📢 Calling All Blockchain Devs: Shape the Future of African Fintech! 🌍 Are you ready to make a real impact in the world of fintech? The M-PESA x Impact Plus Hackathon is your chance to work with Africa's largest mobile money platform! https://t.co/v7aH0kbfFA

Amazing innovations from the Kenyan Web3 and Blockchain community, tackling real-world challenges and showcasing the power of blockchain. 🚀 Stay tuned for more exciting developments from the projects born here! #ImpactHack

👥Over 28 projects submitted, with a strong focus on fintech solutions aimed at financial inclusion and privacy. Inspiring workshops and mentorship from our sponsors, including @MPESAAfrica , @PrivadoID and @0xPolygonFdn and amazing mentors @iamramxyz, @ibraziz21 @andlopvic

🎉 Impact Plus Hackathon Highlights 🎉 What an incredible journey it has been! Over the past few days, we witnessed amazing innovation, collaboration, and creativity at the Impact Plus Hackathon in Nairobi, Kenya. 🌍 💡 Key Highlights: 🧵

Team Antugrow: A DeFi protocol for secure lending to unbanked farmers, collateralized by their farms as Real World Assets. 🌱🚜 Their platform digitizes farm records into Verifiable Credentials ("Badges") for credit scoring and lending decisions.

Some more innovative solution: Team Exion: A financial platform leveraging blockchain technology to facilitate seamless transactions between digital and traditional currencies. 💸🌐 Members: Ronex Ondimu, Jordan Muthemba, George Agai.

The judges are hard at work, deliberating over some truly impressive projects! 🌟 The talent and level of innovation here is incredible—huge congratulations to all the participants. The future looks bright! 🚀👏 #ImpactHack

Plate Palate by @Salma_Adam_KE, @iamwakibari, and @fabheus Plate Palate is a platform that elevates African cuisine globally by empowering chefs and individuals to monetize their recipes as NFTs. Using blockchain, it secures copyrights for family recipes and helps chefs scale

First up: MUSAPAY by @musapay_ Team @kefaisaboke, @aleki_muia, @prog_enock MUSAPAY is an onramp/offramp protocol integrating @MPESAAfrica with blockchain technology, enabling seamless conversion between cryptocurrency and M-Pesa mobile money. Using @PrivadoID for KYC.

🚀 The first teams are starting to present their incredible projects at the Impact Plus Hackathon! 🎉 🧵...

🚀 Over 28 innovative BUIDLs at the Impact Plus Hackathon! 💡 Our talented teams are hard at work creating groundbreaking solutions across various tracks. These projects are pushing the boundaries of Web3, fintech, and sustainability! Can’t wait to see the final submissions.

⚙️Bounty @0xPolygonFdn 💰 Prize: 🥇 1st: $1,200 🥈 2nd: $500 🥉 3rd: $300 Challenge: Integrate Polygon's blockchain technology to create solutions that promote financial inclusion, transaction integrity, and scalability. Perfect for anyone looking to push the limits of

🔐Bounty @PrivadoID 💰 Prize: 🥇 1st: $3,000 🥈 2nd: $2,000 🥉 3rd: $1,000 Challenge: Build solutions that enhance privacy and data security in Web3, using Privado ID’s technology to protect user data and ensure transparency while maintaining global privacy standards. 🛡️

🏦 Bounty @MPESAAfrica 💰 Prize: 150,000 KSH Challenge: Teams will need to leverage M-Pesa’s APIs to develop fintech solutions that push the boundaries of financial technology and advance financial inclusion. Teams can also combine this with other tracks! 💡 #MPesa

🚀 Exciting bounties are up for grabs at the Impact Plus Hackathon! 💰 Here’s a breakdown of the prizes and challenges that will push teams to innovate and build the future of Web3. 👇 #ImpactHack

🚀 All projects have been submitted! 🎉 Now it's time for the jury to review these incredible innovations and vote for the winning teams. Our hackers have worked tirelessly to bring their ideas to life, and we can’t wait to see the results! 💡 Let the judging begin! 🏆

🎬 Check out the highlights from the second day of amazing progress at the Impact Plus Hackathon! 🔥 @MPESAAfrica @0xPolygonFdn @PrivadoID #impacthack

We’re ready to kick off the last day! Teams will be submitting their final projects by 10:00 AM, and from 10:00 to 11:00, our judges will select the winning teams. The final presentations will take place at 11:00 AM—can’t wait to see what our brilliant hackers have built! 🚀

Later today at 19:00, @andlopvic will deliver a final speech with key instructions on how to submit projects and wrap up the hackathon. Exciting times ahead as we approach the final stretch! 🙌 #ImpactHack

💪 After a morning of hard work, diving into the @PrivadoID workshop, and recharging with a good lunch, our hackers are back at it, continuing to develop their innovative solutions! 🚀

🚀 Incredible energy at the @PrivadoID workshop during the Impact Plus Hackathon! 🔐 Our hackers are diving deep into Web3 privacy and security, exploring innovative solutions to protect user data. #ImpactHack