Kenya: Leads the World in Peer-to-Peer Crypto Marketing, Chainalysis Global Crypto adoption Index 2021 revealed

By Abdul Rahman Bangura–

NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone- Cryptocurrencies are being rapidly traded by Kenyans with each other (“peer to peer transactions” better still P2P) on earth. Citizens of different African regions are similarly plummeting at the alternative to ease remittances and cross-border enterprises from
expensive transfer taxes and the dangers of deterioration of moolahs.

Chainalysis, Global Crypto adoption Index 2021 has placed Kenya as the top country in the world in terms of peer-to-peer exchange trade, before the other 154 nations according to a census. The chart renders options for buying power equivalence per capita and the internet-using population.

Moreover, indexed in this component are Togo (2), Tanzania (4) and Ghana (10). An extensive self to self crypto business has also been listed in Nigeria (18), with South Africa, classed 62nd.

The trend is speculated to have been partially caused by the peril of depleting African doughs due to a rebirth of the malignant virus in the form of the Delta variant, which has shoved endeavors to re-open frugality.

“Many emerging markets face significant currency devaluation, cryptocurrency on P2P platforms in order to preserve their savings,” the report revealed.

The currency of Kenya devalued by 6.3% against the US dollar since January, according to Central Bank of Kenya data. Yet, there has been no primary selloff amongst Africa currencies in 2021, with the South African rand fairly unruffled between January 1st and August 1st, after bolstering in June of 2021.

Cryptocurrencies enable Africans to thwart lofty remittance amounts that infers that, where Africa is interested, users might be swiveling to P2P platforms the more handily and cheaply make international transactions.

International money transfer costs are well known to be very much huge in Africa, while businesses are frequently narrowed.

The record indicates citizens in emerging thriftiness proceeding smaller, retail-sized payments under $10,000 worth of cryptocurrency for international commerce to facilitate individual remittances and purchase of goods to import and sell.

The ranking did not share the absolute trade volumes per country but based its listing on transaction data supplied by two of the largest and most popular P2P platforms, Local Bitcoins and Paxful.

“While this means that we aren’t capturing all P2P value, we believe these two exchanges are popular enough for their metrics to act as an overall approximation” announces Chainalysis.

When it comes to overall adoption of cryptocurrencies by country, Kenya and Nigeria are also at positions 1 and 2 in Africa respectively and are classified 5th and 6th globally. The latest data from Chainalysis exhibits mode of cryptocurrencies globally rose by over 880% last year, primarily steered by marketing’s on peer-to-peer for a in arising demands.

For New Africa Daily News Abdul Rahman Bangura Reports,  Africa Correspondent