Art lovers in Africa are enjoying the NFT craze in the continent, well until the hype dies down. There is no denying that this is a welcome intrusion because of the massive benefits it has brought for some African Artists. Evidently, artists like Allela, Osinachi, and Norman Catherine have made…

Art lovers in Africa are enjoying the NFT craze in the continent, well until the hype dies down. There is no denying that this is a welcome intrusion because of the massive benefits it has brought for some African Artists. Evidently, artists like Allela, Osinachi and Norman Catherine have made…

Mambo Vipi Mombasa! Sankore is here once again for the second NEAR meet. In the fall of 2021, we had an exciting NEAR meet with the people of Mombasa. We covered milestones in growing NEAR’s user base in the Coastal city of Kenya. The previous tour mainly covered the basics…

The NEAR Certified Developer (NCD) program is a course that allows web developers to earn a Certificate of Completion that represents the ability to design, develop, test and deploy smart contracts on the NEAR platform. Part of what Sankore does best is Developer Training. Developers interested in blockchain have an…

The Nairobi Pitch Competition Tour was an exciting affair that happened on 29th January 2022. 10 projects were pitched by different contenders, each offering solutions to Kenyan based challenges that can be built on blockchain and NEAR Protocol. Truth is, all the projects were brilliant and viable, and even the…

If you walk down Nairobi streets, you wouldn’t imagine how well mentally endowed the Kenyan youth are, particularly in solving challenges facing Kenya. It is only until you sit down in a pitch competition, where the young generation airs out their solutions to challenges facing the country, that you…

Hello Africa! Hello Rwanda! Sankore 2.0 is here! Sankore 2.0 will be coming to Rwanda to onboard members to the NEAR Protocol and further share the possibilities of blockchain technology within an African context. Sankore will further demonstrate how it will be the ideal vehicle for the task. The event…

In the past week, several accounts on social media platforms have been promoting a supposed NEAR Protocol airdrop. 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 current dominant financial ecosystem is classified as centralized finance, where the government and banks control the financial systems. The government and the banks are the central authorities that control the flow of money. These authorities do not admit that they control the flow of money, but in essence, they…