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Founder and CEO of BawaEX, a digital-asset and Web3 payments platform based in Niamey, Niger. BawaEX lets people and businesses in West Africa buy, hold and move stablecoins (USDT) with local rails: Mobile Money, MyNita and AmanaTa, plus B-Pay for merchants and a payments API for companies.

We also run NigerChain, a document-verification service that anchors diplomas, certificates and land titles on BNB Chain and Bitcoin, and BawaEX Academy, which trains students, professionals and institutions on blockchain, digital assets and online security.

Background: studies at Swiss UMEF University and Sakarya University (Turkey). Languages: French, English.

Open to partnerships, advisory and speaking opportunities around Web3 payments, stablecoin adoption and blockchain for public services in French-speaking Africa.