About Corngate
Identity before capital
Corngate is building digital passport infrastructure for productive real-world assets, starting with land, trees and farms in Ghana.
The problem we work on is not, first, a lack of money. It is a lack of trusted, continuously updated information about assets: fragmented records, informal agreements, duplicated claims, inaccessible evidence and weak monitoring. Banks, insurers, buyers and regulators each rebuild the same picture from scratch — or decline to engage at all.
Corngate's answer is a passport: a persistent digital identity for a parcel, a tree or a farm, joined to verified evidence, geospatial data, explicit claims between people and assets, and a living history of inspections. Selected assertions are anchored to a public blockchain as certificates — tamper-evident timestamps of what was verified, never a substitute for legal process.
We build in a deliberate order. The pilot proves the registry with real assets in Ejisu Municipal, Ashanti Region — including the untidy parts, like disputes and revocations, shown publicly. Commercial verification, institutional data rooms and any regulated financing applications come after, each behind its own legal and regulatory gate, including Ghana's SEC regulatory sandbox pathway.
Corngate was founded by Marcel Kojo Gyan and is operated from Ghana, building in public. The roadmap, decisions and boundaries are documented openly — read the whitepaper or get in touch.
In public
Talks & public mentions
The Corngate concept was presented publicly before this registry was built — the platform you are browsing is that idea, implemented.
NFT.NYC 2023
New York · April 2023Speaker — “Growing real food with NFTs”
Watch the recording ↗Harvard African Development Conference 2023
Cambridge, MA · 2023Panelist — “Growing the continent through Sports, Arts and Culture”
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