StartShield-STSH

Web3 Insurance Infrastructure for Africa
Built on Cardano | MIBT Cardano Hub Zambia

CATS2026 Innovation

StartShield-STSH was selected among the Top 5 projects at the Cardano Africa Tokenization Summit (CATS2026) incubator program in Nairobi, Kenya.

It was the only innovation representing Southern Africa.

StartShield-STSH is a decentralized insurance and risk management platform designed to support underserved sectors across Africa.

The platform provides protection and financial infrastructure for:

• smallholder farmers
• MSMEs and startups
• cooperatives
• small-scale miners
• rural communities

StartShield-STSH is accessible through:

• Web platform
• Mobile App
• USSD access

Total supply: 2,000,000,000 STSH

Utility token used for platform transactions and governance.

Real World Asset token representing assets including:

• seeds
• agrochemicals
• livestock
• chicks
• fingerlings
• mining commodities
• real estate

Insurance and risk coverage token supporting decentralized protection mechanisms.

StartShield integrates with innovations developed within the MIBT Cardano Hub Zambia ecosystem:

• Village Chain Bank
• ASME-X Mining Platform
• AfYEF Digital Enterprise & Trade
• Uhurulang