“Put your money where your mouth is.”
A phrase I used to take lightly; even find amusing - but over time lost its punch. Until now.
In Africa, we love to talk.
It’s more than a pastime; it’s part of our identity.
We’re deeply invested in dialect, debate, and declaration.
From politics to pop culture, social commentary to sports, gist runs in our blood.
Who’s winning the Grammy?
Burna won’t hit 100k on this new album.
Ayra will outperform Tyla, just wait.
Davido > Wizkid.
And the most recycled of them all: Messi is better than Ronaldo (he is, by the way 😏).
These arguments make us.
They animate our timelines, fuel our group chats, and give us something to care about when life gets heavy.
They’re proof of life.
Cogito, ergo sum.
We gist, therefore we are.
But for all the noise, all the conviction, there’s never been a way to make any of it real.
To track it. To reward it. To hold people to their declarations.
It all just floats into the void. Forgotten when proven right. Untouched when proven wrong.
So we built GistPool.
A simple, culture-first prediction platform where the things Nigerians already argue about - music, politics, Big Brother, football, the economy, are turned into live markets.
Having built products like MySub, now used by hundreds of thousands across Africa and EU to coordinate shared payments, and led engineering across multiple fintech stacks, I’ve spent the last few years at the intersection of behavioral design, incentive architecture, and financial trust systems.
I’ve seen how users respond when money meets friction.
I’ve seen how they convert belief into action. Not through sentiment, but structure.
And I’ve seen how virality, accountability, and liquidity can all emerge when a system is designed to mirror how people already behave.
You know that moment in every Nigerian argument when it gets loud, heated, and someone says:
“Make we put am money nahh.”
GistPool is that system; built for how We argue, predict, and perform certainty online.
We pick the gist. You pick a side.
Stake what you believe.
If you’re right, you win. If not, at least you weren’t just loud for free.
Over 60 markets have already gone live, generating over $100k in volume within just a few days of invite-only testing. The signal is clear: people are ready for this.
People want more than banter. They want proof. They want receipts.
And it’s about time the culture had a scoreboard.
gistpool.com - Trade on Anything.