Innovation Hub

Mudala is a carbon credit marketplace built on the Algorand blockchain. It aims to provide companies and individuals a platform to achieve carbon neutrality in pursuit of a more sustainable and green future.

This is the Fintech and Cryptocurrencies 2022 class project in partnership with Investec. It is currently in a POC phase.

Mandla Money aims to advance financial inclusion through low-tech digital products, infrastructure & services. It has launched three products so far: Mandla SMS Wallet, Mandla Pay and Mandla Whatsapp Wallet. Mandla Wallet is a digital wallet that allows users to receive, transact and store value using digital assets via SMS, with no need for a smartphone or an internet connection. Mandla Money is an opportunity to drive financial inclusion, reduce frictions with remittances (domestic and regional) and serve as a mechanism for bulk distribution of transparent & traceable relief aid/social welfare at low cost.

Accolades: Best Social Justice Use Case in the XRPL Creating Real World Impact Hackathon (2022). XRPL Grant to advance Financial Inclusion (2023).

Nautilus is a privacy-as-a-service platform that currently provides two products: First, a Trusted Compute platform which allows data creators to license the use of their personal data without loss of privacy; and second, a personal data wallet which is built on top of the Trusted Compute platform. It's core mandate is working towards the infrastructure on which digital property rights will be created, traded, and redeemed. Our mission is to enable every human on earth to own their personal data and to decide for themselves how this data can be used by others. Our vision is to create a complete replacement of the existing cloud infrastructure which has facilitated an enclosure of data. Using the Nautilus platform, data creators can create a bundle of rights to their data and then decide individually which right they grant to which third party, all without loss of privacy.

In the current world, students have limited control over what happens with their personal and academic data. Registree wants to change that. Their platform lays the foundation for a student data ecosystem which links universities, students and third parties such as employers and bursary providers with each other.

FoodPrint is a digital food supply chain platform for smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa to digitally participate in food value chains, and directly connect with buyers and other participants. Using our low-tech WhatsApp chatbot, smallholder farmers capture their harvest and sales data onto the blockchain, which gives them a credible production record that unlocks access to previously inaccessible markets and services. By anchoring in the blockchain, we obtain a single source of truth that is transparent, traceable and positions smallholder farmers to participate in the emerging Web3 economy.

Axone is a platform for content creators to collaborate in a unique way. Inspired by the theory of “parallel universes”, Axone allows content to have alternative parallel paths. Through collaboration, different creators can expand a piece of content by creating an alternate version of it! Alternate versions in turn can have alternate versions resulting in an alternative path of a content’s evolution! Features on Axone include web monetization and NFT minting.

Axone received $75,000 in grant funding from Ripple to develop it's MVP.