Amschel Kariuki
Founder. Born in Nairobi, Kenya.
I’m interested in how economies become productive: how goods get made, how energy reaches industry, and how trade connects people and places. I want to see African countries trade more with each other.
My work sits between technology and economics. I studied computer science, worked as a DeFi engineer for several companies, and have built extensively in Web3. These days, I spend more time thinking about macroeconomics, cross-border trade, energy, and Africa’s industrial future.
What I’m building
- ATIN — Africa Trade Infrastructure Network ↗
- I founded ATIN to work on the infrastructure that trade across Africa needs: production, transport, storage, energy, and the movement of money.
- Rift ↗
- Payment and settlement infrastructure I built for moving money across African borders. Rift brings together wallets, on- and off-ramps, and settlement using stablecoin rails.
- Jahazi ↗
- A pop-up city I run for people thinking seriously about Africa’s future. It brings together founders, engineers, operators, and critical thinkers working on industrialization and the systems that support it.
About 54
This is where I collect my writing on economics, technology, and the work of building in Africa. The essays start on Substack; you can read them here by topic.