Edible and crypto are words that rarely share a sentence, but in Nairobi’s satellite town of Kitengela, an unlikely innovation is marrying them, with the promise of easing a long-standing headache for Kenyan farmers.
When 28-year-old Mara Maroa ventured into dragon fruit farming, he wasn’t trying to invent an edible cryptocurrency, but his passion for both agriculture and digital assets pushed him to try to combine the two.
