{"id":274838,"date":"2019-04-22T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiSWh0dHBzOi8vY3J5cHRvYnJpZWZpbmcuY29tL2NhcmRhbm8tZm91bmRlci1zdGF0ZS1jcnlwdG9jdXJyZW5jeS1ldGhpb3BpYS_SAU1odHRwczovL2NyeXB0b2JyaWVmaW5nLmNvbS9jYXJkYW5vLWZvdW5kZXItc3RhdGUtY3J5cHRvY3VycmVuY3ktZXRoaW9waWEvP2FtcA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-13T11:22:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:22:27","slug":"cardanos-founder-floated-a-state-backed-cryptocurrency-plan-for-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/274838","title":{"rendered":"Cardano\u2019s founder floated a state-backed cryptocurrency plan for Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2019, Crypto Briefing reported that Cardano lead developer Charles Hoskinson was pitching a <strong>state-linked cryptocurrency<\/strong> collaboration with Ethiopia\u2019s government, aiming at secure digital payments and identity-style rails.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-271944\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/China-Trade-Week.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cardano\u2019s founder floated a state-backed cryptocurrency plan for Ethiopia\" \/>\n<p>The announcement fit a wider Accra-to-Addis fashion for blockchain MoUs: big keynote language, thin public technical detail, and governments hungry for leapfrog narratives. Ethiopia\u2019s forex crunch and thin banking access made the pitch seductive.<\/p>\n<p>Whether tokens would ever clear ordinary markets was secondary to the political branding. Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early reform years loved tech symbolism almost as much as industrial parks.<\/p>\n<p>As digital-economy archive, the Cardano Ethiopia file remains a checkpoint. MoUs are easy. Trusted payments, data protection, and public accountability are not, especially when the Ethiopian government later tightened control over finance and speech.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptobriefing.com\/cardano-founder-state-cryptocurrency-ethiopia\/\">Crypto Briefing<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardano Founder Reveals State-Backed Cryptocurrency For Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;Crypto BriefingThe lead developer for Cardano (ADA) is planning to develop a new cryptocurrency in collaboration with the government of Ethiopia, in order to provide a secure &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":271944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/China-Trade-Week.jpg?fit=478%2C267&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19uS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601050,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274838\/revisions\/601050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}