Daily Snapshot · Data through 29-Jul-2026 · Published 30-Jul-2026 05:21 UTC
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Why we’re building this.

Three people, three reasons, in their own words. Conviction lives here; the evidence lives in the Intelligence Feed, where every figure carries its method.

Mukhtar Yahaya
Mukhtar Yahaya
Founder · Data Analyst / Engineer

You cannot count what you cannot recognise

The figures quoted about this market come from frameworks built somewhere else, for somewhere else. The missing local context isn't a detail — it's the whole finding.

A model built abroad can see that value moved on a chain. It cannot see that one address belongs to a cash-out service paying into a bank account, that another is a treasury moving its own float between wallets it already owns, or that a stream of small transfers is a person rather than a bot.

Those distinctions aren't visible from the outside. They're learned venue by venue, by people who use these products and know what they are. So the work starts before the counting — and a large share of observed movement never survives it, because it was never retail activity in the first place.

We would rather be the source someone checks before deciding than the number someone quotes because it was the only one available.

@maybemukhtar
Moshood Alimi
Moshood Alimi
Co-founder · Software Engineer

Data, and then the part that makes it worth having

There's no shortage of on-chain data about Africa. There's a shortage of anyone able to say what it means.

Pulling a chain's transfer volume takes an afternoon. Working out how much of it was a real person moving real money, and which business they moved it through, is a different problem — and it's the one that actually blocks decisions.

That gap is what we build against. Not more charts, but the layer underneath them: the attribution that turns an anonymous address into a labelled business, and an interface that puts it in front of someone with a decision to make.

If we do it properly the visibility gap closes for everyone at once — the venue that finally sees its own position measured independently, the chain deciding where volume really settles, the journalist who needs a figure they can defend. That's a bigger prize than being right in private.

Olushola Yahaya
Olushola Yahaya
Co-founder · Data Scientist

Reporting what happened is the easy half

Data is only valuable when it leads to understanding. The gap between what a number says and what it means is where most analysis of this market quietly fails.

A headline volume can describe a thriving asset and still be close to meaningless, because it counts movement rather than use. Money circulating between wallets under common control is not the same thing as money changing hands, and a total cannot tell the two apart.

So we ask what the volume is, not just how large it is. Is this growth or rotation? Many people or a few? New users, or the same users doing more? Those questions have answers, and the answers are usually narrower and more useful than the headline.

This economy is being written about far more than it is being measured. We'd like the record of what actually happened, and why it mattered, to be one someone can check.

@le_magnifiq