FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

KwaZulu Natal, South Africa — 2026

GondwanaChain Launches Africa’s First Natively Hosted Blockchain-as-a-Service Platform — Built on the Continent, for the ContinentEnterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure — powered by Hyperledger Iroha2, secured with Post-Quantum Cryptography, and hosted entirely within Africa — is now available to businesses across every sector of the continent’s economy.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

GondwanaChain is a technology infrastructure provider. We provide blockchain platform software, managed node infrastructure, and developer tooling. We do not provide financial services, investment advice, payment services, or any product regulated under the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act (FAIS), the Financial Markets Act, or any other financial services legislation. Any application of GondwanaChain infrastructure to regulated financial activities is the sole responsibility of the licensed entity deploying such application.

Prospective clients in regulated sectors are advised to obtain independent legal and compliance counsel prior to deployment.GondwanaChain today announced the general availability of its Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform — a fully managed, enterprise-ready blockchain infrastructure solution designed specifically for African businesses. Unlike global competitors whose services route sensitive data through datacentres in Europe or North America, GondwanaChain runs entirely on servers hosted in Africa, making it one of the very few — and most capable — natively African blockchain platforms in existence.Built on Hyperledger Iroha2 with smart contracts written in Rust and compiled to WebAssembly (WASM), GondwanaChain delivers financial-grade performance, sovereign data residency, and cutting-edge Post-Quantum Cryptographic security — all delivered through a simple subscription model that eliminates the need for businesses to build or maintain their own blockchain infrastructure.

“Africa has long been a consumer of technology built elsewhere. GondwanaChain changes that. This is enterprise blockchain infrastructure conceived, built, and hosted on African soil — and it is world-class.”— GondwanaChain Founding Team

Platform Performance at a Glance

<1sTransaction Finality 10,000+TPS Throughput

99.95% Uptime SLA

PQC Post-Quantum Secured

100%Africa-Hosted Data

3 Plans Starter → Enterprise

Minutes Time to Deploy

GDPR+Compliance Ready

Why Blockchain — and Why Now for Africa

Blockchain technology provides a tamper-proof, shared record of transactions that no single party can alter unilaterally. For African enterprises operating in environments where trust, transparency, and auditability are critical competitive advantages, the implications are transformative.

Immutable audit trails that satisfy regulators without expensive reconciliation processes▸ Smart contracts that execute agreements automatically, eliminating delays and disputes.

Decentralised infrastructure that keeps operating even when individual nodes fail▸

Cryptographic proof of data integrity, replacing paper-based verification systems▸

A verifiable, shared ledger layer on which licensed financial service providers can build near-instant cross-border and interbank solutions.

With Africa’s digital economy projected to reach $712 billion by 2050 (IFC), and with financial inclusion, supply chain integrity, and government digitalisation topping the agenda of every major economy on the continent, the demand for trustworthy, verifiable, and locally governed digital infrastructure has never been greater.What Blockchain-as-a-Service Means for Your Business

Building and maintaining a permissioned blockchain network in-house requires rare expertise in distributed systems engineering, cryptography, and DevOps — typically a team of five to ten specialists and 12 to 18 months of development time. GondwanaChain eliminates that barrier entirely.

Fully managed infrastructure — GondwanaChain handles provisioning, monitoring, upgrades, and security patching.

Go live in minutes — automated deployment to cloud.co.za servers means a complete Iroha2 blockchain network is running in under ten minutes from sign-up.

Predictable costs — simple monthly subscription replaces seven-figure capital expenditure on hardware and engineering talent

Scale on demand — add nodes or upgrade from Starter to Enterprise without service interruption

Your keys, your data — each customer receives an isolated network, a dedicated Authentik SSO tenant, and full API access to their chain.

The African Advantage: Sovereign, Local, Competitive

Most enterprise blockchain platforms available to African businesses today are operated from datacentres in Frankfurt, Dublin, or Virginia. This creates significant risks and costs that are frequently overlooked:

Data sovereignty risk — sensitive business and citizen data leaves the continent, creating exposure under POPIA, Kenya’s Data Protection Act, Nigeria’s NDPR, and emerging frameworks across the AU

Latency penalties — round-trip times to European servers add 150–300ms per transaction, which compounds severely at scale

Currency exposure — USD and EUR-denominated pricing leaves African businesses exposed to exchange rate volatility

Support time zones — European business hours leave African customers waiting for critical infrastructure support GondwanaChain is different. Our entire platform runs on servers physically located in Africa. Your data never crosses a continental border. Our pricing is designed for African markets.

And our support team operates in African time zones.We are one of the very few — and the most technologically advanced — Blockchain-as-a-Service providers natively hosted on the African continent.World-Class Technology Stack.

GondwanaChain is built on a technology foundation that matches or exceeds anything available from global providers:▸

Hyperledger Iroha2 — the latest generation of the battle-tested Hyperledger permissioned blockchain, purpose-built for enterprise use cases with BFT consensus and Byzantine fault tolerance▸

Rust + WASM Smart Contracts — smart contracts compiled to WebAssembly deliver near-native execution speed with memory safety guarantees and a dramatically reduced attack surface compared to EVM-based alternatives▸

Hybrid Post-Quantum Cryptography — GondwanaChain is one of the first commercial BaaS platforms to implement PQC, protecting customer data against the threat of quantum computing before it arrives▸

Authentik SSO — each customer receives a fully isolated Single Sign-On tenant with OpenID Connect, providing enterprise identity management without additional tooling▸

Tauri-based Admin Console — a native desktop application for full platform management, built on a Rust backend with React for a fast, secure, and offline-capable interface▸

Supabase + Redis — real-time data infrastructure with row-level security ensuring complete tenant isolation at the database layer Transformative Use Cases Across Africa’s Key Sectors

FINANCIAL SERVICES & FINTECH

Infrastructure rails for licensed fintechs to build settlement and payment solutions with cryptographic finality and immutable audit trails▸ Programmable compliance tooling: enabling licensed financial institutions to embed their own regulatory logic directly into smart contracts — reducing reconciliation overhead and manual reporting

A trusted, verifiable ledger layer that licensed asset managers, payment processors, and cross-border service providers can build on — without managing their own blockchain infrastructure

SUPPLY CHAIN & LOGISTICS

End-to-end provenance tracking from farm or factory to end consumer

Automated customs clearance and trade finance via smart contract triggers

HEALTHCARE & PHARMACEUTICALS

Counterfeit prevention for pharmaceutical, agricultural, and luxury goods

Patient records shared securely across providers with full audit trail and patient consent management▸ Cold-chain verification for vaccine and medicine distribution across remote regions▸

Immutable clinical trial data that meets international regulatory requirements

GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC SECTOR

Land registry and property title management on an immutable, publicly verifiable ledger

Procurement transparency — every tender, award, and payment recorded and auditable by citizens

Digital identity infrastructure enabling secure, self-sovereign ID for unbanked populations.

RETAIL & E-COMMERCE

Loyalty programmes that are portable across merchants and cryptographically verifiable

Supplier payment automation via smart contracts triggered by delivery confirmation

Consumer-facing product authenticity certificates on public blockchain explorer

LEGAL & COMPLIANCE

Smart legal contracts that self-execute on verified conditions — reducing dispute resolution time from months to seconds▸ Immutable evidence preservation for litigation and regulatory investigations▸ Automated regulatory reporting with tamper-proof audit logs

Flexible Plans Built for African Business

STARTER1 Iroha2 NodeShared InfrastructureIdeal for: SMEs, pilots, MVPs

BUSINESS 3-Node BFT Network Dedicated Infrastructure Ideal for: Mid-market, regulated sectors

ENTERPRISE5-Node HA NetworkFully Dedicated + SLAIdeal for: Corporates, government, banksAbout GondwanaChainGondwanaChain is an African-founded, African-hosted Blockchain-as-a-Service company on a mission to make enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure accessible to every business on the continent.

Our platform combines the world’s most advanced permissioned blockchain technology — Hyperledger Iroha2 — with Post-Quantum Cryptography, WASM smart contracts, and a fully managed deployment model that gets businesses live in minutes, not months.Gondwana — the ancient supercontinent from which Africa emerged — is our inspiration. Just as Gondwana was the foundation of the modern world, GondwanaChain is building the foundational trust layer of Africa’s digital economy.

LEGAL & REGULATORY NOTICE

GondwanaChain (Pty) Ltd is a technology infrastructure company. Nothing in this press release constitutes the provision of financial services, financial advice, investment advice, or intermediary services as defined under South African law or the laws of any other jurisdiction. GondwanaChain does not hold a Financial Services Provider (FSP) licence issued by the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) and does not conduct any activity requiring such a licence. References to financial services sector use cases describe technology infrastructure capabilities available to appropriately licensed entities only. This document is issued for informational and marketing purposes only.

GondwanaChain https://gondwanachain.online

Pioneering blockchain infrastructure for the African continent.

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