The next stage for Machankura, which is currently only a custodial Lighting solution, is enabling Africans to hold their own private keys, bringing them true financial self-sovereignty. In January, at Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town this past January, an event Ngako helped organize, he announced Machankura’s Bitcoin Java Card project, which will let feature phones double as non-custodial Bitcoin wallets. Java Card is software that allows applets, basic computer programs that perform specific tasks, to run on smart cards, which communicate with the SIM cards in the phones. In this case, the Java Card software will enable African users to hold their bitcoin private keys, sign transactions and see their UTXO balance.