The Project at a Glance
Anfani's tokenisation of renewable energy assets
Unlocking transparent climate finance for distributed energy markets — connecting financiers, MSMEs, and energy providers through a blockchain-backed tokenization layer that guarantees data integrity and verified carbon access.
🏢 Start-up / Organization
Anfani Ltd
👤 Project Leader
Ishaq Bolarinwa, CEO
🌍 Country
Nigeria
⚡ Energy Sector Segment
Renewable Energy Finance, Energy Brokerage, Carbon Markets, MSME Access to Finance
🧠 Key Technology(ies)
Web2 Digital Brokerage Platform (live), Blockchain / DLT (in design), IoT Energy Monitoring, Smart Contracts, AI/ML Credit Scoring, Carbon MRV
📊 Status
Early Scale-up
Hero
Company Overview
Anfani is an energy brokerage firm that connects key stakeholders in the renewable energy sector, bridging the gap between financiers, energy providers, and MSMEs in underserved communities. Through its digital brokerage platform, Anfani streamlines access to financing and energy solutions, empowering businesses with sustainable power. Its projects drive social impact, advance environmental sustainability, and align with global initiatives such as the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
A fully integrated Web2 brokerage platform is already live, featuring smart financing, automated KYC, an embedded fintech wallet, credit scoring, and a built-in energy calculator for MSME profiling. The Anfani Blockchain Platform is the next evolution — adding a distributed ledger layer for data integrity, on-chain carbon asset tracking, tokenisation of renewable energy assets, and structured access to carbon markets.
Anfani operates in the UK and Nigeria, where it provides financing for renewable energy projects tailored to MSMEs in underserved and unbanked areas.
"Our blockchain platform is the trust layer the African clean energy transition has been missing — making energy data credible enough to move capital."
Challenge
Across Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa, three essential actors in the clean energy economy — financiers, MSMEs, and energy providers — remain structurally disconnected. Financiers cannot find credible, de-risked projects. MSMEs lack the data trails needed to access affordable energy finance. Energy providers generate real emissions reductions but have no reliable mechanism to quantify, certify, or monetise them.
Carbon credit and offset claims in emerging markets are frequently unverified and opaque — making them commercially unattractive and financially unreliable. Without tamper-proof, auditable records, neither investors nor carbon markets can accurately price risk or reward genuine climate impact. Manual processes and weak digital infrastructure slow down scaling and compliance with reporting obligations. Also, Traditional finance models do not adequately support distributed energy asset monetisation.
The Solution
The Anfani Platform is a secure digital infrastructure layer that converts real-world renewable energy performance into verified digital climate assets. Built on top of the existing live Web2 platform, it adds the trust, verification, and monetisation capabilities that distributed energy markets need to attract institutional capital.
The platform enables five core capabilities:
- Tokenisation of renewable energy assets — converting physical energy performance into bankable digital instruments
- On-chain carbon asset tracking — immutable, tamper-proof records of emissions reductions and offsets
- Secure IoT-integrated performance data — real-time energy data from physical assets feeding directly into the blockchain layer
- Transparent, audit-ready reporting — meeting the due diligence and impact reporting requirements of institutional investors
- Structured access to carbon markets — enabling energy providers to generate, certify, and monetise verified carbon credits
How It Works
Anfani converts real-world renewable energy performance into verified digital climate assets through a four-layer pipeline:
Energy Assets | → | Data Layer | → | Blockchain Layer | → | Market Layer |
Energy Assets
Distributed renewable energy installations — solar, mini-grids, and off-grid systems serving MSMEs — generate real-world energy performance data captured via IoT-integrated monitoring.
Data Layer
The live Web2 platform ingests and structures energy performance data, MSME profiles, and transaction records. AI and ML models process credit scoring, load profiling, and financing eligibility.
Blockchain Layer
Performance data is recorded immutably on a distributed ledger. Smart contracts validate energy thresholds and trigger carbon credit issuance in line with the Verra VCS MRV standard. Layer 1 architecture and end-to-end security design are finalised.
Market Layer
Verified carbon credits are made accessible to financiers, carbon market participants, and institutional investors. MSMEs gain access to structured financing products backed by their verifiable data profiles.
Impact on the Ground
The Anfani Blockchain Platform simultaneously addresses the financing gap, data gap, and trust gap across Africa's clean energy ecosystem. With 7,000+ individuals already impacted through the live platform and 63+ completed projects, the blockchain layer is designed to multiply this reach by unlocking the institutional capital flows that the brokerage platform alone cannot access.
- Financial inclusion — MSMEs in underserved and unbanked communities gain access to verified financing backed by real energy performance data
- Carbon market integrity — energy providers generate auditable, market-grade carbon credits aligned to Verra VCS standards
- Investment mobilisation — financiers gain the audit-ready data infrastructure needed to deploy capital at scale and meet ESG reporting obligations
- Reduced transaction costs — automated KYC, smart contract financing, and on-chain records reduce friction across the value chain
- Verified CO₂ reductions — emissions avoided through distributed renewable energy installations recognised and monetised internationally
- Alignment with UN SDGs — direct contribution to SDG 7 (affordable clean energy), SDG 8 (economic growth), SDG 13 (climate action), and SDG 17 (partnerships)
Results So Far
Anfani has progressed through four key milestones on the path from concept to blockchain deployment:
Product Validation Completed UX Beta testing and successfully transitioned to Live Platform Deployment. | Core Infrastructure Finalised Layer 1 assessment framework and robust End-to-End Security Architecture. | Strategic Compliance Initiated official Carbon Certification pathway for Verra Standard and high-level Regulatory Policy Engagement with NITDA. | Web2 Deployed Fully integrated Web2 Platform live, bridging legacy systems with digital assets across financier, MSME, and energy provider segments. |
What’s Next
Anfani is advancing from ideation to pilot on the blockchain layer while upgrading the core platform. Four priorities drive the next phase: Platform V2.0 — investor ROI tools, and smart contracts for lease-to-own financing on an immutable ledger; blockchain integration — completing architecture build on the live Web2 platform, with Layer 1 scoped and security architecture finalised; carbon certification — advancing the Verra VCS pathway already initiated and running a closed pilot to issue the first tranche of platform-verified carbon credits; and capital partnerships — onboarding DFIs, climate funds, and impact investors as early platform users.
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