AfriGuild

AfriGuild, formed in Nigeria in 2021 and organised as a DAO, was later renamed Awujo. The mechanical pain point it targets is that African players who want to join play-to-earn games must supply two scarce things at once: the capital to buy a game NFT, and the playing time needed to develop it, which a single person can rarely provide.

The guild pools players' NFT assets and accounts and schedules them centrally, so people without capital enter as participants borrowing assets, and output is split between the asset owner and the participant under rules agreed in advance. It also aggregates several games and builds community across social and offline channels, with a presence in multiple Nigerian cities. It is positioned as a Web3 gaming access guild for African players, counted within the Cardano ecosystem, with early backing from Adaverse, the Cardano accelerator focused on Africa.