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Introducing crypto@scale, a new show from The Flip, co-hosted by MFS Africa's Head of Crypto, Gwera Kiwana, and The Flip's Justin Norman.

crypto@scale is a pragmatic and hopefully hype-free exploration of the crypto ecosystem across the African continent. 

Today's episode is a conversation recorded live from Nairobi last month. In this conversation, we share our perspectives on the sector, the use cases we find the most intriguing, the challenges we find most pressing, why we're launching a crypto show in the middle of a bear market, and what you can expect from us and this show.

For more from crypto@scale, follow us on Twitter @cryptoatscale.

00:00 - Intro

02:16 - Why are we launching this show

3:51 - The African market conditions and context for crypto's adoption

6:47 - Crypto use cases: stablecoins

10:36 - Regulation, centralization, and CBDCs

14:16 - DeFi and real-world assets

17:36 - Interoperability

19:26 - User experience and crypto education

22:17 - The DeFi Mullet

23:14 - Who's going to build and design for the future of African markets? 

26:57 - Why the name crypto@scale? And what does crypto at scale mean to us? 

29:15 - Prediction and wishlist