Building the NOW of Cosmos Hub in Africa

A Major Leap for Cosmos Technologies, the Hub, and ATOM Adoption, Expansion, and Ecosystem Growth in Africa. Hello Cosmonaut, I’m excited to share an incredible milestone we’ve just completed, a strategic initiative aimed at expanding Cosmos and The Hub in Africa , with a focus on developer onboarding, Hub growth and expansion, and ATOM adoption in Africa. Over the past few months, we executed a full-scale community activation program in Nigeria , with the goal of nurturing local talent, driving innovation, and building sustainable developer communities focused on the Cosmos stack. What began as a bold idea to onboard 200 developers became something much bigger, proudly supported by ATOM Accelerator . tl;dr Program Overview: A 3-Phase Execution Plan Phase 1: Developer Activation and IRL Workshops • Cosmos’s first-ever IRL events were delivered in major cities including Lagos, Abuja, Enugu, Kaduna, Kano, and Akwa Ibom. Event Videos Highlight: Lagos , Abuja and Kano • Hands-on experience on Cosmos Technologies - Building with Cosmos SDK, CosmWasm, and ICS. • Deep dive into AEZ (ATOM Economic Zone) opportunities • Over 500+ total attendees , including…

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The just concluded hackathon was a smooth one from having cool and amazing project in participation and finally having some of them emerges as winners
Kudos to the brain behind the team

The Naija HackATOM was a delightful experience.

Working with a diverse set of devs across different interchain tech stacks, empowering devs and their team to ship an innovative product that solves real problems, was a wonderful experience.

I continue to eagerly work with these engineers as they build out their product and launch on the Interchain and Cosmos ecosystem, especially as native smart contract on Cosmos Hub gets released.

Kudos to the team behind the hackathon. More of this is needed going forward. Grassroot builders building $ATOM aligned Dapps.

Congrats @Popeblack and @ATOMAcceleratorDAO on delivering this ~5-month program.

The number of attendees at the events (500+) and the fact that 10% of them followed through with an actual project (~50), definitely exceeded my personal expectations.

I’m glad to see Beep, Padi and Atwork win the hackathon, and even more so to see Beep make it to the AEZ QF round (vote for them, for free, with your ATOM stake)

I hope you find a way to keep the newly formed ATOM community in Nigeria active and engaged.

p.s. @Popeblack recommend reaching out to one of the mods to bump up your forum trust level so that you can fix the hyperlinks

Thank you @Syed! Seeing the turnout and the quality of projects made it all worth it. Huge credit to you ser for setting everything up and for the support!

We’re definitely thinking about how to keep the Nigerian community engaged—it’s just the beginning!