Mukoko Identity
You are more than a username.
Your Mukoko Digital Twin is a living, evolving portrait of who you are — your interests, your communities, your world. It lives on-chain as an identity token that is permanently and irreversibly yours. Nobody can take it. Nobody can buy it. Nobody can copy it.
From person to protocol
How a human being becomes a soulbound digital identity.
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Stage 01
You verify your identity
A real person, a real birth date, a real moment in time. Your verified date of birth becomes the mathematical anchor of your identity token — permanently and immutably yours.
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Stage 02
Your token is minted on-chain
A soulbound MUKOKO Identity Token is minted to your wallet on the Polygon blockchain. This token is non-transferable — it cannot be sold, traded, or taken from you. It belongs to you the way your birthday belongs to you.
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Stage 03
Your twin learns your world
As you use Mukoko — reading news, attending events, buying on the marketplace, talking in communities — Shamwari builds a rich picture of your interests, preferences, and personality. All learning happens on your device. Nothing leaves without your permission.
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Stage 04
Your twin becomes you
Your digital twin carries your interests across every mini-app simultaneously. The same you that loves Afrobeats in Mukoko News also gets Afrobeats event recommendations in Nhimbe, Afrobeats articles in Pulse, and Afrobeats creators to follow in Circles. One identity. One twin. Everywhere.
Data sovereignty
Your data. Your rules.
Most platforms extract your data and sell it. Mukoko inverts the relationship entirely.
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On-device learning
Shamwari AI processes your behaviour entirely on your device. Your patterns, preferences, and habits never leave your phone unless you explicitly choose to share them.
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Soulbound identity
Your MIT cannot be transferred, sold, or revoked. It is cryptographically bound to your verified identity on the Polygon blockchain. It is yours for life.
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Full data portability
Export your complete digital twin — every interest, preference, and setting — at any time, in any format. Take it with you. Delete it. You decide.
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Family protection
Users under 18 are never profiled. Shamwari's learning engine is automatically disabled for minor accounts. Parents set the rules.
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African by design
Your identity isn't filtered through American or European systems. Mukoko is built in Africa, for Africa, and your data stays on African infrastructure.
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Ubuntu Score
Your contribution to the community — helping others, creating content, hosting events — builds a reputation that amplifies your voice in governance. Community is the currency.
The protocol
Value anchored to time itself.
The Mukoko Token Protocol anchors value to the one thing that is universally shared, immutable, and impossible to manipulate: the passage of time. Every person has a date of birth. That date cannot be changed, inflated, or devalued by any government, central bank, or market participant. Time accumulates at exactly one second per second, for everyone, forever.
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Year Pool (60%)
Everyone born in the same calendar year. The largest, most stable pool — resistant to manipulation because flooding it would require millions of fake users.
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Month Pool (30%)
Everyone born in the same month across any year. Bridges generations, creating connections across birth-year cohorts.
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Day Pool (10%)
Everyone born on the same day of the month. The most personal layer — connecting you to a multigenerational community.
Your token's value is the weighted composite of these three pool means. Every token ages at exactly one second per second. Value is therefore monotonically increasing — it can never permanently go down. There is no crash scenario in the protocol.
Ndiri nekuti tiri.
Shona — “I am because we are.” Your twin. Your sovereignty. Your hive.