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No surprise here, Nigerians are one of the most active traders dominating the industry. When ranking the active traders in Africa, we're NO1 and our volume is also competing with other well know crypto friendly nations outside Africa. Nigeria naira becomes the first ever fiat currency to get listed on Binance and this will help us massively as before now localbitcoin has always been the main source of buying bitcoin for cryptocurrency enthusiast (traders and Investors).

This will make it easier for users interested to trade bitcoin/altcoins get bitcoin through fiat more easily and probably spent less in regards to fees since there won't be need to transfer bitcoin from personal wallet to Binance exchange after probably buying it from localbitcoin (as we commonly do).

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i saw this update and was wondering how it was possible. The Naira been the first african Fiat currency on binance. a good means to promote crypto in africa and beyond. a welcome development. binance should assist us for withdawals when they need there funds. everything can be look into.

This really an awesome news that Binance is supporting the cryptocurrency market growth in Nigeria, Binance have seen the opportunity in their market as the number of crypto users are really increasing day by day. According to their post, deposits will be facilitated by the online payment's company Flutterware, and it will be limited to BTC, BNB, and crypto exchange's own stablecoin BUSD.

It's probably about time. Hopefully, it doesn't kill other exchanges in Nigeria.

With most active airdrop and bounty hunters also. I've interacted with a lot of Nigerians on different ICOs/IEOs telegram groups.

Not just first Africa but first worldwide. No need to wonder as the enthusiast from Nigeria patronizing Binance most have triggered this move by Binance. Many projects have not yet gotten the memo to capitalize on the opportunity as cryptocurrency is very huge in Africa, and Nigeria is leading the chart especially when it comes to trading and investment. it's the next alternative the citizens have towards escaping the corrupt practices in their respective nations.

Currently there isn't much physical usability of the currency like using it for everyday shopping, payment etc so what we mostly do as enthusiast revolves around Investing/trading with the currency.

A very good development. Quite a way to ginger up African countries into adopting crypto and also at the same time creating more awareness about binance. Nigeria as a country is on the top list with the most active crytpo engagements in Africa and even in the world. This will open up more frontiers for adding more currencies.

I think that binance add NGN because Nigeria is open for new technologies and does not make unnecessary problems (good for them) rather than they have dominated the industry. Just loock at NGN/BTC volume. 26 M NGN - that's 75 k $. Its nothing. I know that its first day of trading but its less than noticeable.

CryptopreneurBB, I know you're from Nigeria and I'm very happy that binance is adding your currency to its trading pairs.  They ought to add many more currencies in my opinion but its great that they recognized Nigerians as a force to be reckoned with in crypto trading. 

Bitcoin (and alts too) is really a global thing and people need to be able to buy it with their local currency.  It's nice that exchanges like binance have stable coins denominated in USD, but they need to start accepting more currencies if they want to grow and attract more customers.

By the way, I've known some Nigerians in real life, and they are some of the most ambitious hardworking people I've ever known.  They put the average U.S. citizen to shame.

Man, you should be awarded the cryptocurrency boss for Africa the way you have been hardworking promoting cryptocurrency for Africa and I think this is really a very good news for Nigerians, which means Nigerians are really participating in cryptocurrency a lot for binance to have even spotted this country out of many countries that are in their exchange trading, and don’t be surprised that it may get to a stage too where they will actually have a separate domain for them  like they have for US.

Nobody needs to tell me how Nigerians are participating in cryptocurrency because I have quite some friends there and virtually all of them are cryptocurrency holders while some her traders. This is a very good opportunity for Africa too having their largest country in cryptocurrency trades fully.

I have seriously no idea about Nigerians dominating the trading industry as i have other misconception to be frank and good to hear that binance listed fiat simply because of the trading volume  :o. It is a good development for the entire continent and i wonder why there is a huge trading volume, is it because there is no trust in the official political system and the economy or is it because of the opportunity and the freedom the market gives.

Quite early though to start taking trading stats, don't forget we're in an unfavorable market season also it'll require time for the traders to buy into this idea as most of them currently patronizing Localbitcoin in buying of bitcoin with fiat so it'll require some marketing plus time to encourage more traders to be aware of this development and probably buy bitcoin directly from Binance.


Both, the political system is corrupt, favoring only selective few while neglecting the masses also the opportunity the industry offers is also a driving force behind the numbers of enthusiast been recorded in the country.

Good news, is there no regulation regarding fiat registration at the binanace exchanger? Usually the government provides several regulations for security arrangements. I don't see NGN on the binance exchanger, is it on the binance dex? Good support done by binance.

Very intelligent move made by the CZ & the co. Africa is a huge niche for cryptocurrency projects taking into account the big percentage of unbanked people there. We all know what success MPesa had in Kenya and pretty much all over the African continent. I strongly believe that cryptocurrencies are going to be the catalyst that will end the hunger and boost Africa economic and social development close to what we now see in most of the countries.

Especially because they have most of the population unbanked means that there are less hurdles and they won't have banks protesting against the change :D

I have no idea the volume from Africa are mostly from Nigeria. The government of the country must be bitcoin friendly government but the first I know of the country that is crypto friendly is Zimbabwe. I also have noticed it just today that there is BUSD in CMC. Looks like everyone is taking advantage of stablecoin and BNB is taking its full benefit by grabbing market even the African market.


There had been many of the people are trying to view crypto to be the tool to waken these countries up for its potential.  

It's been a long time coming. I did saw this one coming. Nigerians are topping the charts for countries with high trading volume – The #1 in Africa and #7 worldwide. One interesting fact is that Nigeria's volume has been quite consistent since 2016.
Source : https://www.bitcoinmarketjournal.com/bitcoin-trading-volume-by-country/

I'm not forgetting Flutterwave's role in making this a possibility. Big kudos to them. One of the best tech companies in Nigeria at the moment.

The latest development is a big plus to Nigerian crypocurrencies enthusiasts I believed binance sees the need to accommodate teeming Nigerian bitcoin traders who had resorted to using unsecured third parties in buying and selling of cryptocurrencis this is absolutely a way out not long a go despite the warning by the Central bank of Nigeria who had issue a stern warning against the use of cryptos.
link: https://www.coindesk.com/nigerias-central-bank-again-warns-on-crypto-investments
Despite the high rate of unemployment in the country the hard working teeming youth had to find a way out in trading their coins to make ends meet the listing of NGN will big sign of relief in making swift and faster transactions.

I think Nigerians are one of the earliest adopters of crypto and I would say that they are really very active specially around 2017 wherein I have some interactions with them as well. So I wouldn't be surprised that Binance has choosen Nigeria Naira to be the first currency to be listed on their platform. So it's a win-win situation for all Nigerians here and of course Binance are going to expand its presence even more in Africa with this bold move. And Nigerians are amongst the top remittance sender country, if I'm not mistaken so it will be fairly easy from the other side to test this as well. I think this open a lot of doors from Nigerians and experiment to see how they can take advantage of this.

It was listed at binance dex and not in binance exchanger, maybe because there was no regulation yet implemented with NGN. I am looking after for other countries to have the chance to be listed like NGN, hopefully most asian countries who've been strongly patronizing cryptocurrency trading.

yah, although people think that Nigeria or countries in Africa are underdeveloped, in terms of crypto, they have a lot of people involved in trading and investing.
This is why CZ is looking to Africa and expand its network to increase market liquidity and exchange platform. That is a great direction.

I looked for pairs of NGNs on Binance DEX, did not find them? I think other countries will follow, but there are still government rules that must be completed, someday other countries will have money in Cryptocurrency.

Be cautious while trading with the Nigerian Naira (NGN). This particular currency has lost almost 60% of its value during the last 5 years. The exchange rate was 1 USD = 160 NGN in 2014, and now the exchange rate stands at 1 USD = 361 NGN. The Nigerian government has devalued the NGN two times recently, once in 2016 and the last time in 2017.

It still contributes though, and saying that it's nothing is like an understatement considering that Nigeria is one of the most progressive countries in Africa despite the fact that poverty still runs out and about. Seeing that Nigerians are actively engaging in trading cryptocurrencies, it's already a good thing and something worth noticing and worth mentioning since that side of the map often is disregarded on economic scenes.

This is quite good rather than other old projects that has been dead.
Maybe it's just the effect of the current market condition so they devalued the price.

No doubt Nigerians are one of the most active community in cryptocurrency and it is an awesome update that top exchange like Binance has listed Nigeria's official currency Naira. The most supporting factor behind this may be Nigerian govt. positive stand regarding cryptocurrencies unlike other countries. Nigeria must have realized the benefits of blockchain chronology and its good affects on economy. I wish all other govts make a positive stand for cryptocurrencies.

I never knew "binancian" is a word, maybe the OP created it or maybe it was a thing beforehand but I really enjoy it, "binancian" like a game class or race (race looks better) like in wow or something.

Nigeria is known for their active community in bitcoin world, I have met with hundreds of them during my 7 years in bitcoin world and I feel like I have worked with tens of them as well (more like 7 probably), they are good coders, they are good designers as well and they have great English, they have better English than most Europeans I have met so they do work in digital advertisement properly, you can hire 3 Nigerians (one coder, one designer, one writer) and you can literally build a whole digital agency for probably under 200 bucks a month which would really mean you can profit super easily and grow from there.

Looking at the chart NGN has been stable for the last 2 years, going sideways. But man.. those drops make it a forex world shitcoin. Of course that traders who are are willing to trade BTC using NGN should either cover themselves against NGN downside or closely watch the economical and politic aspects of Nigeria. It is important for a trader to know what kind of asset is he trading at all moments ;)

Yes. I agree. But OP said that binance choose Nigeria because:


Which is far from true. Binance choose NGN because it was easiest to do since Nigeria is open for blockchain technology and is "actively engaging in trading cryptocurrencies" but it is definetli not dominating the industry.
1D trading volume on NGN/BTC is equal to 8M NGN = 22 222$ ! 1D trading volime on USDT/BTC on binance is 1 000 000 000$ its 45 000 times less.

Summed  it up and this thread didn't last more than 4 days. I need to build a P2P bitcoin exchange, is there anyone with skills to make this a reality?

OP is an advocate for the growth of cryptocurrency in Africa on this forum, and I think I'll be right if i say when he meant Nigeria is dominating the industry, he didn't mean all over the world, of course it's not possible for Nigeria to be the most dominant crypto savvy nation in the world, so many nations have adopted the technology, groomed it, even before Africans bought into it.

I feel OP meant Nigeria is one of, if not the most active in cryptocurrency trading in Africa, and I think Nigeria, along with Ghana, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Botswana lead that list in Africa, so I think he's correct if he says Nigeria is dominating the industry(at least in Africa).

According to a survey made using stats from Local bitcoins, it was estimated that Nigerians are the top 7 people in the world with the highest bitcoin volume although I have to say that I am surprised that the Nigerian Naira happened to be the first Fiat listed in Binance exchange, but presently it's not the only one as more Cryptocurrencies (I think 4 at last count) has been added as well, eagerly awaiting the time my country's currency would be listed, fingers crossed.

Don't be surprised. You already said it yourself. Nigeria has  the 7th highest Bitcoin trading volume year to date as per data release by Localbitcoins. To add to that statistics, the number of Nigerian Bitcoin users and traders are increasing with each passing day. Nigeria is quickly becoming a hub for Crypto. I'm glad we're edging towards financial freedom and other perks that comes with Blockchain.

My Nigerian friends were bragging about how it meant that Nigeria has a special place in the Cryptocurrency sphere but recently, more fiat currencies has been added and CZ has made it known that he plans to onboard about 180 new fiat currencies within the next 6 to 9 months, ofcourse it's all just funa Nd games and playful banter between friends.

One of the difficulties many face in crypto is how tk convert their crypto coins to local fiat which they can use for their everyday runnings activities, .providing an easy way for this conversion will have a positive effect on crypto mainstream movement
This is a good step that CZ have taken. Given to the fact that Nigeria is the most populous black nation,  getting the attention of crypto enthusiast in that region will go a long way to aid the global adoption of cryptocurrency and Blockchain technology.