🏠 Transforming affordable & green home loans in Africa
🦾 Solving old problems, with new technology
#Cardano
🌍 Unlocking Africa's 50 million housing shortage
📢 To celebrate our upcoming Token Sale we're hosting 5 GIVEAWAY events worth $8000 in EMP!
🎁 To enter our Twitter thread GIVEAWAY worth $1000 in EMP all you need to do is:
✅ Follow
@empowa_io
✅ Like
✅ Retweet
See thread for more info🧵👇🏽
#Cardano
#CardanoCommunity
#ADA
📢 To celebrate the upcoming Reserve $EMP Event, we will be hosting a Countdown GIVEAWAY worth $1000 in EMP!
🎁 To enter the Countdown GIVEAWAY all you need to do is:
✅ Follow
@empowa_io
✅ Like
✅ Retweet
👇🏽 You can register for our
#TokenSale
here:
🎊The official Cardano Summit NFT Collection will be delivered by.....
Empowa!
👏We are very excited to announce that
@empowa_io
will create the Summit NFTs for the theme Blockchain for Social Impact.
Stay tuned for more updates coming soon!
#NFT
#CardanoSummit2023
Empowa has partnered with
@WorldMobileTeam
to combat the housing crisis and bridge the digital divide in Mozambique 🏡🌍📡
👇🏽 Check out our blog to learn about some of the challenges and
#RealFi
opportunities which currently exist in Mozambique:
"
📣 In case you missed the announcement at the
#CardanoSummit2022
we are proud to announce an agreement has been signed with the local Mozambique municipality 🇲🇿 and the Dutch government 🇳🇱 to deliver 25 000 climate-smart homes🏡 in Beira, Mozambique.
Empowa x Djed 🏘🤝💸
Empowa will be looking at utilising the Djed Stablecoin as a means to transfer funds to our building partners across Africa. 🌍
Medium Article 👇
📢 $EMP tokens have been minted!
This marks a significant step on our journey of change - empowered by
#decentralisation
and a beautiful diverse community! Together we will achieve our goals! 🙌🏽
🏠 Building
🌍 Community
✊🏽 Impact
Learn more:
#RealFi
Empowa x MuesliSwap
The EMP token in now verified and in the featured page of
@MuesliSwapTeam
on the Cardano Mainnet! 🥳🥣
The first DEX to go live on Cardano Mainnet, will also be the first to list EMP 💫
Check it out -
Update the System🎥♻️🦾
Empowa was recently featured in
@coinbase
's video series focused on projects improving financial systems using blockchain. With the below video focused on the Affordable Housing market in Mozambique 👷🏘️🏗️
Full video ▶️🔗
📢 Milestone unlocked: Empowa Pay is LIVE on
#Cardano
! Watch us write our first tenant payment data on chain 🦾
With each transaction, we move a step closer to enabling 1 million African families to become owners of a climate-smart home by 2030! 🏠🌍
👉🏽
Here is a payment profile of one of our current African rent-to-own clients 🇲🇿🏠👩🏾🦱
It confirms what we already know at Empowa. People that would never qualify for a mortgage, because they lack proof of income, are able to pay for a quality home via the rent-to-own product! 📈…
2 DAYS TO GO!!! 😍⏳
🎟 Get an extra ticket to the Countdown GIVEAWAY worth $1000 in EMP, by following
@empowa_io
& retweeting 🎁
Thanks for helping to spread the word! 🙏🏽
👇🏽 Make sure to complete KYC so you're all ready to go! Register here
#ADA
#DeFi
📢 Announcement: Empowa Pay is levelling up with Hedera Hashgraph integration! 🤝 Enabling seamless recording of tenant payments in key markets across Africa. Our integration with Hedera accelerates traditional banking integration while maintaining Cardano's core role 🌍…
Expanding the Empowa Ecosystem 🏗️🏡
In the past 4 weeks, we have successfully onboarded service providers from South Africa, Uganda, Nigeria and Namibia. Increasing the amount of Rent-to-own data Empowa Pay is able to capture. 💱📜
Excited to team up with
@CardanoPress
for an NFT giveaway! 🤝🏽😍
🎁 Prizes:
- 8 CardanoPress Wapuus NFTs with the Empowa trait
- there will be 8 separate winners (1 NFT per winner)
👇🏽 How to enter:
- Follow both
@empowa_io
and
@CardanoPress
- Like the post
🗓️ Winners drawn…
Our upcoming rent-to-own launch in Kenya is part of a two phase plan 🏠🇰🇪
🌱 Phase 1 – Initial Launch:
The initial Kenyan launch will include two homes that are near completion and will be ready for occupancy in May of this year. The local Kenyan developer is BrownCap.
📈 Phase…
Empowa x SundaeSwap
We will be providing liquidity to the
@SundaeSwap
DEX for the ADA/EMP pair, tomorrow on Sunday 17th April 🍨😋
Here's the link to Sundae:
Empowa Pay has successfully tracked $7,853,000 in total home value over the past six months 🏡📊
The Empowa Pay solution revolutionises the management of rent-to-own contracts, providing developers with a tool to manage their cashflows, streamline processes and enhance…
The Empowa &
@WorldMobileTeam
Seed NFT is the first
#NFT
to enable affordable housing & decentralised internet connectivity in Mozambique, Africa! ✊🏽
Proud to be contributing to the
#Cardano
mission to make The World work better for all! 🌍🏡📡
👉🏽
#CNFT
Our Token Sale is now complete! ✅🏠🌍
Big love to everyone who participated!🧡
We're proud to have achieved our community defined goal of running a token sale with equitable access (>3400 wallets purchasing EMP), while also raising enough $ADA to build out the Empowa Platform!
Empowa has entered into a strategic partnership with EY Parthenon (East Africa) to bolster our affordable housing instalment sales program 🌍🏠
EY will provide expertise in legal, financial, and market considerations, while Empowa will contribute technological infrastructure and…
Over the past six months, the number of homes registered on Empowa Pay has increased by 613% 🏡📈
Empowa acknowledges the pivotal role that access to relevant and trustworthy data plays in facilitating investments in affordable housing within developing markets 📊
By leveraging…
✅ Empowa Impact 2022
Thank you to our community for making this impact a reality! Appreciate all of your support! 🙏🏽🏠🌍
To learn more about our impact, please check out the thread below with links to related videos, articles and more 🧵👇🏽
#BuildingonCardano
#Cardano
#RealFi
Empowa Pay Expansion! 📱🏠📈
The data on Empowa Pay continues to expand, with 320 properties now being tracked, representing a remarkable total value of $8,538,000 USD 📊
Notably, we’ve observed an impressive 9% increase in tracked properties over the past three months. The…
$EMP tokens earned during the ISPO will be claimable on DripDropz (
@contactdrip
) 💧🥰
Starting on the 15th April, those who participate in the Empowa ISPO will be able to claim a portion of their allocation! Stay tuned for a blogpost later today with the details 🗒️
🎁 Giveaway 1 - Twitter Thread Giveaway 🧵
⚙️ How it works:
Retweet the main/first post in this Twitter thread (see image)
💰 Prize Pool:
$1000 in $EMP will be shared among 5 winners
🗓 Duration:
Ends on Sun 9 Jan
Empowa – The first RealFi (
#DeFi
) property platform on Cardano that combines emerging technology, sustainable building and decentralised financial inclusion 🏠🌍✊🏽
#BuildingonCardano
#Cardano
#RealFi
Expanding the Empowa Ecosystem 🌐🏡
Over the past 2 months, we've onboarded new service providers from Zimbabwe, The Gambia, Morocco, Kenya, and Seychelles onto Empowa Pay. This increases both the quantity and diversity of rent-to-own data captured through our platform 📈📱
🏡…
📝 Empowa’s Integration with
@hedera
: A Strategic Move for Empowa Pay 📱🏡
🔗 Dive into the full article to see how Empowa Pay is transforming the real estate landscape with Distributed Ledger Technology:
Key Highlights:
⏰ Timeous Data for Informed…
We are Empowa - The first
#RealFi
property platform on
#Cardano
that combines emerging technology, sustainable building and decentralized financial inclusion! 🏠🌍🙌🏽
Want to join our journey? You can learn more about Empowa and our ISPO below ☺️👇🏽
1 DAY TO GO!!! ⏳
🎟 Last chance to grab an extra ticket to the Countdown GIVEAWAY worth $1000 in EMP, by following
@empowa_io
& retweeting 🎁
✅ Make sure to complete KYC so you're all ready to go! You still have time!! ⏰
👇🏽 Register here:
#ADA
#DeFi
"We’re
#Cardano
, and if you’ll permit us, we would like to change the world." -
@IOHK_Charles
🤝🌍
Check out the Empowa Coinbase video in the below thread 👇
1/ Mortgage rates in Mozambique have reached as high as 22%. Much of the population along the coastline can’t get a loan to buy a house, and shelters built by hand get destroyed by cyclones.
A quick look at how crypto can update the system to help get people in safer homes.🧵
Empowa Pay 🤳🏘️
This application will be the tenant and housing developer facing interface of the Empowa platform. It will enable tracking and monitoring the health of leases, projects and developers. 🧮📊💸
Unlocking Africa's trillion-dollar housing market with distributed ledger technology and data to address the 50 million housing backlog 🏡⛓️
Challenge 🔑
Often in emerging markets, affordable housing investments face barriers due to informal incomes and inadequate credit…
📣 We're excited to announce the launch of the Empowa ISPO today on World Habitat Day! A day which is recognised by the United Nations & promotes the basic right to adequate housing for all! 🏠🌍🙌🏽
Learn how to participate in our ISPO 👇🏽
#Cardano
#RealFi
Rent-to-own Payment Profile 📊
All Empowa enabled rent-to-own clients (including this client) were initially rejected by the bank for a traditional mortgage...
In collaboration with local partners, our innovative rent-to-own technology helps informal workers to:
🔓 Unlock…
🔦 Empowa Pay Developer Spotlight: Tigere Housing
Zimbabwean developer Tigere Housing is one of a growing list of developers leveraging Empowa Pay - our tailored all inclusive system designed for financial institutions, housing developers and property managers to offer…
Benefits of Empowa Pay 💸🏡
Web & Mobile Application 🤳
Record & Verify Housing Payments ✅
Reduced Costs 🔻
Facilitates Homeownership 👪
All done through Blockchain Technology 🦾
#Cardano
Affordable, Sustainable and Climate Resilient housing was only accessible to 3% of the population of Mozambique 🇲🇿📉
With the Empowa World Mobile Seed NFT, this accessibility was increased to over 60% of the Mozambican population 🏡📈🤝
The community defined success for our
#TokenSale
was to provide equitable access to as many people as possible, regardless of how much they could afford.
We're proud to have achieved this during Rounds 1-3, as >3000 wallets have purchased EMP, some for as little as $7.50 🙏🏽🌍🏠
Woo-hoo! Our Fund11 proposal got funded! 🎉✅🗳️
A big thank you to the
#CardanoCommunity
for your votes! We appreciate your support! 🙏🏽🧡
🔗 You can learn more about the proposal here:
#ProjectCatalyst
#Cardano
Our Co-Founder Glen has been invited to present at The World Bank's 9th Global Affordable Housing Conference in Washington D.C. 🌍🏡
Glen will do an Empowa presentation as well as join a panel on May 31st 🗓️
💻Learn more and Register for livestream:
📍LOCATION: Massingir, Mozambique 🇲🇿
✅ STATUS: Aerostat LAUNCHED 🎈
We're delighted to announce the successful launch of the first commercial telecoms aerostat in
#Africa
.
The launch sets the foundation for the commercial deployment of decentralised aerostats across the…
Women make up half the world's population, and half of its economic potential. Yet they are far less likely than men to own a home...
We want to change that by empowering women & increasing the number of women leasing a home through our platform! 🏠🌍✊🏽
#InternationalWomensDay
Some upcoming key dates for our $EMP token 🗓🚀
🪙 28 February - Final week of our
#Tokensale
begins tomorrow and ends 6th March
🌱 15 March - $EMP Token Generation Event (TGE)
💰 15 April - The first token claim event for Token Sale and ISPO participants
#Cardano
#DeFi
Did you know the Empowa &
@WorldMobileTeam
Seed NFT is set to grow the mortgage market in Mozambique by 5%🏠🌍📈
Before Empowa there were approx. 600 mortgages in a country of ~31 million people..with one
#NFT
collection we've increased that by 30 homes via our
#leasetoown
model
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT: Our Founding Community NFTs are officially sold out! 😍🎊💃🏽
A big thank you again to the Empowa community for all of your support so far!... We are only getting started!!! 🙌🏽🌍🏠
🧡 Join our journey
#Cardano
#CNFT
What is Empowa Pay? 🤳 🏡
1/ Empowa Pay, is an app for tracking and recording lease payments for Empowa financed homes. By leveraging the Cardano blockchain to record lease payments, it will build up a repayment history for each tenant. ⏳⛓️
Footage from
@CasaReal13
showcasing Africa's first affordable hemp home! 🌿🌍🏡
♻️ Why build in Hempcrete?
- Produced in a block form = acceptable form
- Much lower carbon emission than concrete
- CONCRETE: around 327 kg CO2-eq/m3
- HEMPCRETE: around -470 kg CO2…
Nice work to
@CasaReal13
, our amazing delivery partner in Beira, Mozambique! 🇲🇿
They��re pioneering an incremental building model that empowers low-income families with access to a basic starter home, while offering the option to extend their home as their financial situation…
Here is another payment profile for an Empowa rent-to-own client. 🇲🇿👨🏾
All our clients were initially rejected by the bank for a traditional mortgage before signing up for our rent-to-own offering.
9 months in we are already seeing this client and many others making meaningful…
Launch of Lease-to-Own in Mozambique 🇲🇿
Empowa has enabled
@CasaReal13
to offer a lease-to-own option for purchase at affordable rates and as expected the response is overwhelming!
The offer is fully subscribed & more than 30 families have applied & been approved! 🌍🙏🏽
#RealFi
Very proud to have been voted the winner of the Blockchain For Good Award! 🏆🏠🌍
Thanks everyone in the
#CardanoCommunity
who has supported our journey so far! Means the world to us! 🙏🏽
The great thing is...we are only getting started! ✊🏽
Much love,
Empowa 🧡
#Cardano
#ReaFi
Increasing access to safe & affordable housing 🔓 🏘
Increasing the transparency through applications like Empowa Pay and leveraging Rent-to-Own contracts we can improve the accessibility of Home Loans. 👨👩👧👦
Empowa Ecosystem 🌍🏡
$EMP will be used as collateral for SDRI's, which directly finance housing. By using Empowa Pay, investors will be able to view the health of the loans linked to the SDRI's while service providers and clients can monitor their repayments 💱🗓️👨👩👧👦
Collateral NFTs provide an opportunity for $EMP token holders to support housing developers in meeting their collateral obligations while also earning $EMP rewards in the process 🏠
This novel approach to collateralization, which leverages our $EMP token, ensures our ability to…
We're excited to announce that in collaboration with
@hlabs_tech
we have implemented an Empowa ecosystem NFT marketplace 🏡🚀🌐
🔁 This marketplace will allow community members to trade Empowa Community NFTs using $EMP
🔗 A public testnet version of the marketplace is available…
Why are we building Empowa Pay? 🤳🏡💱
The app will record tenant and housing developer payments on the
#Cardano
blockchain. Later versions will integrate DID's in order to give tenants the ability to use their lease repayments history to access other forms of credit 📊💳
We are Empowa 🧡🏡🌱
Utilising new technologies and thinking, Empowa is an ecosystem providing access to affordable and green home loans for the under banked in Africa.🌍
Visit the website 👉
“We are
#Cardano
,
and if you'll permit us, we would like to change the world.” ✊🏽🌍
– Charles Hoskinson (
@IOHK_Charles
)
Very proud to be a part of this movement! Join our journey 👇🏽🌱🏠
Telegram:
Discord:
#BuildingonCardano
#ADA
On the Ground Journal Thread - by Sil, a dual degree Master's Student from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands who is interning for us at Casa Real🇲🇿📝
“Today I went with Richard to Praia Nova, a beach slum. And to another neighbourhood further out of town.
🏠📢 Our latest community update shines a spotlight on the progress of our affordable housing project. 🏡
🌟 Learn about the milestones achieved, the impact it's making, and how we're making homeownership dreams come true. 🤝
🔗 Dive into the details:
Housing is a fundamental building block for wealth creation, yet in Africa there is currently a backlog of 50 million homes! 📈🏠
We at Empowa are seeking to address this problem by making house ownership more available through leveraging
#NFTs
and
#DeFi
! 🌍✊🏽
#RealFi
Enabling Climate Resilient Housing 💪
Empowa connects climate vulnerable communities with quality housing which can withstand the effects of natural disasters like cyclones. 🌍🏘️🌀
The 1st family to be moving in to 1 of the
#Catalyst
Funded homes describe what it means to them to be moving in to their own home! 🏡🧡
Full interview available below 👇
#RealFi
#Cardano
#ProjectCatalyst
Empowa is using NFTs on
#Cardano
to finance affordable housing, which serve as a foundation for impact on people's lives at scale 👪🏡♻️
From increasing Gender Equality and Economic Growth to improving access to Clean Energy and Water, this impact is already visible🏙️🚰🤝
Big shoutout to our
#CardanoSummit2023
NFT minting partner
@nmkr_io
for removing the minting fees on their platform for this collection! 🤝
This allows for more money raised to go towards enabling affordable housing in Africa 🏡📈
👇🏽 Learn more and mint an Official Cardano…
"We're
#Cardano
,
and if you'll permit us,
we would like to CHANGE THE WORLD."
-
@IOHK_Charles
Proud to be a part of the
#CardanoCommunity
and doing our part to try and change the world through enabling
#affordablehousing
in Africa! 🏡🌍✊🏽
Why do you love Cardano? 🤔💬👇🏽
🎁 Giveaway 5 - $EMP Token Sale Countdown Giveaway
⚙️ How it works:
Follow
@empowa_io
and retweet the 3 countdown posts in the lead up to the Reserve EMP event (Jan 22, 12pm UTC)
💰 Prize Pool:
$1000 in $EMP will be shared among 5 winners
🗓 Duration:
See image
We just reached 10,000 Twitter followers! Woo hoo! 💃🏽🚀🏠
Sending love to our amazing community for all of your support! 🙏🏽🧡
ps. Our Empowa
#tokensale
ends on Sunday 6th of March at 12pm UTC (12h from now) ⏳
👇🏽 Register & purchase EMP:
#Cardano
#ADA
The first
#CardanoSummit
community-led event is live and the Summit NFTs are now available! 🔔👀
👇🏽 Mint a pack of 5 NFTs here for 50 ADA:
🏠 Impact:
- Funds raised will enable housing in Africa
✈️ Prizes:
- Win a trip to the next Summit up to $5000 +…
We recently uploaded the first tenant payment data to the Cardano Blockchain through the Empowa Pay Application 🏘️🧾🌍
You can watch the below video of when the the data was added to the chain ▶️👇
Announcement: Nigerian Affordable Housing Partner ‼️ 🇳🇬🤝
The Affordable Housing Company(TAHCo) has partnered with Empowa in order to finance affordable housing developments in Nigeria. 🏘️🏗️
Learn more about TAHCo on the most recent Empowa podcast 👇▶️
Empowa's Journey
#BuildingonCardano
🏗️🏡
Our design for this years
#CardanoSummit
2023 NFT draws inspiration from the Cardano Roadmap Phases 🗺️
The collection embodies not just Empowa's unique journey, but is intended to symbolise the diversity of people and projects…
More than 80% of income in Africa comes from informal sources. Without formal proof of income, many are excluded from traditional mortgage opportunities 📉
Investing in rent-to-own solutions offers an alternative and inclusive approach to affordable and green home financing,…
Empowa redesigned financial systems to connect financially excluded people to affordable and climate proof housing 🏡🌀
Empowa's rent-to-own solution, built on blockchain technology, unlocks the informal income from working families so they can access affordable,…
Empowa is the first
#RealFi
property platform on
#Cardano
that combines emerging technology, sustainable building & decentralized financial inclusion! 🌍🏠🙏🏽
Stake your $ADA in our ISPO and be the first to receive the EMP token 👇🏽
Enabling Financial Inclusion on
#Cardano
🌍🏦
Empowa shares
@IOHK_Charles
vision to use the Cardano blockchain to enable financial inclusion. By recording lease payments on-chain, tenants will be able to leverage their payment history using their Digital Identity 🧮🪪💸
A short video of one of the families who have recently moved into an Empowa financed home! 🏠🌍✊🏽
#RealFi
We'll be sharing more
#impact
content at our Impact Insights Event on Sep 17 🗓
This event will be exclusively for FC NFT & Seed
#NFT
Holders - stay tuned for more info! 👀
Hi
@CoinMarketCap
we'd like to register 1 user to manage our self reporting dashboard there should be 1 user signed up with an
@empowa
.io email address.
Earn with Impact through Empowa 🤲🏡
The backlog of homes in Africa is estimated to be over 50 million. This is an enormous hole in the market that TradFi is failing to address. Using
#Cardano
we trying to tackle this massive challenge!
Join our Journey:
Two Legendary
#CardanoSummit
World NFTs have been minted so far! 🌐😍
For those who don't know - holders of the Virtual World NFT will be entered into a draw for a series of prizes sponsored by Empowa,
@nmkr_io
and
@Cardano_CF
(check the link below for more info!) 👀
🏆 First…
2 million $EMP tokens sold in 48! 🎉🚀💃🏽
The Empowa
#TokenSale
consists of 4 rounds, so if you haven't already, new users can still register, complete KYC & reserve EMP for each round! ✅
👇🏽 You can learn more and register here:
#Cardano
#ADA
#RealFi