets and reconciled daily.
Hong Kong and Malaysia: the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Bank Negara Malaysia agreed to work more closely, including a joint policy workstream on compliant cross-border use of stablecoins.
First National Bank adds crypto trading to its share trading platform in South Africa through a partnership with the exchange VALR, with purchases from R10 that stay inside the bank’s platform.
United States: the Commodity Futures Trading Commission proposed two linked rules covering leveraged, margined or financed crypto trading and a new category of exchange, opening a 60-day public comment period.
United States: the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) withdrew two proposed rules, one from 2020 on transactions with self-hosted wallets and one from 2023 on crypto mixing. Neither had been finalised, so existing obligations are unchanged.
United Arab Emirates: the UAE Financial Intelligence Unit and Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) signed a memorandum of understanding on 5 October to share intelligence and expertise on financial crime risks in virtual assets.
Hong Kong: the government plans to submit a bill before the end of 2026 to create licensing regimes for virtual asset dealing, custody, advisory and management services. None of the four has taken effect yet.
India: Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malhotra said on 3 October that the central bank remains cautious about crypto, citing risks to monetary sovereignty and capital flows, while supporting distributed ledger technology and tokenisation. India has no dedicated law covering the digital asset market.
Explainer on joint Bank of Ghana and SEC oversight under Act 1154 and regulators’ warnings about unlicensed platforms.
Absa launches institutional crypto custody in South Africa, with plans for other African markets subject to approval.
SEC Ghana’s Director-General launches the African Virtual Assets Summit in Accra (2–3 November 2026) and calls for stronger frameworks.
Explains SEC Nigeria’s draft rules for digital asset operators, published in August 2026: capital, fees, bonds and caps on retail investment.
Nigeria ranks third overall and first for peer-to-peer and cross-border flows in this year’s index.
Summary of Nigeria Revenue Service guidelines on income tax, VAT and stamp duty for virtual assets and the firms that deal in them.
A Ghanaian broker-dealer joins the SEC Ghana virtual asset sandbox to pilot tokenised bonds.
From founding in 2017 to the Nigeria launch.
Founded by Ola Atose.
KoinKoin announces plans to double its team across Nigeria and Ghana.
Ola Atose speaks on Africa-focused financial solutions.
KoinKoin launches its retail exchange app with local payment methods.
Admitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission Ghana’s virtual asset regulatory sandbox (Cohort 1).
One of six firms in the Central Bank of Nigeria’s AML/CFT/CPF supervision pilot for virtual asset service providers.
Approval-in-Principle under the SEC Nigeria Accelerated Regulatory Incubation Programme (ARIP).
KuCoin Institutional becomes a core liquidity provider through Crypto-as-a-Service.
The KoinKoin app goes live in Nigeria on Independence Day.
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KoinKoin is a Lagos-based pan-African digital asset exchange, founded in 2017. The KoinKoin app lets customers fund their accounts in local currency, trade digital assets and use predictive markets.
KoinKoin operates through KoinKoin Global Network Ltd (RC 1523634) in Nigeria and KoinKoin Ghana Ltd in Ghana. KoinKoin has received Approval-in-Principle under the SEC Nigeria Accelerated Regulatory Incubation Programme (ARIP), is one of six firms in the Central Bank of Nigeria’s AML/CFT/CPF supervision pilot for virtual asset service providers, and has been admitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission Ghana’s virtual asset regulatory sandbox (Cohort 1).
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