AfriVest launches website for Africa digital asset infrastructure

AfriVest, the Africa programme of DAMREV Group, launched a new website that lays out its digital asset infrastructure, standards, and research library for governments, central banks, cooperatives, and institutions. The rollout comes as the company positions its platform for phased deployment across 2026 and targets Africa’s financial inclusion and cross-border payments gaps.

Why it matters: - AfriVest is positioning itself as infrastructure for African digital finance, not a consumer app. - The launch is meant to show how African assets, currencies, and institutions can be digitized and governed on compliant blockchain rails. - The timing matters because the platform rollout is planned in phases across 2026.

What happened: - AfriVest launched its new website at www.afrivest.org. - The site presents the programme’s scope, standards, and research library. - The website is the new digital home for AfriVest, the Africa programme of the DAMREV Group. - The launch was announced from Cape Town, South Africa, on July 20, 2026.

The details: - The website outlines seven core solutions: asset tokenization, currency digitization with central bank digital currency support, self-sovereign identity, financial inclusion, cooperative governance, stablecoin and cross-border payments, and the AfriVest Academy. - The platform also includes ecosystem products such as a non-custodial wallet and a cooperative exchange. - AfriVest says the programme serves 12 industries. - The infrastructure runs on the DAMREV Engine, DAMREV Group’s institutional-grade tokenization technology. - The DAMREV Engine is built on Stellar-based settlement. - The technology is designed in alignment with ISO 20022, FATF guidance, and IOSCO principles. - The website includes a Regulatory Hub, a research library, and contact routes for governments, institutions, cooperatives, communities, and the diaspora. - AfriVest says the research library includes several hundred articles on African digital finance.

Between the lines: - AfriVest is making a case that Africa’s barrier is infrastructure, not a lack of wealth. - The company points to the African Development Bank’s estimate of about $6.2 trillion in natural capital and the Africa Finance Corporation’s estimate of $29.5 trillion in mine-site mineral value. - The website launch also reflects a push to connect asset ownership with compliance and market access. - AfriVest is centering cooperatives because the sector has about 46 million members, $13.6 billion in assets, and 29,000 institutions across 27 reporting countries. - The company argues that many cooperatives still lack digital governance and access to global markets. - In Sub-Saharan Africa, 58% of adults had a financial account in 2024, up from 49% in 2021, leaving roughly four in 10 adults unbanked. - Sending money to the region costs about 8% of the amount sent, the highest remittance cost of any region.

What's next: - AfriVest plans a phased platform rollout across 2026. - Visitors can use the website to access the Regulatory Hub, research materials, and contact channels for governments, institutions, cooperatives, communities, and the diaspora. - The company says the new site is meant to make the platform’s standards and target users visible before broader deployment.

The bottom line: - AfriVest is using its new website to frame itself as foundational financial infrastructure for Africa, with tokenization, identity, and compliant settlement at the center of its pitch.