Singer Akon tweeted yesterday, “Simply finalized the settlement for AKON CITY in Senegal. Trying ahead to internet hosting you there sooner or lat
Singer Akon tweeted yesterday, “Simply finalized the settlement for AKON CITY in Senegal. Trying ahead to internet hosting you there sooner or later.”
The futuristic metropolis
Final 12 months, Cointelegraph reported early plans for the futuristic metropolis. The mission portends a “100% crypto-based metropolis with Akoin on the middle of transactional life.” The metropolis would become Senegal’s first Management in Power and Environmental Design (LEED)-certified metropolis. It’s set on a 2,000-acre parcel gifted by the Senegalese president.
Reviews trace at Mbodience, a brief drive from Senegal’s new worldwide airport, because the land in query. Final week, the 45-year-old entrepreneur signed a “memorandum of understanding” with SAPCO, Senegal’s state-owned tourism division
In keeping with an interview from November on radio station Energy 106, Akon Metropolis is a long-term undertaking. “It’s a 10-year constructing block so we’re doing it in levels. We began building in March [2019] and stage two goes to be 2025,” Akon mentioned.
The Akoin as Africa’s future
However the Akoin, based on its website, will quickly launch its beta platform. It’s the muse of the Akoin workforce’s three-part imaginative and prescient to empower “rising entrepreneurs with digital and actual life instruments and providers; and enabling manufacturers to unlock the facility of Africa’s rising financial system.”
Cointelegraph reached out to the Consulate Common of Senegal, which had but to obtain authorized paperwork on Akon Metropolis at press time.
Akon will not be alone as a pro-Africa crypto mogul. Though Twitter and Sq. CEO Jack Dorsey has been mum on Akoin, he views Africa broadly because the cryptospheric future. Cointelegraph reported final 12 months that Dorsey, who has pledged integration of Bitcoin into each Twitter and Sq., attended a Bitcoin meetup in Nigeria. He mentioned, “Africa will outline the longer term (particularly the bitcoin one!).”