Fedi at the Africa Bitcoin Conference 2025

We wanted to offer a quick wrap-up of last week’s Africa Bitcoin Conference, of which Fedi was a proud sponsor. 

Our CEO Obi Nwosu participated in a fireside chat to discuss community custody and how financial tools can promote economic freedom across Africa. 

In addition to leading several workshops with our Africa Fedi Master Modibe Matsepane, our Head of Field Operations Renata Rodrigues participated in the panel "From Code to Community: Building Bitcoin Products for Africa.” 

(Credit: Afrobitcoin.org)

In addition to the workshops, the partner agenda in the Fedi Lounge reflected our belief in elevating-and-celebrating our collaborators. 

Some other items of note:

• Femi Longe from the Human Rights Foundation gave a passionate talk about the attention toward Bitcoin “Churches” (i.e., evangelism) versus Bitcoin “Factories” (i.e., people and projects building the Bitcoin future). Necessarily, both are important, though arriving at the right ratio requires consistent attention (such as the kind Longe provided) and is something a movement arrives at over time. 

• Decentralization was also a theme, realized by the likes of Gridless. The company launched the developer release of the Jua Kali Miner, “an open source project that allows farmers and small industries to make use of their excess solar energy to mine Bitcoin.” (“Bitcoin Factories,” indeed!)

Fedi also participated in the Africa Bitcoin Circular Economies Summit hosted by El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach and the Federation of Bitcoin Circular Economies (FBCE). The needs of BCEs sit squarely within Fedi’s offerings — wallet, community, and federations — as well as the impassioned interests of our team. 

More specifically, it’s becoming clear to most hands-on participants in this space that offering tools for localization and customization is vital for success, versus relying on a one-size-fits all approach. This reflects the desire expressed by community builders to have a hand-on, flexible tools in order to best serve their members. 

This renewed focus on on-the-ground necessity means that bringing the world onto Bitcoin has quickly leapfrogged discussions of technology, monetary theory, and economics. It has landed on how it can be used to solve day-to-day problems. In other words, the medium-of-exchange and unit-of-account discussions have accelerated past the store-of-value one.

We go into 2026 into a world where freedom and privacy, in Africa and everywhere else, will be among the key defining topics that drive the global agenda. More on this to come.