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The African bent for innovation leaves a bold trail throughout history. From the Giza Pyramids in Egypt to the Coffee Bean forests of Ethiopia. In today's tech-saturated world, the legacy continues with brilliant African minds providing scalable solutions across different sectors of the continent and beyond. One sector that continues to bring the global spotlight to Africa is the Blockchain space. Here, millions of Africans have circumvented challenges to organically drive education and adoption of Blockchain technology and its integral facets:

• Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

• Metaverse

• Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT)

• Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)

• Cryptocurrency and others

From Nigeria, crypto startup, Koinwa is a leading voice in the drive toward making cryptocurrency accessible to all irrespective of time, place, and expertise.

A Quick Dive Into Koinwa

The Koinwa marketplace is a safe, escrow-based peer-to-peer platform that facilitates:

• Crypto sales & purchases

• Bitcoin loans

• Crypto storage

• Crypto swaps

The agenda at Koinwa is simple: to enable fast, borderless, affordable financial services through digital currencies. For the new startup, it's not enough to accelerate innovation around the world. Koinwa envisions a financially inclusive Africa where millions of industrious Africans surmount the limitations of poverty by becoming crypto-empowered.

Founded in November 2019 by blockchain consultant and entrepreneur, Hakeem Disu, Koinwa is making business expansion possible today for individuals and small businesses in Africa including smallholder farmers. One would expect a finance-based startup to streamline its impact on all things economics.

However, Koinwa is cutting a wide swathe in its vision of empowerment for the average African. This is because at the center of Africa's crypto drive is a gaping need for quicker, sustainable more widespread adoption. What better way to achieve this than going all the way down to the grassroots?

By integrating blockchain and other mainstream technology into the education culture of the younger generation, the possibility of blockchain outliving present-day pioneers is guaranteed. In Igbo and Yoruba philosophy, it takes a whole village to raise a child. That is why Koinwa is spearheading blockchain education through Edublok, a Web 3 education platform for equipping college and university students with relevant knowledge and skills in this era.

Exploring Edublok by Koinwa

In the words of Founder, Hakeem Disu:

”Blockchain has been the next big thing in the technology space, but is not included in the education curriculum of Nigeria.”

The Forbes BLK member also added that

“Edublok is looking to solve this problem by designing the academic curriculum and textbooks, and also providing blockchain education and entrepreneurship skills.”

Created in 2018, Edublok is an online and virtual classroom for quality education in blockchain, artificial intelligence, and useful skills vital for navigating and excelling in the oncoming future of technology. With physical and metaverse learning, young people of all ages and levels will become better equipped to receive the baton for driving change in Africa.

As of writing, the floundering quality of Africa's tech education landscape culminates in high insufficiency in the following areas:

• Inclusion for students with disabilities

•3D libraries

•3D virtual learning experience

•Blockchain and AI education

•Virtual Reality equipment

•Incorporation of Blockchain & AI in education curriculums

•Zero cohesion between governments, tech companies, and academic institutions

Edublok provides learning materials to properly introduce and educate universities and colleges on blockchain and artificial intelligence. Its in-depth solution also involves sensitization, VR set acquisitions for improved learning, and facilitation of partnerships between governments, schools, and tech companies to further accelerate blockchain literacy in the youth.

By deploying compact but effective strategies, Edublok is connecting regular education standards as we know them to the needs of a growing technology landscape. With Koinwa as a financial backbone, Edublok has successfully reached over 10,000 universities, with the distribution of learning materials stretching into an impressive 15,000.

CONCLUSION

Edublok empowers students with blockchain education and entrepreneurship skills, cultivating future innovators in the growing blockchain and web3 ecosystem. This initiative not only imparts technical expertise but also nurtures an entrepreneurial spirit, encouraging the development of real-world solutions.

By educating students via metaverse, Edublok is achieving its mission at a level of flexibility and accessibility not possible with traditional classroom methods. This means students who live in remote areas or have disabilities can enjoy the same immersive, interactive experience as their peers.