Global cryptocurrency exchange Bitget brought its educational campaign to Lagos on Saturday, hosting the Bitget Community Education Day at the Imperial Hall, Lilygate Hotel, Lekki Phase 1.
The full-day event combined live demos, crypto learning, networking, and exclusive rewards, attracting over 100 participants from Nigeria’s growing blockchain community.
The program featured sessions on blockchain fundamentals, wallet usage, peer-to-peer trading, deposits, merchant tools, and advanced modules on spot, futures, and copy trading.
Icebreaker activities, Kahoot quizzes, raffles, and giveaways kept the atmosphere lively. The first 70 attendees received free Bitget T-shirts.
Education is at the core of Bitget’s mission
Speaking to TechPression Media, Munene Mathendu, Marketing Manager for Bitget Africa, said the initiative reflects the company’s commitment to building a safer, more inclusive crypto ecosystem in Africa.
“The inspiration here is to ensure that communities are educated the right way, to spread our educational wings—particularly through the Blockchain4Youth initiative,” Mathendu explained. “We want to ensure people learn correctly, avoid scams, and see crypto as simple and usable in everyday life.”
Mathendu noted that Bitget has been holding similar community engagements across Africa, including recent stops in Ethiopia and Kenya. He emphasised that beyond teaching trading strategies, Bitget aims to make digital assets practical and spendable.
“One of the things we discussed today was the BitgetCard, which allows users to swipe and pay with crypto simply,” he added. “We want to make crypto so easy that everyone can use it without the jargon or the sophistication.”
Stablecoins, Tokenisation, and Fintech Support
Looking ahead, Mathendu highlighted three major forces shaping Africa’s crypto landscape:
Tokenisation: Mathendu described it as a game-changer, opening access to assets once thought out of reach. Beyond traditional stocks and commodities, he envisions tokenisation expanding into real estate and other sectors.
“For African people, tokenisation just means opportunity. It allows access to things that were previously very hard to reach—whether that’s real estate or other real-world assets,” he said.
Stablecoins: With Africa’s cross-border payment challenges, he sees stablecoins as a lifeline for faster, cheaper, and more secure transactions.
“I’ve particularly seen fintechs offering this service, and what Bitget does is provide the technological resources for them to build on top of it. Stablecoins can really solve the cross-border problems we face in Africa,” Mathendu explained.
Standardised Payments: He believes solutions that eliminate FX conversions could simplify international trade and remittances.
“We’re looking at standardised payment solutions where there’s no need for FX conversions. That’s a huge step toward making money move easily across borders—fast, secure, and cheap,” he noted.
Mathendu also stressed that the next three to five years will likely bring greater regulatory clarity, with more jurisdictions developing frameworks for exchanges and ecosystem players.
Ideally, we’ll see more regulatory acceptance, with jurisdictions opening up and providing proper frameworks. That’s what will push the technology to the masses,” he added.
“The frontier is not just trading,” he explained. “It’s about tokenisation, standardised payment solutions, and regulatory clarity that will allow the ecosystem to grow responsibly.”
Other key speakers
The event also featured lectures by David Oludele, Bitget Builder Nigeria, who explained blockchain architectures, and Marvellous Ndubuisi, Head of Social Media & Community—Africa, who guided participants through buying crypto via P2P, bank deposits, and cards and becoming Bitget P2P merchants.
About Bitget
Founded in 2018, Bitget is one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges and Web3 companies, serving over 100 million users in more than 200 countries.
Known as the world’s largest crypto copy trading platform, Bitget records more than $20 billion in daily trading volume and offers over 800 digital assets.
Its ecosystem includes the Bitget Wallet (formerly BitKeep), a multi-chain wallet supporting NFTs, swaps, and DApps.
The company also partners with global brands, including the Spanish football league La Liga, to advance crypto adoption in sports and emerging markets.