Republic of haiti, a Western Caribbean state torn by a tragic past, natural disasters, poor leadership and ineffective foreign assist, is not a country that comes to people's minds when they think of blockchain adoption. For years, Republic of haiti has been amid the earth'southward poorest countries in terms of Gdp per capita, as per data from the Globe Banking company.

But Haitian-Canadian entrepreneur Nandy Martin, colloquially known equally Helm Haiti for wandering the streets of his community in his superhero attire and signature shield prop, has ambitious goals to change that. Operating from the sunny domains of his apprehensive abode in Miami'south Lilliputian Haiti, Martin launched the Little Haiti Money on the Cardano blockchain as an initiative to make clean up his community, drive business crypto adoption and use information technology as a ways to promote Haitian imports. In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, Helm Haiti discussed the dynamics of the Trivial Haitian Coin and the technological roadmap of the project going forward.

Captain Haiti and Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson |Source: Charles Hoskinson via Twitter

Cointelegraph: What inspired y'all to create the Little Haiti Coin and this venture?

Captain Haiti: In that location are so many nonprofits involved in Haitian guild. For the last, I will say, minimum sixty to lxx years, and the situation has gotten worse despite their all-time efforts. So, my approach to the state is totally capitalist, past integrating it into the world's economic organization. And that'south why I've created the Little Haiti coin, to allow folks there to get into the crypto era. So, the goods that we have and the precious minerals we have in Haiti could have a vehicle to merchandise them to the globe, accept care of our people with our social programs, etc.

CT: How are you turning that vision into reality?

CH: We have created i million Little Haiti Money on the Cardano blockchain. The way that we are doing it, we have acquired a facility and partnership for a 5000 square anxiety facility in Little Haiti, and then its residents can come and install a wallet where they're going to receive one Little Haiti Coin. So the goal of the facility is to become the people to install the wallet and allow them to go and purchase products or goods in Little Republic of haiti that are coming from Haiti. So, the utility of the token is to provide the resident of Little Haiti and provide the earth a discount from x% to 100% of goods imported from Haiti.

CT: And then how much remittance is coming from Haiti into the Picayune Haiti community in Miami?

CH: Our goal is to capture 1-quarter of the remittance from Haitians worldwide to Haiti, or $one billion. That's a keen question. Because the remittance to Haiti represents 36% of Haiti'due south Gdp. And the first phase was to become vendors in local businesses to have the Picayune Republic of haiti Coin — to desire to accept that [and be] in our advertizing. And to do that, we approached the Commissioner of Miami District v, Jeffrey Watson. And he had granted $200,000 to forty local businesses to help import Haitian products and make them bachelor to tourists visiting Niggling Haiti.

CT: What does progress look like for the Little Haiti Coin?

CH: The first utility of the new Haiti money was to clean upwardly the neighborhood. Okay, because information technology is an surface area that is economically challenged. So yous do have a lot of littering. We piece of work in partnership with the City of Miami, where everyone could sponsor to clean up one square foot of Little Republic of haiti with $3. And what you receive ... [as a] advantage is i Niggling Haiti money. So doing so, we had cleaned upwardly over 300,000 square feet of Haiti.

CT: Then, out of all blockchains, why did you cull Cardano, specifically, to launch the Niggling Republic of haiti coin?

CH: Afterwards meeting Charles Hoskinson, at that instant, I knew that somebody that is so innovative, and somebody that has been in this world, and descriptor world for that long, for that person to be so humble, and also willing to participate and play around with the shield, etc., ... And then, I had to dig into Cardano. And then I've discovered Cardano's mission to help create a better world for big organizations similar the small ones and people like me. So, I felt that I had a home in Cardano for the Little Haiti Coin.

CT: Where practice you see the technology heading one or two years from now?

CH: Aye, the project is going fast. The first thing is, I've created the Helm Haiti gaming token on the Binance Chain to educate the world about crypto. We will be releasing it on Jan ane. We already have ten,000 downloads of the game on the Play Store.

Screenshot of Captain Haiti game | Source: Captain Republic of haiti

And all we accept to do is to get the kids to play. And as the kids are playing, we are burning the circulating supply. This brings in questions, "Hey, what is circulating supply? What is inflation? What is deflation?" It's likewise about educating and changing the perception of people about Haiti.

And and so, [nosotros] also have the Cardano Beach facility. So, we provide you lot [with] an NFT that gets like the deed of your square footage that you're renting, for, say, a co-working infinite. And in one case nosotros have the hub, we invite the whole population to create their Cardano ID right here in Little Republic of haiti.