Adventure through the lands of Adania, a distant realm of high fantasy.  This is a land where humans, elves, orcs and goblins continually do battle for the sake of their own survival. 

We want to make a series of games that take place in the world of Adania and make use of the Cardano blockchain. We are committed to the promise that no Adania game will ever be pay-to-win. Our games will be play-to-earn. 

The two parts you need to know about are: Adania Adventurers and Adania Cards. Adania Adventurers are the first release of NFTs that will be used in every game we make - they are the player's character! Adania Cards refers to the first game we want to make, a competitive dueling trading card game that uses NFTs in active gameplay. We will use the sale of Adania Adventurers to fund the development of the Adania Cards and following games.

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<div data-id="158738" data-title=" Adania" data-slug="https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2022/06/18/cardano-nft-column-adania/">This week&rsquo;s guest on the Cardano NFT Column is a gaming project characterized by a fantasy world of adventure where humans, elves, goblins and orcs struggle against one another for survival: <a rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" href="https://adania.io/">Adania</a>.<a rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" href="https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2022/06/11/cardano-nft-column-earth-natives/">Last week&rsquo;s guest</a> was a project raising awareness &amp; sharing knowledge about sustainable construction using EARTH as a building material.This initiative is a point of reference for NFTs on Cardano and every week or two we will invite someone to answer some questions and give us an update directly from within the Cardano community.Considering that many of our readers are new to the crypto space, we will have a mix of simple and technical questions.<h2>Cardano NFT project: Adania</h2><figure id="attachment_158745" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-158745"><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT1-1024x341.gif.webp 1024w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT1-300x100.gif.webp 300w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT1-800x267.gif.webp 800w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT1-450x150.gif.webp 450w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT1-195x65.gif.webp 195w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT1-96x32.gif.webp 96w" sizes=" 1024px) 100vw, 1024px"></source><img loading="lazy" src="https://cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT1-1024x341.gif" alt="" width="1024" height="341" srcset="https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT1-1024x341.gif 1024w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT1-300x100.gif 300w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT1-768x256.gif 768w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT1-800x267.gif 800w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT1-450x150.gif 450w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT1-195x65.gif 195w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT1-96x32.gif 96w" sizes=" 1024px) 100vw, 1024px">Cardano NFT project Adania is creating a world of adventures</figure><h3>Greetings. Please introduce your team, where are you from, what are your backgrounds?</h3>Chris [Dreams#8888] (Australian based in Vietnam) is the founder of Adania. He&rsquo;s got a background in business development and pharmaceutical sales, as well as a life-long obsession with all things fantasy.Karl [Karl#3205] (American) is a fantastic storyteller. He is currently training in game design and is particularly excited about getting deep into the lore and story behind Adania.Albert [AlbertJacka#0001] (Australian) is our key developer at the moment. He&rsquo;s a mechatronics engineer and a big part of the design and generation of Adania Adventurers.Sid [psychosid#6052] (English) is an IT professional consultant who&rsquo;s true genius is seen in finance and trading.Kamal [KoolKamal#4689] (South African) is a professional animator who has worked in film, animated TV series, and plenty of commercials!<h3>What is Adania? And why have you chosen the Cardano blockchain for your project?</h3>Adania itself is the setting in which the game will take place. It is a fantasy world of Humans, Elves, Orcs and Goblins, plenty of monsters and powerful magic! Eventually we would like to share our idea of Adania to others, so that they might develop games or use it as a setting for their own stories and adventures. e.g. Think about the Forgotten Realms within DnD as an example of a setting which is shared between many players and across different games. We have ideas for a series of games that can take place in Adania. What we are making first is a free-to-play card game that harnesses Cardano so that players will be able to earn and own the cards they play with.Adania Cards is a fast-paced tabletop and digital collectible card game where two players face off and use units, spells and items to do battle with one another. There are 60 cards in the game, split into 5 sets of 12 cards (Humans, Elves, Orcs, Goblins and General). Players construct small decks and play their cards down lanes to damage their opponent and counter enemy movements!<figure id="attachment_158744" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-158744"><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT2-1024x335.gif.webp 1024w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT2-300x98.gif.webp 300w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT2-800x262.gif.webp 800w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT2-450x147.gif.webp 450w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT2-195x64.gif.webp 195w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT2-96x31.gif.webp 96w" sizes=" 1024px) 100vw, 1024px"></source><img loading="lazy" src="https://cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT2-1024x335.gif" alt="" width="1024" height="335" srcset="https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT2-1024x335.gif 1024w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT2-300x98.gif 300w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT2-768x251.gif 768w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT2-800x262.gif 800w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT2-450x147.gif 450w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT2-195x64.gif 195w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT2-96x31.gif 96w" sizes=" 1024px) 100vw, 1024px">One of the first Adania games will be a digital collectible card game</figure>Cardano is appealing because of the mixture of low transaction fees, reliability of the network, relative ease of use, and underlying mission to change the world for the better. We&rsquo;d love to think that through creating a game to have fun with other people, we&rsquo;re also contributing to a community that genuinely impacts the world in a positive way.<h3>What are your thoughts about the Cardano NFT landscape? What excites you the most and where do you see room for improvement?</h3>Two really exciting things for us have been NFT-Maker&rsquo;s recent credit card payment system and ADA Handle&rsquo;s token in general.NFT-Maker has a pure genius solution for people to be able to purchase NFTs on Cardano with a credit card. Payment solutions like these not only expand the potential market dramatically, but also assist in on-boarding new people into the Cardano community and ecosystem in general. For a quick explanation of how it all works, check out <a rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/nftmakerio/status/1532410836752408576?s=20&amp;t=Dr4YJzQfdU-TtGoXVgq2SA">NFT-Maker&rsquo;s Twitter thread</a> on the topic. What&rsquo;s really exciting is the idea that it will be easier for interested people to get involved in Cardano in general.The way the guys at ADA Handle were able to bring so many systems in Cardano together through the use of their very clever token has been something of a revolution in Cardano&rsquo;s NFT space. What got us excited about this was the idea that we would be able to set up core functions with how we&rsquo;ll have our player accounts + wallets interact through the use of ADA Handles. e.g. $adaniaburn is going to be where you send common-tier Adania Cards in order to upgrade them (burning 2 will give you 1 rare, burning 3 rares will give you 1 animated legendary). It seems like a small thing, but the user-friendly nature of the handles really improves experiences on Cardano.Room for improvement: User experience. Cardano can be really difficult for a fresh person to get into.<h3>Let&rsquo;s travel into the future. What do you want to achieve with Adania? Where ideally do you see your project in 1 &ndash; 5 &ndash; 10 years down the road?</h3>Overall we want to make a fun game that people enjoy playing!1 year from now we&rsquo;ll have Adania Cards out and ready to be played. People will be able to trade and upgrade their cards, we&rsquo;ll hold tournaments and find fun rewards for long term players. The focus at this point will still be building! Both the community and the other games ideas that we have.In 5 years, we&rsquo;d hope to have a few games out! (Oops, one is already out today and can be played through our website!) By this point we&rsquo;d love to have Adania Cards fully established, maybe our DungeonCrawler + RPG finished and start looking toward how we can integrate the different games together. By this stage the physical card game should be reasonably well recognised in game stores around the world.10 years from now, we&rsquo;d love to have our games established in their own category of games as well as a MMORPG setup in the world of Adania.While we appreciate that to some people these goals will seem huge and to others these might seem small; we really just want to make some fun games that will bring people together.<h3>Thank you kindly for your time. Any final words? Where can people learn more?</h3>You can learn more on our <a rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" href="https://adania.io/">website</a>: (try clicking the Goblin head for some extra fun!)We want to make things that are fun for people and we&rsquo;re not really looking to sell through pressuring sales or getting into crazy amounts of hype. If you like what we&rsquo;re doing, purchasing an Adania Adventurer or Adania Cards pack will help us out. However, the games are free, so feel free to join in and have some fun without buying anything as well!<figure id="attachment_158746" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-158746"><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT3-2-1024x576.jpg.webp 1024w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT3-2-300x169.jpg.webp 300w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT3-2-1536x864.jpg.webp 1536w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT3-2-622x350.jpg.webp 622w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT3-2-436x245.jpg.webp 436w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT3-2-195x110.jpg.webp 195w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT3-2-96x54.jpg.webp 96w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT3-2.jpg.webp 1920w" sizes=" 1024px) 100vw, 1024px"></source><img loading="lazy" src="https://cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT3-2-1024x576.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT3-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT3-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT3-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT3-2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT3-2-622x350.jpg 622w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT3-2-436x245.jpg 436w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT3-2-195x110.jpg 195w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT3-2-96x54.jpg 96w, https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_InternaNFT3-2.jpg 1920w" sizes=" 1024px) 100vw, 1024px">The world of Adania features Humans, Elves, Orcs and Goblins</figure>Disclaimer: The opinions and views of the people interviewed are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Cardano Foundation or IOG. Moreover, this content is for educational purposes, it doesn&rsquo;t constitute financial advice.</div>

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Cardano NFT: Adania – The Cryptonomist

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Cardano&rsquo;s EMURGO to invest US$100 million to develop DeFi-based products



<h2>EMURGO&rsquo;s CEIV for Cardano in Africa</h2>



Cardano&rsquo;s official commercial (financial) arm <a href="https://www.emurgo.io/">EMURGO</a> is set to invest <a href="https://www.emurgo.io/blog/emurgo-launches-new-100-million-cardano-ecosystem-investment-vehicle">US$100 million</a> in developing DeFi-based products. Smart contracts&rsquo; integration into Cardano&rsquo;s blockchain plus EMURGO&rsquo;s new investment vehicle shall boost decentralized services&rsquo; innovation. These startups will be using and promoting the Cardano blockchain to develop their products. The objective is to promote Cardano blockchain as &ldquo;the technological platform standard in Africa for socially impactful solutions.&rdquo;



Emurgo Ptd. Ltd. shall spin two wholly-owned subsidiaries (<a href="http://emurgoafrica.vc/">EMURGO Africa</a>, and <a href="http://emurgo.vc/">EMURGO Ventures</a>) to fulfil this objective. These subsidiaries will be developed as an investment vehicle, known as the Cardano Ecosystem Investment Vehicle (CEIV).



<h2>EMURGO Africa&nbsp;</h2>



EMURGO Africa (EA) will be totally geared towards incentivizing the creation of startups via seed funding and incubation in the African region. EMURGO Africa has announced further two partnerships. Adanian Labs (a Cardano-specific African joint accelerator program) and Adaverse (an African venture builder) are EA&rsquo;s new partners. Adanian Labs will support impact-driven startups with EA in Africa, to continent-wide boost the Cardano ecosystem.



<h2>EMURGO Ventures&nbsp;</h2>



EMURGO Ventures (EV) will work towards developing markets to facilitate solutions and services building on Cardano. EV will set a capital allocation in the form of seed investments into various Cardano-specific startups and middleware solutions entities. Even those building DeFi and NFT projects, blockchain developer education tools, and other dApps will be catered. EMURGO Ventures&rsquo; debuting seed investment is for Milkomeda (a dcSpark sidechain project that would bridge Cardano and other L1 blockchain protocols, utilizing wrapped ADA (wADA) as an asset.



<h2>About EMURGO</h2>



EMURGO provides Blockchain Solutions globally. A multinational blockchain technology company, EMURGO offers tailored end-to-end solutions for developers, startups, enterprises, and governments.


				
		
		
		
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Cardano Readies US$100M DeFi Fund—Priority Africa

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				Popular trader Tom Busby from CryptoBusy says that Cardano (ADA) is gearing up for a major rally in which it is expected to explode to $4.
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 <h2>Price catalysts</h2>
 <h3>1. Daedalus update</h3>
 As the trader says, Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK), the blockchain development firm that created Cardano is now supporting the next Cardano maintenance upgrade:
 &ldquo;Developers are working on the Daedalus v.4.4.0 release. It would include integrations with the Cardano node and wallet and a facility to unpair a hardware wallet.&rdquo;
 <h3>2. Adanian Labs partnership</h3>
 The second price catalyst is the newly-announced partnership of Emurgo, the investment arm of Cardano, and Adanian Labs, a pan-African venture studio that is focused on building a platform where African tech start-ups can thrive and access all key resources that allow them to grow sustainably.
 &ldquo;This partnership would bring financial and educational empowerment via Cardano&rsquo;s blockchain platform to the billions who lack these opportunities. It is definitely a good approach to increase wide-adoption towards Cardano,&rdquo;
 Busby also highlights that the partnership will help provide the Cardano with a great framework to launch in Africa.
 <h3>3. Oasis Pro partnership</h3>
 It is inevitable that Cardano&rsquo;s recent partnerships are focused on increasing financial accessibility in developing countries. Recently, Cardano, again, made a prestigious partnership with Oasis Pro to support governments in pooling inward remittances to fund large infrastructure projects.
 &ldquo;Cardano&rsquo;s partnerships are likely to boost the utility of ADA tokens and increase the real-world use-cases for the altcoin.&rdquo;
 <h2>Price prediction</h2>
 Busby emphasizes his bullish stances on Cardano and highlights that numerous top analysts are having the same prediction. In particular,&nbsp;Dogecoin millionaire Glauber Contessoto admitted that he has invested in ADA and predicts a breakout in ADA price at the end of 2021.
 Besides,&nbsp;Nigel Green, the CEO of deVere Group, who accurately predicted ADA price to hit $3 in September 2021, is also bullish on ADA and has set a target of $4 for the end of the year.
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 Regarding Busby&rsquo;s analysis, he says that while ADA has been trapped in some sort of rangebound that has not been resolved since the lows seen during September 21 at $1.90, the coin is retesting on this level of demand and going to see a break out at $2.25 range.
 &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been moving in and around this range for a while now and it looks like we&rsquo;re gonna see a huge breakout. We have retested on this level of demand here which is a great sign that we&rsquo;re gonna start pushing up from here and once we can break above that kind of 2.25 range, we can see a huge breakout to 2.70 and even 3 dollars once again,&rdquo;
 He adds:
 &ldquo;I would say this is looking very promising. You know the fact we&rsquo;ve been in this range for a while now, the fact that we&rsquo;re seeing the general market sentiment goes up, it seems to me that Cardano is primed for a great move to the upside and I would say as my first target 2.70 is looking very good.&rdquo;
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Cardano (ADA) is preparing for a major rally to $4 – Here’s why

<img src="/site/uploads/2021/Nov/27/Q-A-Interview-Adanian-Labs-Cardano-EMURGO.png" alt=""> In October 2021, EMURGO&nbsp;<a href="https://emurgo.io/blog/emurgo-establishes-emurgo-africa-to-support-100-local-startups-within-3-years">announced</a>&nbsp;the launch of&nbsp;<a href="http://emurgoafrica.vc/">EMURGO Africa</a>&nbsp;- a newly established entity that will invest $100 million over the next few years in African tech startups - to help spur adoption of Cardano as the standard tech infrastructure platform for Africa’s emerging industrial innovation.To mark the official launch, EMURGO Africa made an investment and formed a strategic partnership with&nbsp;<a href="http://adanianlabs.io/">Adanian Labs</a>&nbsp;- a successful pan-African venture studio and incubator that builds, nurtures, and incubates high potential tech startups - &nbsp;to drive societal adoption and solutions building on Cardano.As a founding entity of the Cardano blockchain, EMURGO and its new entity EMURGO Africa provide technical expertise and understanding of the Cardano ecosystem along with a network of industry partners to support Adanian Labs and selected startups to build socially impactful solutions on Cardano.Our recent&nbsp;<a href="https://emurgo.io/blog/how-emurgo-africa-and-adanian-labs-will-help-100-african-startups-adopt-cardano">blog</a>&nbsp;highlighting how EMURGO Africa and Adanian Labs will help 100 African startups adopt Cardano is one of the first steps towards outlining the vision of our strategic partnership.In this Q&amp;A with Adanian Labs’ CEO John Kamara, we will further discuss the details behind this partnership and what it means for Cardano adoption in Africa, and opportunities for local startups, developers, and entrepreneurs.<h3 id="qa-interview-with-adanian-labs-ceo-john-kamara">Q&amp;A Interview with Adanian Labs CEO John Kamara</h3>1) There have been some exciting developments from Adanian Labs in driving blockchain adoption in Africa. What are some of your recent wins in this space?We launched&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theafricablockchaincenter.com/">The Africa Blockchain Center</a>&nbsp;(The ABC), a first of its kind in Africa, to build blockchain capacity for developers, business leaders, and governments, as well as build solutions and drive blockchain adoption.The ABC received its seed funding within the first 3 months of its inception and is currently rolling out a massive training program for blockchain developers in 5 countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa and Nigeria.The ABC is also running advocacy programs to educate stakeholders on the potential and opportunities presented by this emerging technology.Some other recent key wins include:1) Raising blockchain awareness – Adanian Labs has had the honor of showcasing at local and international conferences to raise awareness of blockchain technology by sharing content around the use cases of blockchain technology for Africa.2) Blockchain R&amp;D projects - We have a couple of exciting blockchain projects under research and development that are set to hit the market in the near future.3) Blockchain in African art – We are exploring NFT’s for African art with partners to see how we can launch a platform that will help artists create and retain value for their work through non-fungible tokens.2) Adanian Labs chose to forge a strategic partnership with EMURGO Africa. How will this help you achieve your goals?Our goal is to build 300 tech powered companies in Africa by 2025.Adanian Labs’ partnership with EMURGO is a key milestone in accomplishing this goal through gaining access to resources and capacities needed to see the goal through.We are redesigning the startup investment template on how African startups are supported.We want Africa to consume its own technology and own its data so that we can solve our own problems efficiently.This is why we are intentional and deliberate in building startup ventures and supporting them with access to the market, technology development, technical know-how, and resources needed to scale while de-risking the startups probability to failure.EMURGO Africa understood this aspect of our model very well and were happy to get onboard and support us.EMURGO Africa is helping us build capacity inwardly and outwardly, within the Adanian Labs team and for tech developers across Africa.3) Tell us about some of the startups that have participated in Adanian Labs’ programs and why they get you excited for the future?Some of the successful startups that have participated in Adanian Labs’ programs include:-&nbsp;<a href="https://ecobba.com/">eCOBbA</a>&nbsp;– A blockchain-based fintech platform for Africa’s underbanked that is digitizing over 80% of Africans in the informal sector who access finance through community savings groups.-&nbsp;<a href="https://afyarekod.com/">Afya Rekod</a>&nbsp;- A first of its kind decentralized patient-driven platform that allows users to store and manage their health records solving the issue of health data accessibility and mobility that are key in delivering quality healthcare.-&nbsp;<a href="https://paylend.africa/">Paylend</a>&nbsp;- &nbsp;A fintech startup helping micro SMEs across Africa solve the problem of access to continous capital while bridging the consumer data gap by connecting consumers to products and services. Paylend is exciting because it collects last mile consumer data that allows for a thorough understanding of consumer needs as it creates value for the SMEs in its ecosystem.Also, I would like to shine light on two centers of excellence that we launched,&nbsp;<a href="https://aiceafrica.com/">Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence</a>&nbsp;(The AICE) and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theafricablockchaincenter.com/">The Africa Blockchain Center</a>&nbsp;(The ABC) to build AI and blockchain capacity and promote adoption of smart technologies in Africa.4)&nbsp;What are some of the most in-demand tech solutions presently needed in the local market? How can Cardano specifically provide unique value for these solutions?Some of the in-demand tech solutions for Africa now are:- Governance and e-government infrastructures- Payments especially around intra-Africa trading- Smart Cities solutions- Mobility solutions- Art NFT’s- Decentralized access to financeAlso, solutions solving issues around agriculture, health, education, energy and environment are still in demand.The African continent is home to some of the youngest populations in the world with an average age of 19 years.It is also set to become the largest populated continent in the world in the near future.The most in-demand solutions are those that will help create opportunity for the young people of Africa.With its large global user base and technology built on the principles of scalability, sustainability, and interoperability, Cardano can provide unique value by allowing developers to leverage the platform to create solutions that will help young people in Africa unlock value for themselves and their communities.5) How do you plan to recruit and select startups wanting to build solutions on Cardano?<figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/emurgoio-ghost-blog/2021/11/image-1.png" class="kg-image"></figure>We plan to recruit and select innovative startups that are leveraging or looking to leverage blockchain in the deployment of their solutions. We work with them to evaluate how the technology can be built on Cardano and work with them to achieve that.We are looking for startups that cover a wide range of sectors including agriculture, energy, environment, financial services, health, mobility, smart cities, SMEs, and beyond.The program will last 12 months and roll across Africa; Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Nigeria and South Africa.Eligibility for selection include:- Tech-based startups looking to solve community problems- A commercially viable business model with the potential to scale- Startups with potential for social, economic, environmental impact- Entrepreneurial mindset and resilience- Startups in need of technical and technology supportInterested startups can apply by visiting our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.adanianlabs.io/">website</a>&nbsp;via the application form&nbsp;<a href="https://my.forms.app/form/618b9ac78c8fa556a183b3a8">link</a>.Shortlisted applicants will pitch to the investment committee in their respective countries in January and 5 startups per country will be selected to join the program housed at the respective Adanian Labs offices across the five countries.The first application deadline is 10th December 2021.Youth and women are encouraged to apply.6)&nbsp;What is the typical course for startups once selected by Adanian Labs?Once selected by the lab, the startups are onboarded into a 12 months building program that includes venture building, training, and mentorship.The program is designed with monthly KPIs under support and supervision that includes:- Fine-tuning the tech solution using relevant technology like AI and blockchain- Building and training a team for the startups and providing expert support- Getting the startups investor ready and exposing them to investor networks and access to funding- Guiding the startups with go to market strategies and supportWhen the startups leave the Adanian Labs at the end of 12 months they would ideally have launched a product, onboard consumers, unlocked their revenue models, closed, or are closing seed deals with investors.7) What is Adanian Labs looking forward to in 2022 and beyond with EMURGO Africa?We believe in the power of technology to solve some of Africa’s most pertinent challenges, and that is why Adanian Labs embarked on this mission to spur the tech revolution in Africa and build 300 tech companies by 2025.To facilitate this, we need to build a strong ecosystem that will enable the companies that we are building to derive value and scale quicker.Our partnership with EMURGO Africa is a critical piece as it adds so much value onto our shared economy mode.EMURGO Africa’s mission to grow the blockchain ecosystem in Africa through the adoption of the Cardano protocol means that we are able to enhance our tech solutions with blockchain technologies to achieve tangible social empowerment in the areas of financial inclusion, agriculture, education, governance, and health.In the forthcoming year through this partnership, we look forward to incubating blockchain startups and providing blockchain solutions for corporate enterprises and government entities in Africa.This means that we will build massive capacity on blockchain development and drive adoption of the technology on the continent.We foresee Africa becoming a mega exporter of technology to the world and we are excited to see how all this will transform the people and the economy of the continent.<h3 id="are-you-a-tech-startup-interested-in-applying-for-funding">Are you a tech startup interested in applying for funding?</h3>As a founding entity of the Cardano blockchain, EMURGO and EMURGO Africa will also selectively provide funding to projects that want to build dApps on Cardano or migrate from other protocols.Among the advantages of EMURGO Africa funding are:- EMURGO funding accelerates business growth and connects networks in the Cardano ecosystem.- Direct contact with the EMURGO R&amp;D team and the Yoroi wallet will expedite development and user acquisition.- Connect with EMURGO's Cardano education to become acquainted quickly with the Plutus language. If you have are a startup and have:- An MVP or prototype but no funds- A strong technical team but lack of business experience in topics such as tokenomics- Solid technical skills, but no marketing presence in the Cardano ecosystem- A great business idea but no partnersPlease feel free to go to&nbsp;<a href="https://emurgoafrica.vc/">emurgoafrica.vc</a>&nbsp;and contact us for more information about funding and partnership opportunities.About EMURGO<ul><li>Official Homepage:&nbsp;<a href="https://emurgo.io/">emurgo.io</a></li><li>Twitter (Global):&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/emurgo_io">@EMURGO_io</a></li><li>YouTube:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgFQ0hHuPO1QDcyP6t9KZTQ">EMURGO channel</a></li><li>Telegram:&nbsp;<a href="https://t.me/emurgo">EMURGO Announcements</a></li><li>Facebook:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/emurgo.io/">@EMURGO.io</a></li><li>Instagram:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/emurgo_io/">@EMURGO_io</a></li><li>Medium:&nbsp;<a href="https://medium.com/emurgo-announcement">EMURGO Announcement</a></li><li>LinkedIn:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/emurgo_io/">@EMURGO_io</a></li></ul>

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