Stablecoins & digital assets
Protocols entering Africa. Institutions entering the VASP era. We work both sides of that market — with the relationships and on-the-ground presence to turn introductions into signed deals.
Why now
Across Africa, regulators, banks, payment networks and capital markets are beginning to formally integrate digital assets into the financial system. The opportunity is moving from “Will this happen?” to “Who will build the infrastructure?”
VASP framework is now live
Regulation moves from policy to implementation
Kenya's Virtual Asset Service Providers Act provides a formal framework for licensing and regulating VASPs, creating a clearer pathway for exchanges, wallets, custodians and other digital-asset businesses. Every exchange, wallet and stablecoin issuer serving Kenya must be licensed by 4th November, 2026.
Registration becomes mandatory
VASPs enter formal supervision
The Bank of Ghana has begun requiring VASPs operating in Ghana to register, with the new framework covering wallets, exchanges, stablecoin issuance, tokenisation and other virtual-asset activities.
Regulation is accelerating
Digital assets move deeper into regulated markets
Nigeria's SEC is expanding its regulatory framework for digital assets, including trading, custody, transfer, settlement and tokenisation, while its ARIP programme is creating a pathway for VASPs to enter regulated markets.
310 licensed CASPs and counting
Institutional infrastructure is taking shape
South Africa had 310 licensed crypto-asset service providers by March 2026, while regulators are now developing additional frameworks for cross-border crypto-asset activity.
What we offer
One firm working both sides of it — the Web3 infrastructure entering Africa, and the regulated institutions it has to reach.
For protocols & platforms
BD mandates for blockchain networks, stablecoin companies, wallet providers, and enterprise infrastructure entering Africa. We run the full commercial cycle — from partner identification through to signed integrations and active adoption.
Market access & commercial activation
View detailsFor regulated institutions
Strategy consulting, corporate training, and introductions to the legal and technology partners who handle the filings themselves, for banks, PSPs, and remittance companies navigating the VASP era. We translate the stablecoin opportunity into decisions teams can act on.
Strategy consulting & corporate training
View detailsFor buyers & sellers
We connect institutional buyers and sellers of stablecoins, creating market efficiency in corridors where liquidity is fragmented. An emerging vertical driven by consistent inbound from treasury desks and fintechs across East Africa.
Market efficiency & liquidity matching
View detailsWhy EGP
We have gained great experience and connections working with global protocols expanding in Africa.
Our team has contributed to Africa's most recognised Web3 and fintech projects, including Kotani Pay (Tether-backed stablecoin settlement), MiniPay (the world's fastest-growing dollar wallet), and the Celo Protocol (Africa's leading stablecoin network). Across these mandates, we have grown builder communities in 8 African markets, built cross-border payment corridors, and positioned blockchain infrastructure for mass adoption.
Who we are
Our principals have spent six years embedded in some of the continent's most significant digital payments and stablecoin projects — including early founding work at Kotani Pay and contributions to MiniPay's supply-side infrastructure and Africa market activation, working alongside the teams at Opera and Celo.
We bring the regulatory relationships, institutional networks and commercial execution capacity that global protocols need to build genuine traction in African markets.
About UsEGP operates inside both the Web3 infrastructure world and the regulated finance world simultaneously — the only position from which you can credibly serve both. Most operators do one or the other.
Six years of active CBK and CMA Kenya engagement, built through real product work. EGP's regulatory standing opens doors that are closed to new entrants and remote advisory firms.
Nairobi-based with active presence across Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana and Uganda. The relationships that matter in African markets are built in person, over time. EGP's principals are already there.
Proof of work
MiniPay | Celo Africa DAO
Ambassador programs, integration events & founder accelerators
Read the story
Stablecoin Reception, Nairobi — operators, founders and protocol teams in one room.
Questions
If your question isn't here, the fastest route is a scoping call.
Book a scoping callThree lines of work, each ending in something concrete. Market access ends in signed integrations and active adoption, not a list of warm introductions. Advisory ends in decisions a team can act on — strategy work, corporate training, and introductions to the legal and technology partners who handle the parts we do not. Liquidity ends in matched counterparties. None of it ends in a recommendation deck.
Three groups, matching the three lines of work. Protocols and platforms entering Africa — blockchain networks, stablecoin issuers, wallet providers, and the ramp, KYC and liquidity infrastructure around them. Regulated institutions — commercial banks, payment service providers, remittance operators and asset managers. And on the liquidity side, corporate treasury teams, fintech operators and OTC desks.
With a scoping call on the market you are entering and the constraint in front of you, followed by a short written diagnostic. Most partners then run a defined piece of work — a corridor, a partnership track, a training programme — before committing to a longer mandate.
We are Nairobi-based, with active presence across Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana and Uganda. Kenya is where our regulatory relationships are deepest, built through six years of CBK and CMA engagement on real product work. Between them, the team has run programmes in eight African markets.
Next step
Tell us the market you are entering and the outcome you need. We will come back with a scoped route to it.
