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Meet Chiazokam: a dark, six-foot-tall, and unapologetically curvy girl with the firm belief that the sun should rise and set according to her needs 🙂‍↕️ When she isn’t trapped in the humid grit of Lagos traffic — hurling insults at the fevered, gasoline-soaked rush of fatigued yellow danfo buses as they belch thick, charcoal-colored smoke into the air — she is recounting the shege of her financial life. Every chance she gets, she narrates the many ways the simple act of sending money or making a payment has tried to break her spirit 🧵👇🏽 #XaraXSolana #StableCoinsOnXara #XaraBounty

It’s finally happening! 🏖️ 🍸 🍖 Right after the building, learning, and conversations at Startup Village Nigeria, we’re taking things off-site and onto the beach. We’ll be hosting the Solana Beach Party, a chance to unwind and connect in a more relaxed setting. Think good music, drinks, and proper Lagos beach vibes. 📍 Lagos 🗓 9th May ⏰ 12 PM See you there!

Meet Chiazokam: a dark, six-foot-tall, and unapologetically curvy girl with the firm belief that the sun should rise and set according to her needs 🙂‍↕️ When she isn’t trapped in the humid grit of Lagos traffic — hurling insults at the fevered, gasoline-soaked rush of fatigued yellow danfo buses as they belch thick, charcoal-colored smoke into the air — she is recounting the shege of her financial life. Every chance she gets, she narrates the many ways the simple act of sending money or making a payment has tried to break her spirit 🧵👇🏽 #XaraXSolana #StableCoinsOnXara #XaraBounty

The character Chiazokam is fictional, but her story is not. A report published by EdPlugNG in November 2025 identified zero glitch as the leading cause of financial loss, accounting for 34% of documented cases. This typically involved a user adding an unintended zero — sending ₦100,000 instead of ₦10,000 — often because an app fails to auto-format figures with commas in real time. But why do people make such errors on apps they use every day? Surely, familiarity should prevent these mistakes, not encourage them. The truth is, the problem goes much deeper than it appears on the surface. I wrote a deep-dive article about these psychological hurdles, the broader payment challenges Nigerians face, and how @usexara_ai is disrupting the status quo as a WhatsApp-native conversational banking platform. Click the link below to read👇🏽:  efemildred.substack.com/p/end-of-the-b…

It's been fun bringing the Why We Ship series to life with @HendyJ_. Plenty more to come. Here's some of the videos that we've dropped this week 🧵

@SaigonButcher Congratulations! 🥳

Hello world! Daddy duties complete, I’ll see you guys shortly in Miami at Accelerate. (I kid…I joke 😃)

Meet Our Speakers: Startup Village Nigeria 2026 - Product Section. @timmyisagod is the founder & CEO of @evolutionapp_, a global payments platform that connects emerging markets to the world, he is on a mission to make global financial services accessible to the next billion in emerging markets. @Chinaecherem is the founder of @Nectar_finance, which empowers users to send, receive, save, and invest globally with the speed and security of Solana blockchain technology and fully self-custodial wallets, while enjoying the familiar experience of traditional banking.

this is a lit video 👏🏽 i love how you infused The Weeknd and Carti’s timeless towards the ending.

Everyone thinks NFTs are dead.. Well they just haven’t met @LaunchMyNFT Enjoy in 4k 🍷⚡️ #LMNFTcreate

@Hogwartsofweb3 @Veh__la Niceee. Good luck!

@Ef__e @Veh__la I had to, Stallion. I'm solving my own problem. Others can benefit from it.

Proof of work, but not enough. I keep going. ✌️

@niran7 @lifeofedi_ United fans are elite 🙂‍↕️

@lifeofedi_ a united fan calling me soft looool

finally back to a regular sleep and workout routine after 5 weeks of travel, only for Miami next week 😭

@niran7 Love your tattoos! 😍

Other chains have a narrative-focused approach to RWAs: lots of represented value but no usage. Solana is where institutions go to find real distribution for their assets. In the last year, Solana climbed to #1 in both total (41% market share) & active holders (44%) in RWAs.

@YouKnowEno You were a great host! 👏🏽 P.S. RIP JaeHyun 🕊️

thank you to everyone who joined today’s ecosystem call in loving memory

How to win Frontier: lessons from a 2x hackathon winner While building @NOMADZxyz, we lost 3 hackathons in a row before finally winning @solanamobile. Here’s what I wish I knew before stepping into the Colosseum arena. FOUNDATION > Your project needs to do 1 of 2 things: → solve a problem no one else is solving → or solve it better than everyone else > Target a specific audience → If it’s for everyone, it’s for no one > Have a working MVP → Ideas don’t win hackathons, products do! > Clearly show how you solve the problem → Not just the idea, but the actual implementation DECK > Record a Loom video, not just slides. → Judges remember people, not PDFs. > Keep it under 2 minutes → If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough > Structure: Problem → Solution → Demo → Team > Less text, more clarity → Slides support you, they don’t replace you > Show the product working → A real demo beats any screenshot. > The first 10 seconds matter most → Hook them with the problem immediately TEAM > Show why each person in the team matters → Not just who they are, but why they’re relevant > Link real work → GitHub, shipped products, portfolios, etc... → If someone built something people actually use - highlight it DURING THE HACKATHON > Ship early → polish later → Getting a working version early gives you time to improve it > Document and post everything → Progress builds credibility > Test your links before submitting → Broken demo = lost AFTER → Keep building → Keep posting on X → Keep searching for more opportunities → Never give up! The most important thing to remember is that it’s a competition between early-stage startups, so you don’t have to be perfect to win. Drop your 1-line pitch + X in comments, would love to see what you’re building.

I had a swell time streaming the @solana ecosystem call! Eno and Simon @SolBrothersPod were great hosts as usual 👏🏽

Orbit by @airbillspay, built out of Nigeria, just got profiled as one of the global ecosystem products to watch on the Solana Ecosystem Call 🔥🇳🇬

Lock into the April - Solana Ecosystem Call with @SolBrothersPod x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Today is another Solana Ecosystem Call 🥳 Find your nearest states / hosts 👇🏿 1. Abia State - @Neekhole_ luma.com/uxh10s1q 2. Bauchi - @_kamalkt luma.com/5vt7s9so 3. Gombe State - @_jiibal luma.com/u3ru2k5q 4. Adamawa - @Web3Geek01 luma.com/q6mfmviy 5.Kaduna - @favison_o luma.com/2g0i550r 6. Ogun - @sirbarna luma.com/ndy9u8we 7. Kogi - @crego55 luma.com/ow1jwlsg 8. EKITI - @CallMi_Alex_ luma.com/hcsvwanm 9. Kwara - @callmeFeyi_ luma.com/gtna6uj7 10. Jigawa - @Olydefi1 luma.com/pedv97wv 11. Oyo - @ESamueltrades luma.com/iq0l7ax2 12. Uyo - @UnclePhil_01 luma.com/fjr3bdm4 13. Delta - @edafeafiemo luma.com/u1zlsoxe 14. Cross River - @CrypticPriest luma.com/xnvnstjg 15. Plateau - @sampang_tg luma.com/j94tcd0l 16. Ebonyi - @gbreigns luma.com/872ww7kl 17. Bayelsa - @outstandingvick luma.com/bd60yp66 18. Nasarawa - @talk_toeddie luma.com/clm24xy3 19. Lagos - @JudithOgar luma.com/zq63eyc6 20. Abuja - @Hadeezarrh1 luma.com/o8l3jl76 21. Anambra - @tiphann_yy luma.com/8c1p9v7d 22. Enugu - @vancube_2 luma.com/b6n2aknb 23. Niger- @Atomictheory001 luma.com/406y0ouu 24. Ondo- @Michael_fide luma.com/jz2z2mb2 25. Imo - @teeofkings luma.com/067je39q 26. Edo - @thejustinson luma.com/nweqeev6 27. Osun - @CyptoOnab luma.com/l4ihzpy0 28. Borno - @Queenexphil luma.com/0pe0u3x3 29. Kano - @Imoncrypto luma.com/91x8mzlc