Machankura released an interesting new feature called "clans".

Machankua enables people in (currently) 8 African countries to use Bitcoin and Lightning from a simple feature phone, with just a phone number. The service is, of course, fully custodial, but is still very interesting in that it provides an easy to use wallet to anyone in the supported countries. It doesn't use internet, but rather a mobile communication protocol called USSD that is present on all mobile phones, and already widely used for other mobile money services.

With the new "clans" feature, users can create a clan, a group of users, to which they can invite their friends or family. The clan has its own Lightning Address, and funds received are credited to the clan itself. Members of the clan can then propose to distribute the funds to all members, or to send them to another phone number/username in the Machankura system, or straight to another Lightning address. Decisions in the clan are reached through vote, with the threshold required to reach consensus determined by the clan's admin(s) at the clan's inception.