THE RISE OF THE BLOCKCHAIN STARTUPS IN AFRICA
Since the emergence of the blockchain technology a lot of high valued company and influencial individuals have built useful tools that have advanced and progressed the original technology developed by Satoshi Nakomoto.
For a better part of a decade, large corporations were on the sidelines watching and waiting to see what will become of the blockchain but it was only recently they started seeing truly how revolutionary the technology is and how versatile its applications can be in our everyday life. From Elections down to medicine, the blockchain tech can be applied across a wide variety of sectors.
AFRICA HAS BEEN PLAYING CATCH UP
So far, Africa has been playing catchup on this tech and has little to show when it comes to contribution to this revolutionary tech. But this is changing and changing really fast, a lot of young African entrepreneurs are beginning to identify the role the blockchain tech can play in the lives of Africans and the world at large. This has led to the African BlockPreneurs.
We have awesome individuals doing some amazing projects on the blockchain and i am proud to announce but a few of them changing the world one step at a time.
| Name | Startup | Objective |
|---|---|---|
| Onomor Eseoghene Benjamin | SteemX | An exchange for Steem and SBD |
| Nnodim Uchenna Edward | SteemX | - |
| Atare Great | SteemX | - |
| Ololade Titi | SteemX / Offline minnow school | Connecting the offline grassroot with the online |
| Chukundah Amobi | Unicorn | A cryptocurrency exchange for trading bitcoin |
These are but a few individuals making changes in Africa and leading the revolution of the blockchain in Africa.
Good, there's the Yensesa project which aims to provide crypto POS for small businesses in west Africa.
Thank you for adding that, i will update my list on the next post.