Q1 Project: A Research Paper on The spending habits of Africa's top 10 economies, and what it means for founders. Founders often think Africa is "too complex," but the data proves otherwise. I mapped household spending across Africa’s 10 largest economies. Here are the key findings: • Food is the ultimate TAM: It consumes 40–61% of income everywhere. Lowering food costs in Lagos or Accra beats most Series B SaaS markets. • Africa isn't one market: Payment rails are your entry strategy (e.g., telco rails in Kenya vs. fintech in Nigeria). • Income > Geography: A household's income level predicts its spending behavior far better than national borders. • Subscriptions fail: Payment timing must match income timing. Asset financing or harvest-cycle billing works better. • GDP sizing is flawed: Sizing Nigeria solely on dollar GDP ignores its massive $2.25T PPP-adjusted reality. The full paper includes 10 country profiles, opportunity maps, and 8 case studies. This is the intro to my ICM series, read the full paper below 👇🏽 drive.google.com/file/d/1cUo…

Few days ago, the SuperteamNG Bayelsa community convened to celebrating 3 years of @SuperteamNG fostering Solana's dominance in Nigeria & Africa at large. We raise a toast to the community, friendships, opportunities, and impact we've built together. Here's to many more years of growing the Solana ecosystem in Nigeria.

Happy 3rd Anniversary @SuperteamNG ❤️

Three years ago, many of us were outsiders looking into Web3. Today, we're builders, creators, contributors, founders, and friends connected by a community that gave us opportunities to learn, earn, and grow. Happy 3rd Anniversary, @SuperteamNG 🧵

My skincare order just got delivered—a major boost for my mental health.

I'm tired mehn.

Yesterday, from Lagos to Uyo, Enugu to Bauchi, members across 30 states came together to celebrate @SuperteamNG @ 3 🎂 Every cake represents a local community, friendships formed, careers launched, products built, and people who chose to show up and build something bigger than themselves. Three years of building. Three years of opportunities. Three years of proving that world-class talent exists in Africa. Grateful to everyone who has been part of this journey.

So Phoenix is still in private beta?

solana:zinc155BS4mSPk8GXQj4R5hkVDQXcW253pTYq5SGyfi is quietly becoming one of the biggest stories on Solana right now. In under two weeks it's pulled in $18M in deployed capital and generated $1.8M in fees, breaking into the top 3 Solana protocols by 24-hour revenue, numbers most projects don't hit in a year. Built on @Arcium confidential compute layer, @zinc_cash is proving that private proof-of-work mining on Solana isn't just a gimmick, it's a revenue machine. The privacy narrative is heating up, and ZINC is sitting right at the center of it. ⛏👷💎

3 years of impact. It took a village to get here and we do not take it for granted at all. This community has meant so much to us, our members, supporters and we are super grateful to everyone that has made this a home. Happy birthday to us 🎁🎂🎈

I can't remember when actually, but one of the first community calls I attended 2 years ago, @Harri_obi was the host and he was wearing a rainbow coloured wig filter 😂😂😂

One year ago, Sulaiman Adewale launched @usexara_ai , and nobody really knew what to make of it. A bank. Inside WhatsApp. No app, no interface, no stress, just type what you want and it happens. Send money. Pay a bill. Check your balance. Like texting, but your money moves. The idea didn't come from a pitch deck or an accelerator. It came from frustration. @__adewale has an eye defect. Screens with tiny text, complicated menus, multiple taps just to send ₦2,000, it was too much. So, he built the simplest version of banking he could imagine and put it where every Nigerian already is. WhatsApp. The app your grandma uses. The app the market woman uses. The app that runs on the cheapest phone, on the weakest network, in the most remote area. That WhatsApp. The first two weeks? ₦120 million processed. He kept building. By day 100, 22,000 people were using it. He kept building. By the time 2026 opened, Xara had crossed ₦5 billion in transactions, and people were already writing them off as a one-hit wonder. Then they hit ₦10 billion. Then 50,000 users. In between, Xara partnered with Solana to bring USDC and USDT transactions into the chat. They rebuilt the product twice. They launched Xara for Business. They linked up with Rubies Bank. And somewhere along the way, the product went viral enough to land @__adewale an offer from xAI, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company. One engineer. One personal problem. One chat window. ₦10 billion. The lesson isn't about fintech. It's about what happens when someone builds for a real problem they actually live with every day. Xara didn't disrupt anything. It just went where the people already were and made things easier. That's it. That's the whole strategy.

For most of my life, my scattered interests got treated as a flaw. Too many things. Can't pick a lane. Won't stay put. Execution just went to zero. Anyone can build anything now. So the only scarce thing left is taste, and taste isn't a depth game like everyone thinks. It's a breadth game.

the motion chain: Solana

🇳🇬 🇳🇬 🇳🇬 Three years ago, we started with a simple goal: make Solana accessible to builders in Nigeria. Today, SuperteamNG has grown into one of the most active Solana communities in the world, helping thousands of talents, founders, developers, designers, writers, and creators find opportunities, earn, build, and launch global products. To celebrate our 3rd anniversary, we're taking the celebration across the country with community meetups hosted by our members. Whether you've been with us since day one or you're just getting started, come celebrate the journey with us: 1. @Web3Geek01 - Adamawa luma.com/8tgnfy3n 2. @_jiibal  -  Gombe luma.com/6gwt9xb5 3. @callmeFeyi_ - Kwara luma.com/m136w2bg 4. @thejustinson - Edo luma.com/ntgsoit0 5. @iamphave - Kaduna luma.com/lnvzebn1 6. @sampang_tg - Plateau luma.com/7o9jkthb 7. @Michael_fide  - Ondo luma.com/ulp08cus 8. @CrypticPriest  - Cross River luma.com/y8v2094y 9. @crego55 - Kogi luma.com/i9fb1gu2 10. @queenexphil - Borno luma.com/klg0n5wi 11. @codewithmide - Akwa Ibom luma.com/6fqzr6n0 12. @sirbarna - Ogun luma.com/79q1hhm6 13. @_kamalkt - Bauchi luma.com/9zz9k6ip 14. @edafeafiemo - Delta luma.com/yc6nuooi 15. @imoncrypto - Kano luma.com/ddxqtssg 16. @CallMi_Alex - Ekiti luma.com/6ts1vg4i 17. @teeofkings - Imo luma.com/2zy045nn 18. @Gbreigns - Ebonyi luma.com/tf1agxa1 19. @Neekhole_ - Abia luma.com/uedoi1hy 20. @thisis_monarch - Lagos luma.com/awhlkzal 21. @vancube_2 - Enugu luma.com/p6lvprfu 22. @Atomictheory001 - Niger luma.com/b7pmgizv 23. @Hadeezarrh1 - Abuja luma.com/oir6s0rd 24. @talk_toeddie - Nasarawa luma.com/g9c7na1j 25. @Esamueltrades - OYO luma.com/b3t2wtj4 26. @goddesswriter1 - Rivers luma.com/b1dpk6il 27. @olydefi1 - Jigawa luma.com/p97zz322 28. @tiphann_yy - Anambra luma.com/ilfgpxzu 29. @cyptoonab - Osun luma.com/nveuei9a 30. @Outstandingvick - Bayelsa luma.com/9xth1ygg

If you're going to crash out about losing a bounty, at least let your submission be top-notch. Hoping your gutter-level submission would win is delusional.

Solana is for founders.

Hold up, so you think the project's intern commenting on your submission means your odds of winning are high?

Smart people are building on Solana