Writing

Essays on African economies, mobile money, crypto rails and the craft of building financial software.

Crypto

Stablecoins are a treasury tool before they are a payment rail

The importers I know moving dollars on-chain are not avoiding banks. They are avoiding the queue for them.

4 Sep 2026
6 min
Crypto

On-chain does not mean off-regulator

The compliance surface doesn't disappear when you change the rail. It moves to the edges, where nobody owns it.

31 Jul 2026
2 min
Mthunzi
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Colophon. Set in Fraunces and Source Serif 4, with Inter for labels. Charts drawn by hand in SVG. Written and built by Mthunzi Sabali.