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Web3 Afrika Dev Roundup May +Nigeria wallet +5th cohort announced +Project of the week + great NFTs
Friends, we're back! We're back to our regularly scheduled programming, if you’re new, welcome 🙌 you’ll receive a weekly like this one every Monday. For past essays and roundups, visit the previous articles. In today's Edition
1. Nigeria fluid coin launches a Free Wallet-as-a-Service API
2. Innovate Now accelerator announces 5th cohort
3. Crypto Valley Venture Capital has announced the launch of an early-stage fund for African blockchain startups.
4.Meta Opens Cloud API to Enable Businesses Build on Top of WhatsApp
5. Big VC funds targeting African Blockchain Startups
6.Techstars-backed Nigerian fintech Vesti has grand expansion plans for 2022
7.Nigerian crypto exchange Yellow Card launches in Ivory Coast
8.AfriLabs has launched an e-learning platform to foster innovation across Africa
9.Samsung plans to invest $356 billion to generate 80,000 new job opportunities
➨Nigerian Crypto Payments Startup, FluidCoins, Launches a Free Wallet-as-a-Service API to enable businesses to offer crypto-powered financial services/products to customers.
CEO, Lanre Adelowo, FluidCoins, announced its latest product, Wallet-as-a-Service.
With the product, businesses will get to offer crypto-powered financial services/products to customers using stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency whose value is pegged to the dollar or other currency.
➨The Kenya-based Innovate Now, Africa's first assistive technology (AT) accelerator, has announced its fifth cohort of innovators.
A partnership between Global Disability Innovation (GDI) Hub, ICT Norway, Norad, and Kilimanjaro Blind Trust Africa to support digital AT ventures in Africa, Innovate Now is a part of GDI Hub Accelerates – which brings together global stakeholders to accelerate disability innovation through partnership and collaboration.
➨Crypto Valley Venture Capital has announced the launch of an early-stage fund for African blockchain startups. The venture capital firm has invested in 12 startups whose use cases go beyond crypto.
Their objective is to fund some 100 startups from Africa in the next 4 years.
➨Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced the global, public availability of the cloud-based platform, now called the WhatsApp Cloud API during Meta’s messaging-focused “Conversations” live event.
This will allow businesses and developers to build on top of whatapp to customize their experiences and respond to customers quickly and easily
➨Startups and VC
With big VC funds targeting African Blockchain Startups, here are some of the key innovation sectors they target;(RESEARCH ON THE TOP VC AND THE COMPANIES THEY HAVE FUNDED AND REASON )
➨Nigerian fintech startup Vesti, which simplifies banking for intending immigrants and those who have newly arrived in a new country, is planning an expansion into a host of new countries this year after securing backing from Techstars.
Nigerian crypto exchange Yellow Card launches in Ivory Coast
➨Nigerian cryptocurrency exchange Yellow Card has added Ivory Coast to the list of 16 countries in which it operates as it continues to expand across the continent.
Formed in 2018 and launched in Nigeria in 2019, Yellow Card makes it easy for anyone, anywhere in Africa, to buy cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT Stablecoin using cash, mobile money, card, or bank transfer. The company claims to be “building a new financial infrastructure for the African continent”.
➨AfriLabs, an African hubs network, has launched the AfriLabs Academy to provide startup ecosystem enablers with the skills and training they need to support African businesses.
The AfriLabs Academy is part of the AfriLabs Capacity Building Program and is designed to provide training and management skills to African hub managers and staff, entrepreneurship support organizations (ESOs), and other startup support structures in order to improve their ability and capacity to support the growing number of startups and MSMEs in their communities.
DEVELOPER OF THE WEEK👨💻
Slyvia Mutheu is a Web3 developer experience manager at NGENI. Her duties include working hand in hand with the development and engineering teams, UI/UX designers, and marketing to ensure that we have onboarded web3 projects.
“While there are many initiatives to get more women into tech, the problem extends beyond lack of representation. Despite those feelings of pressure, my experiences have been positive at NGENI . I’m not going to say there isn’t progress to be made in the tech industry regarding demographics, but I have felt welcome in the NGENI community from the beginning.
Before NGENI, I used to work at Ivory Eye Center in Nairobi. I managed the two hospitals, did their accounts, dealt with insurance, and did the front office work. ”
She loves cooking, trying new recipes, and participating in physical activities, including hikes, nature walks, and riding bikes. She is a star at playing lawn tennis and dancing. She also loves listening to loud music during her alone time.
PROJECT OF THE WEEK🏆
SUPER COPY TRADER
This bot buys and sells before a target wallet of a trader the user is following transcations in the ETH Mempool.The user will be able to frontrun the trader by placing their orders before the target wallet.
Below is the project view, the tech stack used and the brain behind the incredible project.
INSIDE AFRICA🌍
Every week we are going to be looking at key people and most engaging posts on Twitter in Fintech, Web 3, Cryptocurrency, and Exchange Trading.
GREAT NEWS FOR THE NFT FAM!!
Open sea has 1.7M active users with $30B+ in total volume transacted!But its only limited to a buying & selling platform!
So what's the good news?
SEAPORT PROTOCOL
Opensea decided to build seaport protocol will open up opensea to a whole new world which will include an opensource code that will allow individuals to create and build their own NFT marketplaces
Some pros include:-
1. OPEN SOURCE CODE
With Seaport, anyone can build an NFT marketplace using the protocol because it's decentralized and Open source In the coming years, we should expect to see way more marketplaces being built.
2. TRADING NFTS WITH OTHERS
Right now, you can only buy or sell NFTs for ETH or acceptable tokens (APE, USDC, DAI).On the Seaport protocol, you’ll also be able to trade NFTs.. E.G.
3. DUTCH AUCTIONS
If your not sure what the market values your NFT at you can create a dutch auction.
With seaport, you can set a start and end price and set how long you want the auction to run.The listing will decrease (or increase) the price until a buyer is found.
About NGENI.
NGENI is Kenya and East Africa's first pure-play and largest Blockchain & Web3 development engineering Studio with a 50-plus-person team. The studio recruits and trains recent graduates from STEM Universities across Kenya and today has twenty-five (25) talented developers, at our Kilimani Headquarters.
All engineers have successfully taken on complex coding challenges, and hackathons and have ultimately delivered on complex multi-Blockchain applications, bots, and dApps for international projects.
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