Through an AMA session, Cardano CEO Charles Hoskinson divulged details of his Memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Ethiopia government. Although the Ethiopian government has signed the MoU, Charles Hoskinson will be working hand in hand with the Ministry of Innovation and technology to develop and implement the new payment platform. After its implementation in Addis Ababa, the new digital payment platform will be rolled out to other cities as times goes by. While details about the whole development plan were not released, Charles Hoskinson didn’t say if the platform would be based on Cardano network or will be hosted on its blockchain platform. Besides working on the payment platform with the Ethiopian government, Charles also had a meeting with the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency.

Source: Ethiopian News April 23, 2019 12:00 UTC