MUSIC: Senegalese Artist Akon invents own cryptocurency, to build new city in his country

Akon to construct new city in Senegal with claim digital currency called AKoin

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The Missouri-conceived maker, who is of Senegalese plunge, uncovered insights about the place - called Akon Crypto City - on a board called Branding Africa: Blockchain, Entrepreneurship and Empowering the Future at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. 

As per Page Six, he told the board's group of onlookers at the imaginative celebration that his proposed digital currency - AKoin - would be "the hero of Africa from multiple points of view" due to its security benefits. 

He says that the arrangement of digital money "enables the general population to use it in ways where they can propel themselves and not enable government to do those things that are holding them down." 

At the point when made specialized inquiries about the future city, he answered: "I accompany the ideas and let the nerds make sense of it." 

The site for Akon's new crypto coin says that Akon Crypto City is being produced on 2,000 sections of land of land that the leader of Senegal skilled to the artist, including that it will be "a first of its kind 100 for each penny crypto-based city with AKoin at the focal point of value-based life." 

It's portrayed as a "genuine Wakanda," which alludes to the cutting edge country administered by King T'Challa/Black Panther in Marvel's Black Panther film and funnies. 

Akon Crypto City is set to be positioned "inside five minutes of the new universal air terminal, near the drift and a short drive from Dakar, the capital city of Senegal (Akon's country)." 

While some may be distrustful of Akon's designs, his philanthropy Akon Lighting Africa, which helps sort financing for sun oriented boards and littler lighting ventures, moved to 17 African nations in its initial two long periods of activity and right now guarantees it has extends in 25 countries.