A cohort member on brotherhood and building on chain.
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Executive producer: C.Y. Lee
Six minutes in Ikorodu, Lagos with a developer finishing Web3Bridge Cohort 12, the fourth episode in the run of short interviews We Them Media filmed as the cohort wrapped.
Web3Bridge founder Ayodeji Awosika opens from the same building, counting the cohort in and out and listing where applications for the next one came from.
Then the introduction: “I’m Ebuka Moses Okoye. I’m from Anambra State”, Igbo by tribe.
His route in runs through a friend. “I got into tech when I was in the university, and that was towards my final year”, he says, and the friend “taught me the Web2 basics before I left for NYSC”. They stayed in touch, the friend went through an earlier cohort and kept raising blockchain, and “I applied and I passed the test and I was invited to come over.”
What he found on arrival is the part he keeps returning to. “I saw the union, the togetherness, the unity, the brotherhood, and the teaching”, he says, teaching that took him to “where I’m supposed to be”.
The mentorship answer is specific about who was in the room. “my cohort is very blessed because when we came, we met the senior guys, the alumni”, he says, alumni back for a masterclass who broke problems down until the newer people could tackle them. He puts the founder in the same frame: go to him with a problem and “He’ll be talking to you like your own senior brother.”
On what he wants out of it, he is a builder before he is an evangelist. “as a developer, I have a lot of things to achieve”, the first being solutions, using “the knowledge, especially the Web3 knowledge, the blockchain knowledge, to solve problems”, and turning existing Web2 apps into Web3 ones “because Web3 blockchain is providing scalability, security, and transparency”. The example he reaches for is a failed bank transfer: “this is not where you like rush to the bank saying that you made a transaction and it failed.” On chain, “Everything is on-chain.”
Asked whether blockchain matters for Africa, he says it twice over, then gives the reason: “we need transparency in Africa”.
The project is deliberately hard to label. It is “a platform where you can gift someone”, he says, “but we don’t want to call it a gifting platform”: generate a gift card and hand it to a person, an employee as an incentive, or someone at a tech conference. A second project waits until the cohort disperses.
His advice to a Web2 developer unsure whether Web3 is for them is not advice at all. He would tell the person “it’s either Web3 Bridge or Web3 Bridge”, and leave it there.
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