MANSSA®
// LAUNCHLAB · STARTUP PROGRAM FOR AFRICA

The gateway to Africa's
on-chain economy.

We help your project launch — and you keep 100% of your company.

LaunchLab is MANSSA®'s startup program: we help builders turn real-world assets into on-chain products. We run two groups a year ("cohorts") for web3 startups, banks, and fintechs across Africa. Each project plugs straight into infrastructure that already works — price feeds (oracle), identity and anti-fraud checks (compliance), the tools to issue tokens, and a ready-made wallet. In return, projects don't give us shares: they align with $MANSSA, the protocol's token. We call this alignment, not equity — and we explain exactly how it works below.

// WHAT WE OFFER

Four concrete
contributions.

« LaunchLab gives any builder — a web3 startup, a bank, a fintech — four ready-made pieces that normally take months to build: verified price data (the oracle), the compliance checks regulators require, the contracts that turn an asset into a token, and a wallet your users pay no fees to use. Each piece you don't have to build saves you months. In return, each project aligns with the ecosystem through $MANSSA, the protocol's token — no shares change hands. »

Funding you don't pay back

A grant — money you don't repay — from the MANSSA Foundation Treasury, between $250K and $2M USD per project. You receive it as you hit agreed milestones, not on a fixed schedule. It is non-dilutive: you take the capital without giving us any shares in your company.

KETZAL trust & compliance layer

Access to KETZAL — the layer that proves, on-chain, that your assets are real and your data is untampered. It gives you verified price feeds (the oracle), the identity and anti-money-laundering checks regulators require (KYC/AML), continuous proof that the assets exist (proof-of-reserve), and live monitoring of your data. It's included in the cohort, up to $400K USD of value. You don't build compliance from scratch — you plug into ours.

Tools to turn an asset into a token

Ready-made contracts to issue your token, manage it, and let holders redeem it for the real asset behind it (redemption). Every token is over-collateralised — backed by more real value than its price, a built-in safety buffer. A real asset — a bank deposit, an unpaid invoice (a receivable), a commodity like cocoa or gold — becomes a live on-chain token in weeks, not months. The regulatory groundwork is already done.

A seat at the governance table

Cohort projects get a seat in the DAO — the body where token holders vote on the protocol's decisions. The seat lets you observe but not vote, so you see how decisions are made from the inside. You also get a direct technical contact on the Security Council, the group of seven that safeguards the protocol, to help you integrate. Visibility and credibility, straight from the protocol.

// HOW WE EARN INSTEAD OF TAKING SHARES

How projects align
with the ecosystem.

Stake $MANSSA
The project stakes $MANSSA — it deposits and holds the token, putting its own value on the line (staking). The amount sits within ranges set by governance. This ties the project's success to the protocol's.
Provide liquidity
The project sets up a liquidity pool (an LP) — a shared pot of its own token paired with $MANSSA, so people can trade between the two. That builds steady demand for $MANSSA from real use, not speculation.
Pay for the services
The project pays ongoing fees for the services it uses — the oracle, compliance, tokenisation, and wallet. That fee revenue flows back into the ecosystem.
// Cohort calendar
01·H1
Cohort 01
Jan 15 → Jun 20 — turning real assets into tokens
02·H2
Cohort 02
Jul 15 → Dec 15 — infrastructure and price-feed (oracle) projects
8–12
Projects
The most we take per cohort
6 mo
Duration
From selection to demo day, milestone by milestone
// We take no shares — here's how we earn

Most accelerators take a slice of your company. We don't. Instead of shares, each project aligns with the protocol three ways: it stakes $MANSSA, it pairs its own token with $MANSSA in a liquidity pool, and it pays fees for the services it uses (oracle, compliance, tokenisation, wallet). The more projects build and use the stack, the more demand they create for $MANSSA — and that demand funds the next cohort. Your incubation contract sets the exact stake, pool size, and fees. They are negotiated within ranges that governance has set, and the whole arrangement is auditable on-chain by the DAO. The program runs within Morocco's digital-asset framework (Bill 42.25, overseen by the central bank BAM and the markets regulator AMMC) — so this is regulated infrastructure, not a side deal.

// WHO WE LOOK FOR

Four lanes.
One continental thesis.

« We build an ecosystem, cohort after cohort. »

T1Real-asset projectsCommodities, unpaid invoices, government assets — turned into on-chain tokens
T2Banks & fintechsTurn deposits into tokens · finance trade · reach clients on-chain
T3Web3 & DeFiAfrican-built apps · phone-first · works with M-Pesa
T4Identity & complianceAfrican digital ID · identity checks (KYC) · onboarding for institutions
P5Continental reachTarget 2031–2032 — 50+ companies launched through LaunchLabcardinal

We choose projects by what they're building, not by hype. The stack fits anyone with a real asset, a real customer base, or a real compliance problem who wants to solve it on-chain. "African-built" means a real one: an African team, an African problem, and revenue earned in Africa.

// THE LAUNCHLAB MODEL

We align.
We build infrastructure.

« Every project we back keeps 100% of its company. The protocol earns from the ecosystem we build together — staking, liquidity, and service fees, never your shares. A model built to last. »

LaunchLab — operated under MANSSA protocol governance
  • 01You keep 100% of your company — no shares to us. You align instead through on-chain mechanics: staking $MANSSA, providing liquidity, and paying protocol fees.
  • 02The stack is open to all kinds of builders: real-asset projects, web3 startups, banks, fintechs, and institutions that want to operate on-chain on infrastructure that already works.
  • 03KETZAL plugs in verified price data and compliance from day one — identity and anti-fraud checks (KYC/AML) and continuous proof that the assets exist (proof-of-reserve) — so you meet regulators' requirements without building your own layer.
  • 04Your incubation contract spells out the stake, the size of the liquidity pool, and the fees — all negotiated within ranges that governance has set, and open for the DAO to audit on-chain.
// BY THE NUMBERS

LaunchLab
in figures.

02
Cohorts per year
We accept only a few
10%
of $MANSSA supply
reserved to fund LaunchLab
$250K–$2M
Grant per project
Funding you don't pay back
4
Ready-made pieces
Price feeds · compliance · tokenisation · wallet
6 mo
Cohort duration
From selection to demo day
8–12
Projects / cohort
The most we take
// ENGAGE WITH MANSSA®

The protocol is doctrinal.
The conversation is open.

Read the whitepaper for the full architecture. Or request a confidential briefing — for sovereign partners, institutional allocators, and African builders.

8 / 8

anti-ZiG principles

built in, not promised

7-of-9

treasury approvals

signatures needed to move funds

3

jurisdictions

Switzerland · Morocco · OHADA

2027

TGE horizon

token launch — doctrine opposable