Index Africa is uniquely positioned to be a bridge
between Africa’s rural people and a decentralised economy.
The Index Africa team has a rare combination of first world technical infrastructure capabilities
together with a long history of working in Africa’s most rural areas to bring access to world class digital training.
We see ourselves as a bridge between technical & operational skills with social change agents on the ground in Africa.
We see a huge future for web3 in Africa and with our various network partners
we are doing the work of creating transformative new models for society.
INDEX AFRICA DEVELOPMENT
R&D around feasibility of running an Indexing Node for the Graph Protocol on their Testnet.
October 2020
1st INDEXER NODE LAUNCHED
Activated the first Indexing Node in Africa with high performance raid servers.
March 2021
SUBGRAPH ALLOCATIONS DEPLOYED
Initiated ongoing subgraph allocations and creation of yield optimisation tooling for increased rewards query volume.
May 2021
ACTIVATING THE DEPHI MODEL
Pioneering a new model of Decentralised Philanthropy Index Africa contributed 10% of all quarterly Indexing returns to the Good Work Foundation as part of its ongoing commitment to supporting and empowering web3 education in Africa.
June 2021
CO-FOUNDED GRAPHRICA COMMUNITY
Graphrica is the home of the Graph in Africa, a discord community that advocates, onboards, advocates & web3 developers in subgraph development from across Africa and beyond.
July 2021
PLANNING OF WEB3 ACADEMY
In partnership with the Good Work Foundation, planning has begun for the creation of a web3 training academy to provide inclusive exposure and opportunites for graduates wishing to pursue this career path.
Nov 2021
EXTENDING DEPHI REACH
Index Africa’s model of DePhi was featured on the Graph Blog demonstrating the way in which web3 networks create value for the participants so that positive sum game innovations are able to emerge.
Apr 2022
TABLELAND TESTNET
Joined the Tableland testnet as a validator to explore indexing and validating this relational metadata protocol for EVM chains like Ethereum.
Sep 2022
MULTI-CHAIN INCENTIVISED PROGRAM
Joined the Graph Foundation’s Migration Infrastructure Providers (MIPS) to add support for new chains on the decentralized network, enabling migration of multi-chain subgraphs and supporting critical expansion of support for dapps.
Oct 2022
GRAPHRICA GRANT
Graphrica receives a grant from the Graph Foundation to further develop community building, developer training and dapp creation for the benefit of the network.
July 2023
ARBITRUM L2 MIGRATION
Index Africa succesfully migrates its Indexer operations from to the Arbitrum L2 network offering fast performance and lower transaction costs for delegators.
Dec 2023
MAGMA FELLOWSHIP
Index Africa joins the Magma Fellowship in Kenya, a two-week in-person residency for Africa’s top founders in the web3 space. The vision behind magma is to build stronger coordination amongst African founders, and bring the best of the global talent in crypto to the continent.