FUNDING | MyStocks.Exchange Receives Strategic Grant from Coinbase, Base Ecosystem Following 2025 Base Africa Founders Fellowship Program Participation

MyStocks.Exchange has been selected to receive a strategic grant from Coinbase and the Base ecosystem to accelerate the tokenization of African stocks and government bonds. The support will advance Mystocks’ mission to build a 24/7 market infrastructure that gives global investors secure on-chain access to African assets while enabling local issuers to reach deeper sources of liquidity.

The initiative positions Mystocks to pilot compliant tokenized instruments, strengthen its technology stack and collaborate with regional partners as Africa moves toward more open and efficient capital markets.

BitKE spoke to Kebaya Mwamba, the CEO of MyStocks.Exchange, to understand the product and what problem it seeks to solve.

Just fresh out of the 2025 Africa Base Founders Fellowship program, Kebaya explained what it took to build the platform and future plans.

“The Coinbase and Base grant strengthens that foundation and supports our goal of bringing deeper liquidity to African stocks and bonds through tokenization.

Our next steps include piloting tokenized instruments with selected issuers, enhancing cross-border settlement and creating pathways for compliant 24/7 trading access. The aim is to demonstrate that African markets can compete globally with greater transparency, efficiency and continuous availability.”


In terms of unique offerings, Kebaya says:

“We offer access upto 8 African stock markets , deposit and withdrawal in local currencies and also support global stablecoins.”

The African stocks market is growing rapidly and Kebaya believes MyStocks will help power this infrastructure.

“African stock markets have a market cap of $1.5 trillion dollars As MyStocks, we project they will grow to $6 trillion by 2030.

The MyStocks infrastructure allows global liquidity to flow to African capital markets seamlessly 24/7.”

When asked how they’re navigating regulation and any challenges along the way, Kebaya says:

“We are in the final stages of securing an FSP license in South Africa, as well as registration as an OTC Derivatives Provider, which we expect to complete within a month.

In Kenya, we are partnering with a local investment bank while engaging closely with the regulator. Across other jurisdictions, we work with fully regulated counterparties.

Regulators have been extremely supportive and proactive with Mystocks . Its a deep honor

We are excited to bring global liquidity to African capital markets and expand access for investors worldwide.”

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