NFTs at Work with Afropolitan's Eche Emole & Momint's Ahren Posthumus

In today's episode, we're talking about NFTs. Now, here at crypto@scale, we'd like to talk about the pragmatic use cases for crypto technology. And while NFTs, as a digital tradable asset, have had a lot of focus from an art perspective, we want to take our conversation about use cases a step further.

In today's episode, we're joined by Eche Emole, co-founder of Afropolitan, and Ahren Posthumus, co-founder and CEO of Momint.

Eche and Afropolitan are building a digital nation and using NFTs as a tool to build their community and to create a digital passport for its members.

Ahren and Momint are working to bring digital assets to the real world.Earlier this year, they launched SunCash, a blockchain platform using NFTs to crowdfund solar power projects in South Africa.

In this episode, we'll hear from Eche and Ahren about their respective companies, their vision for a crypto-enabled continent, and much more.

Discussed in this episode:

• SunCash whitepaper
• Afropolitan Manifesto
• Almanack of Naval Ravikant

00:00 - Intro
04:58 - What are NFTs?
07:14 - How SunCash is using NFTs
10:23 - How Afropolitan is using NFTs
15:01 - Bringing digital assets to the mainstream
17:18 - Afropolitan's Web2.5 approach
21:37 - Why did Momint launch SunCash to address South Africa's electricity challenges?
23:38 - What does a crypto-enabled future look like in Africa?
32:01 - Recommendations
33:51 - Follow us on Twitter

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Ahren Posthumus - https://twitter.com/Ahren_eth