Scaling Crypto? There's an App for That. Onboarding Millions in Africa with MiniPay
Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 09:19 AM · 09:28
Post-EthCC, everyone’s talking about the industry’s influx of infra & lack of consumer apps. These conversations overlook the strides made in Africa with MiniPay, a self-custodial stablecoin wallet with 3M+ activated accounts since launching less than a year ago. In this panel, Rene, Yoseph & co-panelists will discuss building, scaling, & updating a truly user-friendly crypto wallet, introducing net new users to Web3 and dApps, & the power of ERC-20 stablecoins for payments in emerging markets.
Rene Reinsberg is a co-founder of Celo and currently President of the Celo Foundation. Celo's emerging Ethereum Layer 2 is at the center of an ecosystem of technologies, organizations, and individuals that all share a mission of building a regenerative financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity for everyone. Previously, he co-founded Locu (acquired by GoDaddy). Rene started his career in global capital markets at Morgan Stanley and also worked at McKinsey, the World Bank, Techn