Open Digital Public Infrastructure for African economic life.
One shared layer for identity, reputation, trust and settlement: that anyone can build on, that funds its ecosystem through grants, and that is governed in the open. Verify once, be trusted everywhere.
Millions can't prove they're trustworthy, so they get shut out.
A trader with ten years of clean history still gets asked to re-prove herself to every bank, lender, and border she meets.
Identity and reputation don't travel. Every institution rebuilds trust from scratch, so honest people and real businesses wait in line, pay more, or get turned away, from credit, from dollar accounts, from moving money across a border that should be routine.
The information exists. It just isn't portablebecause it lives inside closed platforms. That's an infrastructure problem, and it needs an infrastructure answer.
One shared layer. Everything else builds on top.
Adunai is not an app, it's the neutral layer underneath them. Hover each layer to see what lives there.
Anyone can build here. No permission needed.
Products people actually touch, wallets, lenders, remittance and savings apps, built by independent teams on the same shared rails. The protocol doesn't feature or favour any of them.
The primitives every institution can rely on.
Open contracts that make trust portable: who you are, what's been attested about you, and how value moves, owned by you, readable only with your consent.
Settlement no single country controls.
Adunai settles on Base, an Ethereum Layer 2, public infrastructure secured by Ethereum, running 24/7 across borders. Multi-jurisdictional by design: no national switch to be turned off, no single point of failure.
Verify once. Then it works everywhere you go.
Because the layer is shared, what you prove in one place counts in every other, across institutions, borders, and currencies.
One identity you own
A verified identity held by you, not rented from a bank or an app. Prove it once and reuse it, on your terms, with anyone.
Trusted across borders
Recognised in the next market the same way as your own. Send and receive across borders without re-proving who you are each time.
Dollar access, opened up
A recognised identity unlocks the dollar accounts and stable value that credit and cross-border trade depend on, for people the system usually skips.
For people and businesses
The same trust layer works for a market trader and a growing company. Individuals get access; businesses get to be verified counterparties.
Sign in with Adunai. Share only what you choose.
This is aID: the protocol's identity layer made visible. When a business needs to verify you, you approve exactly what to share, in one tap. Nothing more leaves your control.
Design preview · inert · no keys, no live chainApply for working capital
To review your application, we need to confirm your business identity. Verify with Adunai, you decide what to share.
Verified with Adunai
Kesho Credit now trusts your identity. No documents, no waiting, no re-proving.
What changes when trust travels with you.
The protocol funds what builds on it.
A grants program, launching with the Foundation, will fund work across five tracks, with open criteria and every decision published. Neutral by design: criteria pick winners, not people.
Research
Protocol design, cryptography, and the economics of shared trust.
Development
Core tooling, SDKs, clients, and infrastructure the network needs.
Ecosystem
Products built on the rails, wallets, credit, remittance, savings.
Community
Education, translation, and events, in the languages people speak.
Public goods
Open resources that make the whole ecosystem stronger, owned by no one.
Built so no one: not even us, can lock you in.
Neutrality isn't a promise, it's a process. Every change to the protocol walks the same public path, and the path to community voting is written into the Charter.
Public RFC
Every proposed change is posted for open comment. Anyone can respond.
Council review
Advisory councils weigh the change against the Charter and the ecosystem.
Multi-sig approval
No single key can move the protocol, a supermajority of signers must agree.
Timelocked execution
Approved changes wait in the open before they take effect, no surprises.
Foundation-stewarded
The protocol is governed by the Adunai Foundation under a public charter, not run by a company with shareholders to please. Changes pass defined gates, in the open.
Read the charter →Open & neutral rails
Anyone can build on Adunai and anyone can verify against it. The protocol doesn't feature, favour, or pick winners, every commercial builder builds as one team among equals, and the Foundation holds no equity in any of them.
Neutrality rules →No single kill-switch
Emergency pause requires a 7-of-9 council supermajority and is bounded to 14 days. Your identity and keys stay with you, the protocol never holds them.
Security & safeguards →Build on rails no one can take away.
Add Sign-in-with-Adunai, verify counterparties, or build a product on the identity and settlement layer. Contracts, SDKs, governance and security detail live in the docs.