SEC Nigeria Hosts Tokenized Economy 2026 Conference as RWA Rails Expand Across Africa
SEC Nigeria has partnered with NCMI and CyberChain on Tokenized Economy 2026, themed “Building Africa's Digital Economy On-Chain.” Here's what it means.
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Key Takeaways
- SEC Nigeria has announced Tokenized Economy 2026, a collaboration with the Nigerian Capital Market Institute (NCMI) and CyberChain
- The initiative’s theme is “Building Africa’s Digital Economy On-Chain”
- It builds directly on SEC Nigeria’s approval of tokenized equities trading on the NASD OTC Securities Exchange earlier in 2026 and Daya and Paga’s moves into tokenised assets.
Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has formally announced “Tokenized Economy 2026: Building Africa’s Digital Economy On-Chain,” a landmark national conference scheduled for September 30, 2026, in Abuja.
The conference marks the regulator’s latest step in moving digital assets from informal trading into a compliant, institutional-grade financial ecosystem.
Who’s Involved
The event will be co-hosted in collaboration with the Nigerian Capital Market Institute (NCMI) and CyberChain. The Nigerian Capital Market Institute (NCMI) is the Commission’s training and education subsidiary, and CyberChain is a group that has previously run tokenisation-focused education in Nigeria.
The conference will take place on September 30, 2026, at the Nigerian Army Conference Centre (NACCAS) in Abuja, the Nation’s Capital, with a participation fee of ₦100,000.
The Chief Host of the event will be Dr Emomotimi Agama, the Director-General, SEC Nigeria. Keynote Speakers include Hon. Richard Olufemi Bamisile, who is the Chairman, House Ad-Hoc Committee on Crypto & PoS Regulation, and Tunde Kamali, the Managing Director of the NCMI.
Dr Nurudeen Abubakar Zauro, the Technical Advisor to the President on Economic and Financial Inclusion, will also speak at the event.
Why This Announcement Matters
SEC Nigeria has spent much of 2025 and 2026 building out a formal framework for digital assets, including tokenized assets. In August, the Commission approved tokenised equities and bonds for trading on the NASD OTC Securities Exchange. The first public digital securities offering is expected this month.
That approval sits within a broader legal shift: the Investments and Securities Act 2025 explicitly brought digital and virtual assets under SEC jurisdiction as securities. The regulator has also been shaping the compliance side of that framework.
Its proposed ₦2 billion minimum capital requirement for crypto firms has drawn debate. Critics argue that it raises the barrier to entry too high; proponents believe the SEC is simply building sturdier infrastructure for the market it’s now formally regulating.
Part of a Broader Pattern
Tokenised Economy 2026 also lands alongside a run of private-sector activity. In July 2026, Daya began building tokenised US stock trading access for African users. The month before, Paga announced a partnership with tBook to bring tokenised real-world assets to the continent.
Similar movements are happening across the continent, including Tether’s collaboration with the Nairobi Securities Exchange in Kenya.
These moves show that traditional financial exchanges across East and West Africa want to define the rules tokenised products operate under, a role SEC Nigeria has increasingly taken on through 2026.
