Stellar Community Fund

By Benkiko REST APIs

Benkiko Finance

SCF #9

$40.0K

Legacy v3.0 Award

Awarded

The Digital Bank for The Digital Economy.

Products & Services

Benkiko is an online micropayments and tokenization platform for Africa. As The Digital Bank for The Digital Economy, Benkiko enables African online shops, content creators, and freelancers to get paid easily across borders and offers them avenues to invest. Benkiko combines an effective superapp approach with ready-to-use SDKs for developers across Africa to develop solutions for their local market needs and issue tokens for their projects and communities.

Powered by Stellar, the projects and communities can issue digital tokens/assets for governance, utility, or other use cases and become tradable on Stellar DEX as well as AMM.

Benkiko's goal is to enable online platforms and marketplaces to enjoy seamless and affordable payments through easy-to-use SDKs, and enable users of these apps to also get to invest in them through tokens and digital assets. This democratizes wealth creation for average Africans who've been locked out of investment opportunities in the legacy financial system.

Requested Budget

$40.0K

Team

Samuel Mugane, Co-Founder and CEO, is a Back-end Developer living in Nairobi, Kenya. I enjoy building web apps using the Django web framework and REST APIs using Django Rest Framework. I also work with PostgreSQL, AWS RDS, and AWS S3 for database and storage. I also work with Git and GitHub for version control. I use DigitalOcean for deployment. I am knowledgeable in using Github actions for continuous integration and deployment. I have experience building Web3 tool and products including on Stellar with Go, Rust and Python.

John Frank, Co-Founder and COO, Highly motivated and results-oriented Product Manager with 6+ years of experience driving the design, development, and launch of innovative blockchain applications. Proven ability to bridge the gap between technical complexity and user experience, creating accessible and impactful solutions for underserved communities. Passionate about utilizing blockchain technology to empower individuals and foster economic growth in the global south