Mobile money is everywhere in Ghana. And now, crypto wants in on that infrastructure too.

Foreign Players Circle As Local Framework Takes Shape

Blockchain.com, one of the older names in the industry, announced this week it had moved into the Ghanaian market with a sharp focus on tying crypto payments to the country’s mobile money ecosystem.

The move came just days after Ghana’s Securities and Exchange Commission published a list of 11 virtual asset companies cleared to operate inside a new regulatory sandbox — the country’s first structured attempt to bring order to a fast-growing crypto market.

The 11 companies admitted to the program are Africoin, Blu Penguin, Goldbod, Hanypay, Hyro Exchange, HSB Global, KoinKoin, Whitebits,…