Regulators and executives in a digital-asset policy roundtable

Not a conference. An institution.

Where Africa's digital economy meets to shape its rules.

A permanent executive platform for digital-asset policy, regulation and compliance across Africa. Convening weekly, publishing continuously, and building the capability Africa's digital-asset economy now requires.

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Legislation has outpaced supervision.

Between 2025 and 2026, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Rwanda each enacted primary virtual-asset legislation, joining South Africa's established licensing regime. The rules are arriving. The capability to run them is not arriving at the same speed.

Globally, FATF found that while 83% of surveyed jurisdictions have passed Travel Rule legislation, only around 40% of those with it in force have taken any supervisory or enforcement action (FATF, July 2026). That gap, between a rule on the page and a rule in operation, is where risk concentrates, where compliance budgets are wasted, and where markets stall.

We exist to close it.

$205bn

On-chain value received in Sub-Saharan Africa, July 2024 to June 2025 (Chainalysis)

52%

Year-on-year growth, the world's third fastest-growing crypto region (Chainalysis)

43%

Share of regional transaction volume settled in stablecoins (Chainalysis)

83% / 40%

Jurisdictions with Travel Rule legislation, versus those taking any supervisory or enforcement action (FATF, July 2026)

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The institution behind the Dialogue.

The Dialogue is one of four arms of Legum Limited, Africa's Regulatory Infrastructure Company, founded and led from Lagos with a registered office in Maitama, Abuja, and working across Africa, Europe and North America.

Arms of one institution: Compliance, Impact Programs, Fellowship, Dialogue

Advisory clients served across fintech, investment, media and technology

120

Paralegals trained through Legum Impact Programs

Partner organisations across the Legum ecosystem

Source: Legum Limited, legum.com.ng. Legum Compliance has been delivering since 2023; the Impact Programs, the Fellowship and the Dialogue follow.

Three functions. One continuous institution.

Convene

52 executive dialogues a year. Monthly closed-door roundtables and country spotlights. Quarterly executive summits. One annual continental conference.

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Research

The Policy Lab turns what is said in the room into policy briefs, regulatory trackers, country comparisons, supervisory benchmarks, and the annual State of Digital Asset Regulation in Africa Report.

Inside the Policy Lab

Build capability

The Founding Fellowship, 16 weeks and 13 modules, develops the professionals the market is hiring for and cannot find.

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Conversation becomes evidence. Evidence becomes policy. Policy needs people.

Every Executive Dialogue produces a Dialogue Note and an entry in our Issue Log, the running register of unresolved regulatory questions that drives everything else we publish. The Issue Log becomes Policy Lab research. Policy Lab research becomes the Fellowship curriculum. Fellows produce real published work, and graduate with free professional membership for life. What businesses learn from all of it, they take wherever they choose to implement it, including, but never exclusively, to Legum Compliance, which is governed and disclosed separately.

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Printed policy briefs and a regulatory tracker on a desk

Map of Africa with the five Founding Five markets highlighted

Five markets. Every major regulatory model on the continent.

We did not choose the five largest markets. We chose the five where our work is most likely to change outcomes, together representing every principal regulatory model and every stage of the regulatory lifecycle now present in Africa.

NigeriaThe scale anchor
KenyaThe highest-leverage rulemaking window
GhanaThe policy exemplar
South AfricaThe benchmark
RwandaThe policy laboratory

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Building the people who build the systems.

The Dialogue identifies what Africa's evolving digital-asset regulatory environment will require. The Founding Fellowship, a 16-week, 13-module programme run by the Legum Compliance Institute, develops the professionals capable of delivering against those requirements, working inside the live build of the Dialogue itself. Fellowship alumni receive free professional Dialogue membership for life.

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Compliance professionals working together during a Fellowship session

Membership

Membership opens in our second year, once there is a body of published work and an established rhythm that makes a recurring fee defensible. Five categories are already defined, and public authorities will never pay.

The annual conference

Date to be confirmed. The annual continental conference is not where the work happens. It is where a year of weekly convening, published research and trained professionals becomes visible in one room.

Partnership

Nine partnership tiers, identical clauses: editorial independence, acknowledgement that findings may be adverse, no advance sight, public disclosure, no solicitation rights.

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Sponsors fund our capacity. They never fund our conclusions.

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Weekly sessions are by invitation or approved application. Research is free to everyone, permanently.

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