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Lynn Liss is co-founder of the Akoin project, a blockchain ecosystem designed to serve the African economy.
The platform aims to deliver decentralized applications to African entrepreneurs, starting with BitMinutes for prepaid mobile minutes.
1Interview
2020First on the show
May 2020Latest appearance
19 minOn camera
18:30
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Key points
- Akoin aims to unite Africa's 54 countries under one digital currency to solve interoperability issues between different national currencies.
- The platform enables users to convert between Akoin and prepaid cell phone minutes, providing a familiar entry point to cryptocurrency for unbanked populations.
- Akoin is building a Dapp ecosystem offering financial services including micro-lending, crowdfunding, stable currency, and non-financial tools like healthcare and land rights solutions.
- The project uses the Stellar blockchain as its backbone and integrates atomic swaps to enable seamless currency exchanges across different blockchain protocols.
- Akoin targets African entrepreneurs by replicating essential business tools and services available in developed markets as blockchain-based applications.
In their own words
“Our goal is to within the first quarter even get up to about 10 dapps available again one in each lane you can see in our white paper that entrepreneur building blocks.”
