NEAR Foundation has appointed Sankore as the newest regional hub of NEAR Protocol. Sankore is based in Africa's silicon savannah, Nairobi, Kenya. The hub opens up greater opportunities and avenues throughout Africa for blockchain solutions, which come from innovation in development, education and talent.

Blockchain potential projects need incubators, who will provide a set of resources needed for success to launch projects. Incubation brings on board mentors, who offer training, as well as a community, to share experiences and ideas. Here are 5 reasons why your blockchain project needs incubation.

The number one reason brilliant tech projects and startups fail is because of a lack of capital. A brilliant idea and a will to succeed do not suffice in this new era of technology. Here are 5 reasons why your blockchain project needs funding.

Sankore is holding the 2nd edition of the Pitch Competition Tour. Register your blockchain based technology projects, and join us this Saturday 14th May 2022, as we help the next three best projects and ideas get funding and incubation.

Joining a blockchain community is important to expose you the full experience of the crypto world, harnessing job and money-making opportunities, while avoiding common mistakes newbies make in the space. ‍

As the world ushers in the next evolution of the internet, human resource is required to develop and maintain its infrastructure. The most marketable skill in Web3 is web development. Here are some reasons why devs should learn about web3 and the top web skills they need to learn.

Sankore is hosting a webinar on Saturday 23rd April 2022. The webinar targets the Sankore community in Mombasa, but all are welcome. Join us in the webinar to learn about Web3 and why you should join web3 now.

Sankore NEAR-Meets are local programs for event meetups. These meetups are events where locals gather to benefit from blockchain education and network with people in the NEAR ecosystem.

Sankore is visiting Kisumu, Kenya for the second time. This is a developers' meet-up, a forum to educate and enlighten developers on the importance of building on Web3, and the immense opportunities available on Web3.

DeFi is here to disrupt traditional finance. DeFi has eliminated intermediaries, who were out to make maximum profits, while providing inefficient, restricted and slow services. Read how DeFi eliminates intermediaries through smart contracts.

Crypto has revolutionized finance and brings brilliant use cases which continue to attract more people to the new way of money. The use cases have great potential, and with refinement over time, crypto is set to take over.

Cryptocurrency is changing the finance and banking landscape. It is an idea that continues to solidify, with banks and other financial institutions incorporating crypto and blockchain into their systems. This is a simple explainer of Cryptocurrency.

Sankore CEO Kevin Imani is giving 350 US Dollars to the first 6 developers to get NEAR Developer Certification in Sankore Academy. The incentive is put in place following massive interest from developers across the country to learn NEAR Developer Certification at Sankore Academy.

Sankore held the community's second NEAR-Meet in Nakuru. The theme of the event was Harnessing Opportunities in Web3. Nakuru community joined Sankore to learn about blockchain and web3. Here is how everything went down.

Sankore Academy is a unit within Sankore2.0 concerned with the training and certification of Blockchain enthusiasts and developers about blockchain technology.We guide learners to get certifications in NEAR.

Sankore 2.0 will host the community's second NEAR-meet in Nakuru. The first NEAR-meet was in December 2021, during the BitKe crypto tour. This time, Sankore will host the event and the theme will be Harnessing Opportunities in Web3. Join us at the Legacy Hotel Nakuru, on 19th March 2022, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM.

Africa has the youngest population in the world that still struggles with unemployment. There is an unmet demand for human resources in the online and crypto spaces. African youth can equip themselves with digital skills and harness the immense opportunities in the digital space. Sankore 2.0 has partnered with NEAR University to equip African youth with these skills, and prepare them for the online and on-chain job market.

Sankore will be holding its Second NEAR-Meet in Mombasa. Join us to learn about NEAR Protocol and explore Sankore's self-governed community that rewards talents; The Sankore Bounty Ecosystem.

Developers have the chance to make the most of the imminent transition to Web 3.0. Sankore conducts Developer Training and here is a list of incentives that developers in Sankore enjoy.

The Nairobi Pitch Competition Tour was an exciting event on 29th January 2022. 10 contenders pitched their projects, each offering solutions to Kenyan based challenges that can be built on blockchain and NEAR Protocol. These three projects satisfactorily checked all the boxes needed to secure Sankure incubation.

Saturday 29th January 2022 witnessed some of the greatest minds in Nairobi, gather at the iHub center, to pitch blockchain and NEAR-based solutions to challenges facing the country. These were the 10 contenders who pitched their brilliant blockchain and NEAR-based ideas.

Web 3.0 is the next evolution of the internet which promises to be potentially disruptive, bringing a big paradigm shift from the interactive Web 2.0. Web 3.0 will be built upon the critical concepts of openness, decentralization, and greater user utility. The trustless and permissionless building features of Web 3.0 will allow participants to interact directly without going through a trusted intermediary.

When it comes to crypto investments, one of the main challenges for investors is not getting caught up in the hype. Digital currencies continue to take a place of prominence in the investment portfolios for many investors. Economic analysts on the other side continue to warn prospective investors of the volatile nature of cryptocurrency investments. Here is what you need to know before investing in crypto.

The Sankore Bounty Ecosystem (SBE) is a self-governed community that engages talents with tasks and rewards them for their skills. This ecosystem seeks to help users engage their talents, in what would be the constant practice of their skills to help them understand NEAR Protocol.

Sankore is launching a Pitch Competiton Tour. The tour will cover Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa, giving Africans an opportunity to pitch blockchain solutions they can build. The winners will benefit from Sankore’s Incubation Program of three months.

Cryptocurrency projects tend to promote their coins, especially when they realize adoption is organically soaring, the prices are rising and there is potential in the coin. The price of NEAR has been on a steady upward trend and it would not be a surprise if an airdrop would be in the offing This begs the question of whether the NEAR Protocol airdrop announcements by accounts in social media platforms are genuine. Everyone would want a share of the rising NEAR Protocol tokens, but is the developer currently issuing free coins?

Decentralized finance (DeFi) is an emerging financial technology built on secure distributed ledgers that resemble those used in cryptocurrencies. The system eliminates intermediaries including the government, banks, and other financial institutions. Instead, the system embraces smart contracts that run on a blockchain.

The blockchain industry is experiencing massive growth, which is also reflected in the field's job market. This compounding result has attracted more people to the blockchain industry, as they look for careers in crypto. Educating and acquainting oneself with the blockchain sphere and dynamics is one sure way of starting your career in the field. There are many opportunities and a huge gap that needs to be filled in the crypto space particularly in Africa.

Artists and athletes are reaping big from NFTs, with sales of up to 1 million dollars or even more for their NFTs. But what is the craze behind the surging sales and staggering prices of these tokens that do not physically exist? African artists have also joined the NFT gold rush, with documented success cases from around the continent.

Sankore 2.0 is an Africa-focused community integrating the NEAR blockchain to projects and solutions conceived and built by local developers in Kenya. The organization, which is named after Africa’s oldest educational institution, helps developers to make use of NEAR and adopt Web3 technologies. To learn more about Sankore, you can follow the community on Twitter, Instagram and check out Sankore’s Website.

Since the African crypto market is still new, with people learning about the space, and others embracing the new investment bus, Africa has become the new playground for crypto scams.

We started off the Kenya Crypto Tour in the coastal town of Mombasa. The majority of the people we interacted with were young adults in college who were eager to learn how they could adopt new technologies such as crypto. We have a record onboarding figure of 100+ new wallets within 5 days.

Some of the earliest adopters of mobile money payments were in Africa. To most, it's almost not normal to have the ability to transact cashlessly. Crypto gives people this option on a global scale. Regardless of location, nationality, or social status, the power to transact is in your hands. With so many opportunities within the continent, there are bound to be major disruptors in the space.

Africa has a population that is increasingly tech-savvy, creative, and hungry for new opportunities. NFTs are a game-changer for African artists and creators as it provides a new and more efficient way to monetize their content, manage intellectual property, and set royalties and revenue streams across multiple assets.

The popularity of community inclusion cryptocurrencies in Kenya keeps growing, with rural farmers adopting digital financial technology. According to a report, some rural farmers in Kenya now accept to be paid in cryptocurrency and use it to buy agricultural supplies or meet basic needs. According to a VOA’s report¹, one of the reasons this alternative monetary system has become popular is that it allows users to preserve their savings in fiat currency.

The CBK is also authorized to regulate cryptocurrencies either through the NPSA or through Kenya’s Money Remittance regulations². Licensing is required whenever a company offers a service for the transmission of money or any representation of monetary value without any payment accounts being created in the name of the payer or the payee. Therefore, virtually all cryptocurrency providers must be licensed in Kenya to legally operate within the country. Consequently, the CBK is empowered with broad discretion and several legal avenues for the regulation of cryptocurrencies.