Project Clusters
Text fields from team registrations were consolidated and converted into semantic embeddings. These embeddings were clustered to identify natural groupings of projects based on similarity, and clusters were labeled to represent distinct cluster themes. Each project was then assigned weighted membership across these categories, allowing projects to reflect multiple relevant domains rather than a single label. The resulting dataset enables exploration and visualization of how projects relate across different thematic dimensions and perspectives.
This particular analysis was conducted on February 3rd, 2026, using N=15 as the number of clusters to aim for. Variations in parameters may yield different results. Problem statements are presented alongside correlation scores for further interpretation.
| Team Name | Hub | Problem statement | Correlation |
|---|---|---|---|
| NexTrend Hub — Lagos | Seed phrase loss is a critical flaw, causing irreversible asset loss and breaking crypto's core promise of secure ownership. | 7.8% | |
| DirectEd Abuja Hub — Abuja, Nigeria | A "Trust Deficit" stifles Nigerian research. Donors withhold funds due to lack of transparency, wasting the potential of a generation of innovators. | 7.8% | |
| NexTrend Hub — Lagos | Nigeria has vast skilled talent yet high unemployment. The issue is not ability, but a lack of access, visibility, and structured opportunity. | 9.6% | |
| NexTrend Hub — Lagos | Bridging Nigeria's $32bn SME gap via digital ledgers transforms 40M invisible traders into a formal, globally investible asset class. | 9.3% | |
| DirectEd Ethiopia Hub — Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | People repeatedly share personal data across platforms, risking misuse and breaches. A secure, user-controlled digital identity system is needed | 8.5% | |
| NexTrend Hub — Lagos | Ghjjjjjbvjill jkjkkjjjsdu juju ghje fax ghj. Guygfg gun. Hi viiiiirresvjv nolgg if cal | 49.4% | |
| DirectEd Ethiopia Hub — Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | he supply chain "data black hole" hides Ethiopian farmers, blocking them from proving crop quality and earning fair, premium income. | 8.0% | |
| Nextchain — Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Imani turns verified sustainable farming into on-chain reputation for farmers to access green credit. | 8.1% | |
| Nextchain — Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Africa’s athletic records and rewards are fragmented & offline Cardano can enable transparent, verifiable athlete identity, results, and recognition. | 7.8% | |
| NexTrend Hub — Lagos | Nigerian university students face unresolved infrastructure and welfare issues due to poor visibility, weak communication, and lack of accountability. | 9.2% | |
| NexTrend Hub — Lagos | Lack of simple, verifiable farm data recording and sharing hinders trust among farmers,NGOs, buyers, lenders, limiting funding and sound decisions. | 8.3% | |
| DirectEd Ethiopia Hub — Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Many youth-run businesses begin with hope but fail to grow because they lack shared customers, collaboration, and affordable capital. | 9.0% | |
| DirectEd Abuja Hub — Abuja, Nigeria | Rural farmers have real identities but fragile paper. Urban-style documentation excludes them, while trusted community validation is ignored. | 8.5% | |
| Nextchain — Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Potential statements We are a dreamer team to make Ethiopian web3 great and the future | 10.3% | |
| DirectEd Abuja Hub — Abuja, Nigeria | Our solution solves car breakdown issues, thereby connecting drivers with nearest, skilled and trusted mechanics to get it fixed. | 12.0% | |
| DirectEd Abuja Hub — Abuja, Nigeria | Waste material value are lost to dumps and illegal sites. Informal collectors work daily but have no proof of work for banks. We bring accountability. | 8.4% | |
| DirectEd Ethiopia Hub — Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | The Gadaa Protocol aims to provide accessible, accountable, and culturally legitimate justice for the digital economy. | 7.8% | |
| NexTrend Hub — Lagos | Nigeria’s informal economy >57% GDP, yet millions lack digital ID, credit, or transparent aid. Cash systems cause leakage & exclusion. | 7.8% | |
| DirectEd Ethiopia Hub — Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Our project tackles unsafe, fraudulent access to prescription drugs, ensuring prescriptions are authentic and accountable from doctor to pharmacy. | 8.2% | |
| DirectEd Ethiopia Hub — Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Medical records don’t move with patients, causing lost data, repeated tests, delayed care, and wasted time for doctors and hospitals. | 8.5% | |
| DirectEd Abuja Hub — Abuja, Nigeria | The project tackles the lack of a secure, verifiable, and user-controlled system for personal health records. | 8.1% | |
| DirectEd Abuja Hub — Abuja, Nigeria | Conflict between enforcement and road users causes daily accidents, injury, and lost livelihoods. AutoFy digitizes road governance on Cardano. | 8.0% | |
| DirectEd x Umurava Rwanda Hub — Kigali, Rwanda | African remittances could become instant and affordable by bridging mobile money systems through blockchain settlement. | 8.5% | |
| DirectEd x Umurava Rwanda Hub — Kigali, Rwanda | Rwanda battles credential fraud/delays, forgeries, SACCO losses (57%), unprotected informal lending. | 7.9% | |
| DirectEd x Umurava Rwanda Hub — Kigali, Rwanda | Empowering women, teen mothers, and low-income families to save, share, and access funds securely while staying compliant and Secured. | 7.7% | |
| DirectEd Abuja Hub — Abuja, Nigeria | Students learn without rewards or access. In Nigeria, exam failures persist due to cost and poor prep. Blockchain can make learning rewarding. | 9.5% | |
| DirectEd x Umurava Rwanda Hub — Kigali, Rwanda | There is potential to design a trusted digital rental solution that replaces informal agreements with secure, transparent records and protected paymen | 7.9% | |
| Nextchain — Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Ethiopia’s job market lacks digital trust, skills and credentials are hard to verify, slowing hiring and increasing fraud. | 8.9% | |
| DirectEd Ethiopia Hub — Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Freelancers work hard and win jobs, but getting paid is slow, costly, or impossible, pushing talent behind because of where they live. | 7.9% | |
| DirectEd Abuja Hub — Abuja, Nigeria | Fragmented healthcare data in Nigeria causes errors, fraud, and delays; MEDBLOCK enables secure, interoperable, patient-controlled EMRs. | 7.7% | |
| DirectEd Abuja Hub — Abuja, Nigeria | Millions learn & teach online without identity, receipts, or accountability, we're ripe for a trust layer; escrow and reputation without slowing them. | 9.1% | |
| Project Genius — Zaria | Using Cardano to create a verifiable environmental mirror for Zaria, making pollution visible to drive behavioural change and attract climate capital | 10.8% | |
| DirectEd x Umurava Rwanda Hub — Kigali, Rwanda | Opportunity to use Cardano to stop counterfeit medicines with low-cost, tamper-proof supply chain verification for Africa’s consumers and regulators. | 9.2% | |
| DirectEd x Umurava Rwanda Hub — Kigali, Rwanda | Evidence gets lost or tampered, fear of reporting, lack of trust in the system, time sensitive is lost, risk from public sharing on social media | 9.5% | |
| DirectEd Abuja Hub — Abuja, Nigeria | Aid delivery in Nigeria loses up to 30% to opacity; Aidchain can make funding and impact transparent, traceable, and verifiable end-to-end. | 7.9% | |
| Project Genius — Zaria | efeffevrvrtbtrbbjhtvbihb bruo bhrb brhb hbu | 36.1% | |
| DirectEd Abuja Hub — Abuja, Nigeria | Nigeria faces a growing risk of fake medicines, creating an urgent need for safe, verifiable access to genuine drugs. | 8.8% | |
| Project Genius — Zaria | Campus commerce suffers from low trust and visibility. We build a shared trust layer that revives the post office and strengthens student trade. | 7.9% | |
| NexTrend Hub — Lagos | Ratify replaces blind faith with code. Smart contract escrows eliminate fraud, unlocking safe capital for verified regenerative projects. | 7.7% | |
| Project Genius — Zaria | Although grid infrastructure exists, electricity supply is often available only at night for short periods and with low current. | 8.3% | |
| DirectEd Ethiopia Hub — Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Saba uses Cardano to link verified weavers with buyers, guaranteeing authenticity, fair income, and heritage preservation through blockchain. | 8.9% | |
| Project Genius — Zaria | In Zaria, academic history is fragile locked in school silos, hard to verify, and rarely owned by the student. | 8.5% | |
| Kwang Tech — Dschang, West Region, Cameroon | The lack of proper digital secured infrastructures, complex verification systems and widespread fraud compromises public trust in official documents | 7.7% | |
| Project Genius — Zaria | The community faces a severe crisis due to improper waste disposal and pollution. Our project addresses those challenges caused by unmanaged wastes. | 10.2% | |
| DirectEd x Umurava Rwanda Hub — Kigali, Rwanda | Coffee & tea supply chains lack transparency, harming farmers and trust; consumers and brands need secure, end-to-end traceability. | 8.5% | |
| Project Genius — Zaria | Millions of people trading digitally lack protection. The opportunity is to make everyday mobile payments safe without smartphones. | 8.0% | |
| Kwang Tech — Dschang, West Region, Cameroon | African fabric has lost its cultural meaning, replaced by imported textiles without symbolism. Its language and identity must be restored. | 9.8% | |
| Project Genius — Zaria | We see the potential to unlock a $4.5 Trillion hidden economy in Zaria. | 10.3% | |
| Project Genius — Zaria | Zaria faces digital exclusion from rigid, repeated KYC. Credence combines KYC with community trust to make identity reusable across platforms. | 7.8% | |
| NexTrend Hub — Lagos | Nigeria’s financial institutions lack tamper-proof internal accountability, allowing insider fraud to persist and silently erode trust. | 7.7% | |
| Kwang Tech — Dschang, West Region, Cameroon | Limited access to clean water in Dschang: need for an interactive map to locate sources and improve water management. | 9.6% | |
| Kwang Tech — Dschang, West Region, Cameroon | MvetQuest lets African youth reclaim heritage: explore real sites, collect NFTs, and build a vibrant metaverse celebrating local culture. | 8.1% | |
| Project Genius — Zaria | Good candidates are failing interviews because they lack communication confidence, not technical skill. Existing preparation arent sufficient. | 8.0% | |
| Project Genius — Zaria | Nigerian Student Housing fix, Blockchain for secure, agent-free booking, ensuring financial, emotional, and privacy stability for 65\%+ students. | 7.9% | |
| Project Genius — Zaria | Academic and community environments have untapped potential to recognize real participation, but lack reliable systems to capture and verify efforts. | 8.3% | |
| Kwang Tech — Dschang, West Region, Cameroon | Africa's colonial education ignores indigenous knowledge & languages, disconnecting us from culture, environment & innovation. | 9.3% | |
| DirectEd Ethiopia Hub — Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Aid in displacement zones fails from lack of transparency and verifiable records, causing exclusion, false blame, and eroded trust. | 8.4% | |
| DirectEd x Umurava Rwanda Hub — Kigali, Rwanda | Community savings groups in Africa have the potential to be secure and scalable, but lack transparency, trust, and reliable record keeping. | 10.0% | |
| Nextchain — Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Identity cards and certificates are easy to forge; Cardano enables secure, verifiable digital credentials for trusted identity and access. | 7.7% | |
| Nextchain — Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Synthetic fertilizers degrade soil and ecosystems; sustainable, traceable natural inputs can restore soil health and farmer productivity. | 8.1% | |
| Kwang Tech — Dschang, West Region, Cameroon | L'absence d’outils centralisés pour valoriser, préserver et faciliter l’accès à la culture, au tourisme et à la mémoire locale. | 8.6% | |
| Nextchain — Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | AI characters are controlled by platforms, not users. NFTs enable true ownership, transferability, and long-term digital value for creators and buyers | 7.7% | |
| DirectEd x Umurava Rwanda Hub — Kigali, Rwanda | Opportunity to use Cardano to stop counterfeit medicines with low-cost, tamper-proof supply chain verification for Africa’s consumers and regulators. | 9.2% | |
| Kwang Tech — Dschang, West Region, Cameroon | African remittances cost 12%, take days, and fund nothing beyond the recipient—missing the chance to regenerate communities back home. | 8.8% | |
| Nextchain — Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Turning Web3 education into verifiable, learn-to-earn pathways that connect Ethiopian talent to real opportunities on Cardano. | 9.4% | |
| Kwang Tech — Dschang, West Region, Cameroon | Unpredictable moto-taxi prices, lack of papers leading to corruption; lack of proper syndicates makes transportation in rural areas a risky gamble. | 10.7% | |
| DirectEd Ethiopia Hub — Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Lack of transparency in the agricultural supply chain makes it hard to verify product origin, quality, and trust from farmer to consumer. | 9.4% | |
| NexTrend Hub — Lagos | Informal waste collectors face delayed payments, while households struggle to connect with recyclers leading to lost income & environmental waste. | 9.2% | |
| Goma Hub — Goma, North Kivu, DR Congo | Les documents numériques sont facilement falsifiés ; ProofChain utilise la blockchain pour une vérification sécurisée et immuable. | 8.1% | |
| NexTrend Hub — Lagos | Accessibility and inclusion for special needs students in Nigeria are nearly nonexistent in mainstream education and we want to change this. | 9.4% | |
| DirectEd Abuja Hub — Abuja, Nigeria | Cardano offers secure, low-cost infrastructure for payments, DeFi, but everyday users struggle to access these capabilities in intuitive ways | 8.1% | |
| Northbits Solution — Tamale | Poultry hatcheries in Tamale rely on manual records for incubation and chick delivery, causing errors, low transparency, and poor origin checks. | 8.5% | |
| DirectEd Ethiopia Hub — Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Farmers lack transparent product tracking, causing inefficiencies and lower trust; AgriTrace can improve traceability and supply chains. | 8.8% | |
| NexTrend Hub — Lagos | High data costs block education; LearnBuddy brings educational skills to WhatsApp, turning any basic phone into a low-data classroom for Nigerians. | 9.6% | |
| Nextchain — Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Web2 platforms disempower movie, music, book, and NFT creators with opaque revenue and no true ownership, stifling their art and income. | 8.9% | |
| Northbits Solution — Tamale | Traditional certificate verification system remains a challenge, beside the slow process involve in issuing it, fake certificates is on the raise | 8.7% | |
| DirectEd x Umurava Rwanda Hub — Kigali, Rwanda | Safe-Save fixes mismanagement and lack of transparency in ibimina by using Cardano smart contracts to securely track savings and loans. | 8.0% | |
| Inkuba Hub — Bobo Dioulasso | Frequent outages persist in Burkina Faso while surplus solar energy is wasted, revealing the need for a decentralized way to share and sell power. | 8.4% | |
| Inkuba Hub — Bobo Dioulasso | En zones rurales, l’aide manque de transparence et de traçabilité, causant fraude, retards et exclusion des populations les plus vulnérables. | 9.0% | |
| Inkuba Hub — Bobo Dioulasso | Prototype deployment and join the projet to the different structures of gouvernement | 8.2% | |
| Inkuba Hub — Bobo Dioulasso | Bring cryptocurrency access to everyone, even without internet. | 8.5% | |
| Northbits Solution — Tamale | Blockchain can secure verification and ownership transfer history to restore trust in land governance in Tamale. | 7.9% | |
| Goma Hub — Goma, North Kivu, DR Congo | Digital commerce works, but without trust and transparency it limits local growth, seller credibility, safe adoption, and youth inclusion. | 8.3% | |
| Inkuba Hub — Bobo Dioulasso | Low-income people lack reliable mobility and depend on overcrowded, and inflexible bus systems. An affordable and flexible alternative is needed. | 7.7% | |
| No hub/ applying independently | Centralized healthcare in Kenya risks data breaches, slow payments, limited patient control, and inefficient insurance processes. | 8.6% | |
| Cardano Hub NBO — Nairobi, Kenya | Making cardano assets tradeale on the EVM and vice versa | 8.2% | |
| Nextchain — Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Smallholder farmers can unlock global trade by replacing middlemen with trusted, on-chain verification, payments, and product traceability. | 8.8% | |
| Cardano Hub NBO — Nairobi, Kenya | Unverifiable impact. Unsustainable volunteerism. Broken recycling chains. Fragmented community data. No on-chain environmental footprint. | 8.3% | |
| Cardano Hub NBO — Nairobi, Kenya | Kenya's gig workers can't prove skills or guarantee payment. 40% youth unemployment exists alongside desperate demand. Missing: trust infrastructure. | 8.5% | |
| Cardano Hub NBO — Nairobi, Kenya | Zao is a mobile-first exchange. It lets you buy and sell cryptocurrencies and, pay local businesses via PayBill or Till Number. | 9.9% | |
| Cardano Hub NBO — Nairobi, Kenya | Consumers overpay for fraudulent "organic" food with no proof. HarvestLedger provides QR-verified authenticity & direct farmer connection via Cardano. | 8.5% | |
| MIBT Cardano Zambia Hub — Kitwe | Village banking groups lack transparency, secure IDs, and digital records, exposing rural communities to fraud and exclusion from formal banking. | 8.8% | |
| Northbits Solution — Tamale | Unregulated mining in Tolon degrades land and water due to weak monitoring, poor data transparency, and limited community involvement. | 8.2% | |
| Cardano Hub NBO — Nairobi, Kenya | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GqYL0vIfjD-k_G-EOremXcroN3xuhxUCLmUIGxjIs6k/edit?usp=sharing | 7.9% | |
| Cardano Hub NBO — Nairobi, Kenya | There is potential to use blockchain as a public record of human effort and progress, enabling recognition systems that are durable, and user-owned. | 7.7% | |
| Cardano Hub NBO — Nairobi, Kenya | Truth, not media, anchored on-chain. HASHMARK makes real moments provable forever—unalterable, verifiable, and owned by the people. | 8.5% | |
| Goma Hub — Goma, North Kivu, DR Congo | ARDHI_chain Après une analyse approfondie nous avons identifié des problématiques cruciales dans le secteur de l'immobilier et du foncier. | 8.7% | |
| MIBT Cardano Zambia Hub — Kitwe | Millions in Africa lack affordable, trusted insurance. Web3 enables transparent,tokenized, incentive-driven protection for MSMEs,farmers & undeserved | 8.1% | |
| Goma Hub — Goma, North Kivu, DR Congo | Plateforme PoC : formation gratuite Cardano, certification blockchain, création de wallets ADA et base de jeunes talents pour l’écosystème CARDANO | 8.1% | |
| Goma Hub — Goma, North Kivu, DR Congo | En RDC, surtout à l’Est, le chômage massif des jeunes, aggravé par l’insécurité et le manque de financement, bloque l’avenir et menace la stabilité. | 8.4% | |
| Cardano Hub NBO — Nairobi, Kenya | Millions are locked out of investing & MSMEs lack fair credit. High minimums and collateral rules block capital from reaching real economic activity. | 12.1% | |
| Cardano Hub NBO — Nairobi, Kenya | Traditional Chama lose $200M+ annually to fraud & inefficiency. 65% fail to lack of transparency we solve this with blockchain. | 8.5% | |
| Cardano Hub NBO — Nairobi, Kenya | TrustChain brings transparent, on-chain donation and fund distribution, restoring donor trust and improving poverty alleviation in Nigeria. | 7.7% | |
| Goma Hub — Goma, North Kivu, DR Congo | The DRC's ag-potential is trapped by financial exclusion & zero traceability. MkulimaChain uses Cardano to bridge the gap for unbanked small farmers. | 8.9% | |
| MIBT Cardano Zambia Hub — Kitwe | Millions of Africans face barriers to digital participation due to language limitations in technology platforms. There is potential to use Web3 tools. | 8.0% | |
| MIBT Cardano Zambia Hub — Kitwe | Millions of artisanal and small-scale mining operations operate with limited access to reliable exploration data, safety tools. | 8.4% | |
| Cardano Hub NBO — Nairobi, Kenya | Millions are locked out of investing & MSMEs lack fair credit. High minimums and collateral rules block capital from reaching real economic activity. | 11.7% | |
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