"Cardano is not a cryptocurrency project. Cardano is a world operating system."
- Charles Hoskinson
Mambo Jambo!
The bird has finally landed, and the Cardano Africa Special certainly did not disappoint (even though it was past midnight in SG when the video started)
TDLR, here are some of the highlights of the 2.5h long video:
- Deal with MoE of Ethiopia, onboarding 5m students onto the Cardano blockchain using digital IDs, with 30m in the pipeline.
- Partnership with World Mobile to connect the unconnected at 50% price, 2x speed.
- COTI launched ADA Pay on Cardano mainnet, with first merchant being the charitable organization. Save The Children.
- Synergy between IOG and SingularityNET‘s iCog Lab team in Ethiopia.
- Potentially, 5 new African countries by 2021, 20 countries by 2022.
- 100m loanbook after Alonzo HFC, doing #RealFi (probably Aug 2021)
I applaud IOG, Cardano Foundation and Emurgo for taking the road less traveled. The Africa Special is an important milestone worth celebrating, because building solutions from the ground up at where the demand is highest, and bringing real life use cases of blockchain technology that improves the lives of millions of people, is a truly noble cause.
Be inspired, watch the video here:
Special mention of Singapore too @2:18:30!
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