Adaverse & Cassava
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Mouloukou Sanoh
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BACKGROUND RESEARCH
Guest Research
- Mouloukou Sanoh, Co-founder of Cassava Network, is on a mission to drive Web3 adoption in Africa. His company is building Africa's Web3 platform with a focus on entertainment, gaming, and loyalty rewards. With a multi-chain wallet, NFT platform, rewards platform, and E-sports league, Cassava Network aims to become Africa's gateway for crypto, connecting the continent to the world and the world to Africa. The company is partnering with leading companies across Africa, such as Boomplay, Vskit, Bitmama, and Carry1st, to release innovative products that aim to ease the transition from Web2 to Web3.
Project Research
- Adaverse - Cardano ecosystem accelerator & alchemist; focus on Impactful tokenised startups
- They boost project growth with access to
- Capital, Mentorship, Tech Support, Global Network
Ep Guide
Intro
- Mouloukou Sanoh is the Co-founder of the Cassava Network and an Investment Manager at Adaverse. He was born in Guinea but had lived in multiple countries including China, the Netherlands and Belgium.
Episode Questions
- You are of course a bit of a 3rd culture Kid, but could you perhaps give us a brief overview of your background? ✅
- What in your experiences has made you decide to invest in Africa - why not stay in Belgium, or China or truly, anywhere else, what conviction did you have to essentially return and work towards the betterment of the African continent. ✅
- You have mentioned multiple times, in fact i think we even quoted you on the weekly sats and gwei episode one time when you very passionately said web3 needs Africa not the other way around - why do you feel this way? ✅
ADAVERSE
- Adaverse lauched in 2021 through the EMURGO Africa and Everest Ventures partnership. What was - from your understanding - the reason behind creating adaverse? Why is an accelerator of this kind necessary for the crypto community in Africa? ✅
- What have you seen in practice in terms of various investment strategies being applied across Africa? ✅
- Tell us a bit about the startup school, what is it about and when can we expect an official launch? ✅
CASSAVA NETWORK
- Why did you start the Cassava Network? ✅
- You mentioned in your interview with Business Insider that ‘Cassava is building Africa's web3 platform focused on entertainment, NFTs, gaming and loyalty rewards with the aim of mass adoption and acceleration of cryptocurrencies’, curious to know how exactly you are doing, can you share on the execution front what it looks like? ✅
- In September 2022, you launched the Cassava AfriMyth avatar generator (Cassava V1), which are life pfp’s or even nft’s. These avatars were based on 5 African mythological characters – Anansi, Afonja of Ilorin, Queen Idia, Sango and Usman dan Fodio. These avatars are currently off-chain but will be moved on-chain soon and will serve as the primary building block of the Cassava digital identity system - for posterity’s sake i should add a disclaimer that I got one myself - but can you tell us what the avatar project was about, it was free so I have been enjoying just owning one but are there other plans it beyond that? ✅
- You have already secured some phenomenal partnerships with Carry1st which is a content & game publisher across the continent, Boomplay, an African music streaming service, Aha Games, Breach, Canza Finance, Axie Infinity, the list is quite lengthy, what other partnerships can we expect to see for the Cassava Network? ✅
- What are you most looking forward to in the remaining 2 quarters of the year? ✅
Disclaimer
- None of what we share is financial advice, please do your own research, especially when the space tends to shift so rapidly.
- Nothing is set in stone, there is a world yet to be discovered, and this time, Africa is at the core of the table.