Ghana's SEC admits Africoin to its VASP sandbox

Africoin, a Rwanda-headquartered platform tokenising real-world assets, including cocoa, coffee, gold, silver and verified carbon credits, on Ethereum, was admitted to Ghana's SEC Virtual Asset Sandbox on 8 April 2026, among the first participants under the VASP Act 2025 (Act 1154). The sandbox term runs 12 months with a mid-term review at six, and successful completion can lead to full licensing.

Ghana's regulatory pathway for digital assets is now operational rather than theoretical, barely three months after presidential assent, a fast statute-to-sandbox timeline by regional standards. The participant itself follows a pattern: a Kigali-based platform seeking approval in Accra while pursuing, by its own account, parallel approvals in other African markets. Pan-African tokenisation platforms are structuring for multi-country compliance from the outset.