We report the rule before the market prices it.
CAB is a regulatory and business intelligence publication covering Africa's digital asset economy. We have been doing it since 2021.
CAB was founded in 2021 — the year Nigerian banks were instructed to close the accounts of businesses dealing in cryptocurrency. Overnight, an entire sector discovered that the most consequential document in its life was not a whitepaper but a two-page circular.
That has not changed. The decisions that determine whether a business can open a bank account, obtain a licence, hold customer funds or survive a capital threshold arrive as circulars, guidelines, gazettes and consultation drafts. They are rarely explained. They are frequently misreported. And they are almost never translated into what an operator is now obliged to do by Monday.
Global outlets arrive for the headline and leave. Local technology press covers funding rounds rather than obligations. Between the two sits a gap: the people actually building and supervising this sector have had no consistent record of it written for them.
CAB is that record. We read the instrument rather than the press release, we publish what it requires, and we follow what it costs the businesses living under it.
Licensing decisions, enforcement, funding and market entries across the continent — reported as they happen, with the context that tells you whether anything changes on your side.
Circulars, guidelines, gazettes and consultations across Africa and other countries across as well as other consequential jurisdictions. We read the instrument, not the press release.
Growth, deals, market entry and operator experience. What a licence actually took, which models are working, and which markets were not worth entering.
Payments, stablecoins, custody and the systems moving value across the continent — and what supervision each one attracts.
The durable explanations. How licensing, custody, stablecoins and compliance obligations work in practice, from first principles.
Signed argument from named industry stakeholders. Attributed, edited, and never presented as our own reporting.
We read the primary document. Where a story concerns a circular, rule, judgment or Act, we link to or reproduce the instrument so you can check our reading against the source.
We name people. Sources are identified wherever possible. Where anonymity is necessary to protect someone's position, we say so and explain why.
We separate reporting from argument. Analysis is labelled as analysis. Opinion runs under Viewpoint with the author's name and affiliation attached.
We give subjects a right of reply. Anyone facing criticism in a CAB story is contacted before publication and their response is carried.
We correct in public. Errors are fixed on the page with a dated correction note. We do not quietly amend and we do not delete.
We do not accept payment for coverage. No story is written, altered, delayed or removed because of a commercial relationship.
CAB is edited by people who work inside this sector. That is the source of our access — and it is exactly why our conflicts have to be visible.
Our editorial team holds professional and association roles in the industry CAB covers. We think that makes the reporting better, because it means we are in the consultation rooms rather than reading about them afterwards. It also means you are entitled to know where our interests sit.
Our standing disclosures
- Where a CAB editor or contributor holds a role in an organisation named in a story, that interest is disclosed in the article itself, not buried in a policy page.
- CAB does not report on matters where an editor has a direct financial interest in the outcome. Those stories are assigned elsewhere or not run.
- Commercial partners receive placement and labelled content. They receive no favourable coverage, no advance sight of stories, and no removal of published ones.
- All commercial content is visibly marked as Partner Content and excluded from our news feeds.
- CAB is independently owned and funded by advertising, partnerships, licensing and subscriptions. We disclose any funding relationship that could reasonably be seen to affect our coverage.
Some of the most-read content in this sector is content we will not publish. This is deliberate, and it is the reason regulated institutions are comfortable being seen here.
- Investment advice or recommendations
- Price predictions and market calls
- Token sale, presale and airdrop promotion
- Yield or return claims of any kind
- Coverage of anonymous or unincorporated projects
- Signal groups and copy-trading services
- Paid or unlabelled editorial
- Stories written from a press release alone
Nothing published by CAB is financial, investment or legal advice. Our reporting describes rules and market events; it does not tell you what to do about them. Where a decision carries legal or financial consequence, take professional advice.
If something we published is wrong, tell us and we will fix it. Write to corrections@cryptoassetbuyer.com with the article link and the specific error. We aim to respond within two business days.
Material corrections are published as a dated note on the article itself. Minor factual fixes are made in place and logged. We do not remove published articles at the request of their subjects, and we do not accept payment to amend coverage.
If you believe a CAB story breached our editorial standards, write to the Founding Editor at editor@cryptoassetbuyer.com. Complaints are answered in writing.