MAINNET· inafanya kazi tangu 2020BLOKI #32,731,548UMALIZIAJI 5.00sOPS / BLOKI 0WATHIBITISHAJI 11 · MASHIRIKA 5JUMLA YA XBN 369B XBNINAYOZUNGUKA 74.10B XBNMUUNGANIKO HFBA · UMALIZIAJI 3–5sMAINNET· inafanya kazi tangu 2020BLOKI #32,731,548UMALIZIAJI 5.00sOPS / BLOKI 0WATHIBITISHAJI 11 · MASHIRIKA 5JUMLA YA XBN 369B XBNINAYOZUNGUKA 74.10B XBNMUUNGANIKO HFBA · UMALIZIAJI 3–5s
Bantu
Foundation · Mission

Our mission is to empower humanity.

Our mission is to empower humanity across all industry sectors, both public and private using blockchain and other 4th Industrial Revolution (IR) technologies.

//In practice

Four commitments that shape every decision.

01

Financial inclusion at scale

Cater to the unbanked and underbanked across Africa and other emerging markets — populations the formal financial system has structurally left out. BantuPay reaches 165 countries today; the protocol underneath is built to bring billions more on-chain at fractional cost.

02

Economic sovereignty

Give individuals, businesses, and institutions the cryptographic infrastructure to transact, settle, custody, and trade without rent-seeking intermediation. Self-custody by default. No central authority over a user's keys, assets, or counterparties.

03

Pan-African market infrastructure

Unify the secure issuance, transfer, trading, settlement, clearing, and custody of tokenized digital assets in real time. Unlock the capital trapped in illiquid assets and the informal sector across the continent.

04

Open to the world

Built in Africa, but the network has no borders. Any project, in any market, can plug into the same rails: cross-border payments, real-world asset issuance, stablecoins, identity, settlement.

What it looks like today.

The mission isn't aspirational. These are operational, verifiable facts about the network as it runs right now.

Mainnet live since
2020
engineering since 2018
Countries reached
165
via BantuPay
Consensus protocol
HFBA
Harambee Federated Byzantine Agreement
Validator organizations
5
11 nodes
Settlement
3–5s
3–5 second finality
Per-transaction cost
<$0.10
100k payments < $10
9
Industry,
Innovation
Aligned with UN SDG 9

Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation.

The Bantu Blockchain Foundation is a proud supporter of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with deliberate focus on SDG 9. Resilient infrastructure is the prerequisite for everything else in the mission.