🚀 Presentee Grant Fuels Our Mission

We’re thrilled to announce that Sargo has received a Grant via Prezenti.xyz, the Celo community grants program mirror.xyz. This new grant not only provides valuable support for development, but also validates our mission to make stablecoin access seamless. We’re grateful to the Prezenti team for believing in Sargo’s vision and helping us accelerate financial inclusion. More details here.

💰 First B2B Swap Completed – High-Volume Readiness

Sargo recently facilitated its first large business-to-business swap, moving nearly KES 250,000 in one go! This milestone transaction (about 1,900 USDT against ~KES 248,000) demonstrated that our platform can handle higher volumes securely and efficiently. The seamless completion of this ~quarter-million shilling swap shows that Sargo is ready for bigger trades and institutional volumes. It’s a strong proof-point that our escrow-based P2P engine scales beyond micro-swaps to serious business needs. We’re excited to empower more merchants and organisations to swap large amounts with confidence on Sargo.

🎓 University Launch: Bridging Sarafu Vouchers to Stablecoins

Sargo has gone live at Lukenya University (Kenya) in partnership with Sarafu Network, unlocking a new on-ramp for community currency users. Lukenya University’s LUSOBE voucher (a Sarafu local voucher used by students and vendors) can now be seamlessly swapped into stablecoins or Kenyan Shillings via Sargo and grassrootseconomics.org. This integration means Sarafu voucher holders are no longer limited to trading only within their community – they can convert vouchers to cUSD or cKES stablecoins, or even cash out to KES mobile money, all through Sargo’s non-custodial platform. It’s a groundbreaking step that bridges community currencies and mainstream digital money, empowering students and local businesses with broader financial access while still benefiting from Sarafu’s interest-free credit system. We’re proud to collaborate with Sarafu.Network and Grassroots Economics to make this a reality.

🌐 Graduating Magma & Celo Camp Incubators

Our journey of growth has been bolstered by support from two major Web3 incubator programs. Sargo successfully graduated from Borderless Africa’s magma residency and the Celo Camp accelerator, gaining invaluable mentorship and community along the way. In the magma 2 cohort held in Kenya, Sargo joined 23 other African founders reimagining Web3 solutions borderless.africa – being selected as one of the 13 startups (including Grassroots Economics) was an honor borderless.africa.

We also completed Celo Camp (Batch 9), Celo’s intensive virtual accelerator, where Sargo was one of the 16 graduating projects focused on financial inclusion forum.celo.org. Huge thanks to the Borderless.africa/magma team and the Celo ecosystem for their guidance and belief in us. These programs helped refine Sargo’s product and strategy, and we’re excited to apply these learnings to serve you better.

🔭 What’s Next for Sargo

We’re not slowing down – in fact, we’re gearing up for the next phase of innovation on Sargo. Here’s a preview of what’s on the horizon in the coming weeks and months:

• “First Swap Rewards” Launch: To boost new user activation, we’ll be rolling out a First Swap Rewards program. New users making their first swap on Sargo will earn a special reward, adding an extra incentive to dive in and start swapping. It’s our way of saying welcome and jumpstarting everyone’s journey into stablecoins.

• Sargo 2.0 – AI-Powered Agents: Sargo’s AI multi-agent architecture will scale up how autonomous agents coordinate tasks across our platform – from guiding user onboarding, to balancing liquidity, to streamlining dispute resolution. These intelligent agents work behind the scenes (and alongside our human support) to make every Sargo transaction smoother, faster, and smarter.

• Event-Based Coordination (AI + Automation): We’re exploring cutting-edge AI-driven, event-based workflows to orchestrate swaps across non-custodial wallets. By combining on-chain and off-chain triggers with advanced planning algorithms like HTNs (Hierarchical Task Networks), plus plugin integrations, Sargo aims to automate complex coordination tasks. In plain language: whenever certain conditions are met – whether a price hits a threshold, a payment is received, or a time window opens – our system could intelligently coordinate the next steps across multiple wallets and services. This would dramatically increase efficiency and open up new use-cases (like automated escrow releases or multi-step trades) while keeping users in control of their own wallets.

• Going Cross-Chain: Sargo is expanding beyond Celo. We plan to make swapping truly agnostic to which blockchain or token you prefer. Our vision is to enable merchants to fulfill swaps in any stablecoin on any chain, while they hold their liquidity in the chain/coin of their choice. For example, a merchant could commit liquidity in Celo dollars but seamlessly serve a user wanting USDT on Ethereum – all through Sargo’s platform. By connecting liquidity pools across chains, we’ll break down silos and let value flow wherever it’s needed. This cross-chain capability will greatly increase the flexibility and reach of Sargo’s marketplace.

Exciting times are ahead!

Each of these upcoming features is aimed at making Sargo more powerful, user-friendly, and ubiquitous across the crypto ecosystem. We’re energised by the progress so far – from grants and partnerships to technical milestones – and we remain laser-focused on our mission to democratise stablecoin access.

Thank you for being part of this journey. Stay tuned for more updates, and as always, feel free to join our community (Telegram, X) to share feedback or just say hello. Together, let’s keep building the future of inclusive finance with Sargo!