Sango

Sango is the national digital currency project of the Central African Republic, running on a Bitcoin sidechain and tying sovereign issuance to resource tokenization. The project comprises citizen identity, e-residency permits and land rights credentials, all issued as NFTs and mapped to the Sango Coin, with a Crypto City plan as the vehicle for digital economic development. In August 2023 the Tokenization Act passed the National Assembly, providing a legal basis for putting assets on-chain. Issuance and transfer records of the three credential types are written to the sidechain, and holders can export on-chain credentials for reference. After archiving, on-chain credentials remain independently verifiable.

Later execution was constrained by macroeconomic and regulatory realities, leaving limited progress, and the site now presents itself as a historical archive, with early credentials and transaction records still queryable on-chain. Sango stands as a representative case of sovereign-level tokenization attempts, and its rise and stall are frequently cited in later research.