In brief
- Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority is seeking to buy a blockchain analytics platform to police the country’s virtual assets market.
- The tool would monitor Bitcoin, Ethereum, and at least 20 other networks to flag fraud, money laundering, terrorism financing, and sanctions evasion.
- The move follows the Virtual Assets Service Providers Act of 2025, which brought Kenya’s crypto sector under formal regulation for the first time.
Kenya’s securities regulator wants to buy a blockchain surveillance system to help police the country’s fast-growing crypto market, as it prepares to license and supervise virtual asset firms under a new law.
The Capital Markets Authority is seeking an advanced blockchain analytics platform to monitor digital…
