The Africa Blockchain Festival 2025 just wrapped its third and final day in Kigali, Rwanda, and while the schedule leaned more toward community bonding than stage talks, one interview stole the show for anyone who trades (or gets rekt by) Solana tokens.

SolanaFloor published an exclusive chat with Cyusa Asaph, a Rwandan smart-contract engineer and festival organizer who’s been building on Solana since 2022. The headline-grabber? His team is quietly cooking a Solana-native whale tracker focused on better interoperability and smoother user experience, with a planned launch in early 2026.

Why meme traders should care

If you’ve ever watched a fresh pump.fun launch get absolutely vacuumed by a handful of wallets in the first thirty seconds, you already know how useful a good whale tracker is. Current tools exist, but a new player built specifically for Solana’s speed and with interoperability in mind could make it easier to spot coordinated buys, bundle sniping, or incoming dumps across multiple DEXs — exactly the kind of edge the meme coin casino rewards.

Cyusa emphasized exactly why Solana clicks in places like Rwanda:

• sub-second finality
• almost-zero fees
• strong community support

Those same traits are why Solana became the default chain for meme coin degens in the first place. When transaction costs are negligible, even tiny African retail traders can ape $50 into the next goatseus without getting eaten alive by fees.

A quick Day 3 recap

• Morning → Kigali Tech Run (runners + blockchain nerds getting the blood flowing)
• Midday → Visit to the Kigali Genocide Memorial – a heavy but important reminder of Rwanda’s resilience
• Evening → Closing dinner with senators, the Rwandan Blockchain Association chair, and promises that next year’s festival will be even bigger

The real story, though, is that Africa’s developer scene is growing fast, and a lot of that talent is choosing Solana. More local builders → more tools → more infrastructure → healthier (or at least more transparent) meme markets.

Cyusa’s advice to young African devs thinking about jumping in:

“Start small, stay curious, and build something meaningful.”

Solid life advice, but also exactly how most legendary meme coins started — someone built a token “for the culture” and the timeline did the rest.

We’ll be keeping an eye on that whale tracker launch next year. If it delivers, it could become required reading for every Solana degen from Lagos to Nairobi (and the rest of us too).

Read the full SolanaFloor wrap-up here.