South Africa has the money. Nigeria has the people.

The rand float is three times bigger. The naira float is growing ten times faster.

Jun 12 • Deriq

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Ripple built the XRP Ledger for payments. Its own dollar moved to Ethereum.

Ripple spent a decade building the XRP Ledger as the home for its assets. Today most of Ripple's own stablecoin sits on Ethereum, the chain it competes…

Jun 3 • Deriq

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May 2026

Nathan Allman built the brokerage the rest of the world didn't have. He was 32.

An obituary, a chart, and a brokerage explicitly built for the rest of the world.

May 26 • Deriq

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There are 217+ stablecoins now. The 65 that don't track the dollar hold about 1 percent of the supply.

I pulled every non-USD stablecoin from Dune's dataset. EUR and RUB are neck and neck at the top, and one issuer carries the entire emerging-market long…

May 25 • Deriq

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USDC grew $18.6 billion in 12 months. The Africa story was a single wallet.

The chain-by-chain breakdown reveals a 49-point gap between global USDC growth and the Africa-aligned chain. Three moves could close it. None of them…

May 24 • Deriq

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cNGN went from ₦105 million to ₦2 billion in a year. Now they're hiring growth.

Supply jumped over 1,800% in twelve months, but the real story of Nigeria's first regulated stablecoin is hiding in the distribution bottlenecks.

May 19 • Deriq

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I Caught My AI Lying to Me 17 Times. Then I Asked Why I Trusted It.

On confabulation, the trust mechanism that lets it matter, and the gut check that's the only real defense.

May 3 • Deriq

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August 2025

GPT-5: From Silicon Valley's Biggest Promise to Safety Theater's Latest Act

How 5,000 hours of "safety testing" couldn't prevent a 24-hour jailbreak—and what that tells us about AI governance.

Aug 12, 2025 • Deriq

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April 2025

Bridging AI Policy Horizons: Why I'm Applying to the IAPS Fellowship (And Why You Should Too)

The future of AI governance is being shaped today, and it needs African voices at the table.

Apr 15, 2025 • Deriq

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March 2025

Hard Fork Africa: Are We Sleepwalking into a New Digital Colonialism?

As AI reshapes our world, we must ask: who benefits, who decides, and who might be left behind?

Mar 16, 2025 • Deriq

Trustworthy AI: African Perspectives for a Just Digital Future

How Africa Can Shape Its Digital Future by Overcoming AI’s Colonial Legacy and Building Sovereign Technologies.

Mar 7, 2025 • Deriq

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February 2025

Unsafe for Our Kids: Why Knowing How AI is Trained is Non-Negotiable

Alexa, What Will My Children's Future Look Like? Watching Toddlers Navigate a World Where AI is Already Part of Their Everyday Reality.

Feb 28, 2025 • Deriq

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