Akon’s $6 billion “Wakanda” dream crumbles as Crypto City plan abandoned –
The crypto-powered metropolis is now just a forgotten blueprint.
Akon’s ambitious vision of a futuristic, cryptocurrency-powered metropolis in Senegal has officially been shelved.
The Grammy-nominated artist’s $6 billion “Akon City” project, once hyped as a real-life Wakanda, has been declared dead by Senegalese officials, marking the end of a dream that never got off the ground.
Announced in 2018, the city was supposed to be built using Akon’s own Akoin cryptocurrency, fuelling a high-tech African economic hub.
But after years of delays, the only visible progress was a single unfinished reception building, with no roads, water, or electricity.
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