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God. I need a win!!!!🤦🏿🤦🏿

Met a really nice trader yesterday who really enjoys talking, so I tried to match his energy. Long story short, I’m still trying to replenish the energy I lost😂 He asked “do I have to go to the bank to change this USDC to Naira before spending it?” I said chere. I used @paj_cash to buy something from his shop. And you know PAJ, it wasn’t even up to 20 seconds and he received his money. He first believe! Proof that he doesn't need a bank to spend his crypto.

@parallexbankng for the love of God, please leave me alone🙏

Aside from the building experience and everything I learned, one thing I've really enjoyed about the @MetaMaskDev Cookoff is the constant AI credits from @AskVenice. At this point, I've received well over $150 worth of AI credits from @AskVenice. That means even after the hackathon, I'll still be building and experimenting with AI consumer products using Venice. A big thank you to both teams for investing in builders, not just during the competition, but even after it.

@Jhamiyou @Clashboard Thank you man. Congratulations too

@codeX_james @Clashboard same here, congratulations though @codeX_james 👏🏽

These are the kind of results where you simply type, "Congratulations to the winners," and keep it moving. Even though I won in the social media track for building @Clashboard in public, there's still a part of me that feels like I could have done better . I was deeply invested in this hackathon and genuinely thought I had a shot at one of the technical tracks. But we don't get to win every time. So this is me learning to take my L in public, reflect on it, learn from it, and move on to the next challenge. Congratulations to every winner. Every project that won earned it, and it's great to see so many strong builders leveraging infrastructure to build cool and amazing stuff. Regardless of the outcome, I had a great time building with x402, @AskVenice, @1ShotAPI, ERC-7710, and ERC-7715. I learned a lot, built something I'm genuinely proud of. Looking foward to the next @MetaMaskDev cookoff

@kryptdou_ @Harri_obi If Jos house agents mistakenly increase price of house rent, we would hold you responsible 😊.

@Harri_obi Come to Jos. Cool weather, fresh food, good culture, zero touts and welcoming people. 🤗💯

Dropped madam off at iFitness yesterday. Had to tip some touts ₦20k just to back her across the massive pool of water in front of the gym. Got to my own destination, couldn't even drive in. Had to park at a supermarket and order a cab to take me the rest of the way. This Lekki living is not Lekking anymore.

I love keeping my interfaces simple and minimalistic

@fabiansanchd @StellarOrg @NekoProto Welcome to Africa Fabian

And off to Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪! Going to @StellarOrg GIVE Kenya 😎 with @NekoProto

I am happy to announce Hookdrop This is for every developer and team who's ever debugged a Stripe or Paystack webhook by squinting at logs and praying. Debugging webhooks shouldn't mean babysitting a provider dashboard. hookdrop gives you a permanent URL, so every webhook that hits it shows up instantly, live. Click it, see the full payload data, and verify their signature is actually real (most tools don't even do this part). Then replay it straight to your localhost. No need to trigger from the provider again every time you fix a bug. Get started at: [hookdrop.app]

I needed to hear this like mad!!

OKX Wants You to Build What's Next 🫵 Excited to co-host the OKX AI Genesis Hackathon with @OKX and @XLayerOfficial, where builders create Agentic Service Providers (ASPs) —autonomous AI services for the real world. ▫️ $100K prize pool 🏆 ▫️ Up to $10K for a single award 💵 ▫️ Open to both crypto and non-crypto ASPs ▫️ PR support from OKX AI ▫️ Multiple special award categories Applications close July 17, 23:59 UTC. Ready to build? Apply now 👇 hackquest.io/hackathons/OKX…

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Our maths genius, Victor Onwubiko, just came out of the International STEM Olympiad finale. Listen to his experience. We are rooting for him to win gold.

@BusariKhalid Congratulations big BK

Signing out of Uni today. 🎓 It still feels unreal. What a journey it’s been… 🧡

The competition is tomorrow, and the boys are ready.

My mum owns a primary and secondary school somewhere in Akeja, Ogun Sate. There is this man, Papilo, a supplier who handles FMCG products in that area. He comes Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Sundays are for my mum and other school owners stocking up for students during break. He is not the only one. They are everywhere like that. One thing I know is that most of these sellers don’t pay him immediately, They pay on the next supply day or after a week. Sometimes it stretches to 3 supplies before payment clears. I've watched him argue back and forth with customers who say no money yet. He still gives them all or little. I've seen this for over 15 years growing up. This is the practice across every informal market in Nigeria. This is Africa’s informal supply chain. Papilo knows all his customers. He knows their children’s names. He argues, negotiates, and finds a middle ground. No App or AI can replicate this. Papilo now runs plenty of small kekes distributed all over Akeja and beyond. In African businesses, relationships aren’t just nice-to-haves. They are part of the infrastructure. And this is where the majority of our builders get it wrong. A techie once went to get bread at a store and stumbles on a sole distributor supplying them wines. He thinks “so this is how these get their stocks” he goes home to google the numbers and sees millions of retailers, no central database, orders on phone call, cash payments, manual records. He sees the classic Manufacturer → Distributor → Wholesaler → Retailer chain and he goes “yes! This is a gap. This is untapped. I can build this on an app”. Actually, he is right. But here is what he missed; The supplier extends credit The wholesaler knows who always pays at each time. The sales rep knows whose child just got admitted into university. The delivery driver knows which shop opens late or earlier None of this can fit in an app database because they are the everyday circumstantial reality of Nigerian business owners. Your app can’t document this. A retailer doesn’t always buy from who is cheaper. She buys from who’s delivered consistently for years. The one who lets her pay next week. The one who picks up the phone immediately there is a problem. See your app can calculate credit just fine. But the distributor knows Mama Olomi missed payment because her shop flooded last week. That context is the business in this part of the world. You will think funding fixes this but marketForce had $42M and still died. Sendy had $27M, Medsaf had $7M. Your investors will push you to the usual playbook; free delivery, discounts, cashback, promotions, etc and growth will look incredible at first but the moment the subsidies disappear, you will start to compete with relationships using economics alone. Then you’d realize your capital didn't buy survival, it brought speed to a broken model. Somebody say Reality! Now let’s look at the ones who didn’t die. They simply mutated. Sabi moved into traceability/export infra. OmniRetail leaned into embedded finance. Sendy’s co-founder built TABB on trade credit data. Rather than say we’re replacing distributors, they became the operating system behind the distributors helping them; 📍 Manage inventory 📍 Collect payment 📍 Access financing 📍 Discover retailers 📍 Forecast demand 📍 Coordinate logistics This is the lesson for anyone building in African informal market. Don’t ask How do i remove the middleman Ask, what valuable job is the middleman doing that technology can make easier? Don’t compete with the market woman, equip her. Build the layer she can’t build herself (credit history, verified supply chains, payment infrastructure, etc). This is because Africa’s distribution problem was never about apps vs humans. It’s about who controls the trust layer. Build that, not the marketplace. @blocstreets