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Yoseph Ayele

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Yoseph Ayele

@yosephayele

Backing early stage startups @lavavc_ Building a Borderless Africa @borderlessaf Co-founded Global Impact Visa / EHF 🌍🇪🇹🇹🇿🇰🇪🇳🇿🇺🇸🇰🇷

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Yoseph Ayele
@yosephayele
May 13, 2025
Today I'm excited to officially announce LAVA - an early-stage fund backing exceptional founders building the financial plumbing and trust tools for the African market. My journey from @borderlessaf to magma and now LAVA has been guided by one conviction: Africa's unique market
Launching LAVA
From writing.lavavc.io
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Yoseph Ayele
@yosephayele
Nov 11, 2025
I’m off Telegram. Moving all communications to email and Signal (@signalapp). After 8 years of using @telegram, tens of thousands of chats and hundreds of dollars of Premium subscription fees, TG decided to freeze my account, completely out of the blue. Dozens of attempts
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Yoseph Ayele
@yosephayele
May 1, 2023
A big mistake the world is making is treating African countries as “developing markets” “Developing” assumes a known & predetermined destination, following a known linear path Africa is a frontier market Here is why: 1. Africa is going through major transformations, at the
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Yoseph Ayele
@yosephayele
Mar 10, 2023
Decentralization has a great product market fit in Africa. In Feb, I led a month-long learning trip to Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Zambia with @VitalikButerin @AyaMiyagotchi @technocrypto @lirazsiri @iamsonge and Vicki Here are some of my personal takeaways 👇
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Yoseph Ayele
@yosephayele
Nov 12, 2025
Replying to @durov
@durov thank you for addressing the issue 🙏 What’s the best way know exactly what the problem was / how to avoid it in the future? Happy to chat with support team directly about it.
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Yoseph Ayele
@yosephayele
Jul 24, 2023
Ethereum Layer 2s are coming to Africa! Following Vitalik's Africa trip, I'm excited to host Layer 2s in Nairobi 🇰🇪 and Lagos 🇳🇬 We have leaders from @arbitrum @Scroll_ZKP @ETHGlobal and supported by @optimismFND. Sign up here: lu.ma/borderless.afr…
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Yoseph Ayele
@yosephayele
Sep 23, 2023
Thrilled to announce magma: a founder residency for African builders in Web3! An initiative by Borderless Africa @borderlessaf
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Yoseph Ayele
@yosephayele
Mar 3, 2024
magma cohort 1 kicks off today 🌋 25 exceptional founders & builders from all over Africa + 10 global builders are coming together in Kenya. We’re spending two weeks IRL coordinating on roadmaps for an open, borderless, and permissionless financial system that works for the
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Yoseph Ayele
@yosephayele
Jul 15, 2025
I've been beating the drums about stablecoins in Africa for years. They've finally hit mainstream in the West! I'm releasing a 2-part series to look beyond the surface-level takes on why stablecoins thrive in Africa, and seek to understand the forces that led us there. Part I
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Yoseph Ayele
@yosephayele
Oct 18, 2022
The Web3 movement needs Africa to reach its full potential. It is positioned to be a "Plan A" for Africa's economic self-determination. Here is a new narrative I shared at @EFDevcon Bogota: youtu.be/9X6HqcuL2Zk Highlights 👇👇
Yoseph Ayele
@yosephayele
Sep 30, 2024
magma2 kicked off in Kenya today 🌋 24 founders and builders join the second cohort of the magma founder residency by @borderlessaf! Why? > To build Africa’s finance and trust onchain > To coordinate our roadmaps and increase the interoperability between what each of us is
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Yoseph Ayele
@yosephayele
Aug 5, 2025
Hot take: USD stablecoins' success in Africa might be crypto's biggest failure mode for the continent. Part I in the @lavavc_ series showed how stablecoins solved USD liquidity fragmentation. But they don't fix the core problem: Africa's ~$400B annual USD leakage. If crypto
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Yoseph Ayele
@yosephayele
Nov 7, 2024
Who from Africa is joining Devcon 2024? This will be the LARGEST African presence at a global Ethereum event, probably ever. All thanks to many community organizers across the continent, @EFDevcon team's effort with visa support + tickets, and many protocols' direct
GM Day 🌏🌍🌎 · Luma
From luma.com
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Yoseph Ayele
@yosephayele
Jul 12, 2024
Immigration is fundamentally broken. Those locked inside these gated countries are missing out on top global talent like @njokuScript and countless others. I’m in Brussels for #ETHCC and people asking me “I don’t see African builders in these conferences. Is there anyone
njokuscript.um
@njokuScript
Jul 9, 2024
Interact Fellowship - 2021 ⛔️ Paradigm Fellowship - 2022 ⛔️ Basecamp - 2024 ⛔️ Never able to attend anyone because I’m always getting denied an American visa. Countless meetings with investors getting cold because I couldn’t get into the US to take those meetings IRL. Latest
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