Wayst Recycling: A Year in Review
Wayst Recycling is a decentralized platform enabling on-demand scheduling of waste pick-up and drop-off with $cUSD rewards for participants. Over the past year, we shipped a progressive web application serving individual collectors, built operational dashboards for field agents, administrators, and municipal partners, and secured institutional backing that accelerated our development velocity and network expansion.
Foundation and Institutional Support
The @Prezenti.grants Prezenti grant round provided funding that directly enabled infrastructure scaling. Capital allocation prioritized three areas: engineering resources for dashboard development, agent onboarding and incentive structures, and blockchain integration optimization. The grant came at inflection point—pre-grant, we operated with limited developer capacity; post-grant, we doubled engineering output.
Parallel to this, the @CeloFoundation Celo Foundation provided technical collaboration and ecosystem resources beyond capital. Their support included @GigeHierz for the validation, active encouragement, @CeloAfricaDAO community amplification through Celo channels and Our amazing community of followers on twitter and telegram. This combination—grants plus technical infrastructure—removed critical blocking points in our deployment timeline.
These encouragement signaled market validation. Institutional backing from both Prezenti and Celo reduced credibility friction with municipal stakeholders and agent recruits.
Technical Infrastructure Built
The progressive web application abstracts collection complexity for end users Wayst Recycling Progressive Web App. The user journey: location input → waste category selection → agent matching → collection scheduling → weight verification → reward execution. Backend infrastructure handles real-time geolocation matching against agent position data, volume calculation via manual input / third-party verification], and automated reward transfers via Celo’s stablecoin rails and @getpartner API off-Ramp feature.
The management dashboard fragments by role with hard access boundaries Management Dashboard. Agent interface displays collection routes optimized via google maps, payment reconciliation, and performance metrics. Admin interface surfaces transaction throughput, token economics including $cUSD velocity, network health indicators, and dispute resolution queues. Municipal dashboard aggregates waste stream composition, landfill diversion rates, and collection coverage across jurisdictions—providing governments compliance-ready reporting without manual aggregation.
The Celo team’s guidance shaped our stablecoin integration architecture. We use $cUSD for reward distribution because it provides immediate liquidity, removes forex risk, and enables cross-border agent payments. Initial implementation suffered from settlement friction but we got over it using a secure API getaway. This technical collaboration prevented three months of trial-and-error that would have delayed agent onboarding.
Network Metrics and Operational Scale
Current state: 100 monthly active users, 4Tons+ waste collections processed, 5 tonnes diverted, structured agent network size across 5 municipalities. Transaction cost per collection averages $3cUSD, with reward structure set at $0.19cUSD per unit weight. This creates positive unit economics.
Agent acquisition accelerated post-Prezenti funding. We deployed capital directly into agent incentives: signup bonuses of $1cUSD, collection completion bonuses, and weekly performance multipliers. Network grew from 2 agents to 10 agents in a 2 month timeframe, concentrated across 2 cities/regions. Agent retention remains primary friction point—average agent tenure is 2 months, with primary churn drivers being moderate collection volume / competing opportunities with competitors.
Technical Debt and Architectural Constraints
Scaling from current volume to 10x requires database optimization for geolocation matching. Current implementation uses google api, which hits latency constraints above 300+ concurrent users.
$cUSD demand remains unvalidated at scale. Current ecosystem use of $cUSD is concentrated in Wayst and Minipay. If users cannot spend or exchange rewards efficiently, retention degrades. Celo’s expanding merchant integrations address this—grocery platforms, SaaS tools, and remittance services on Celo create exit ramps for $cUSD. Without these, we function as closed-loop token system vulnerable to saturation.
Next 12 Months: Defined Milestones
Q1 and Q2 [2026]: Scale agent network to 20 across 5 regions. Launch : 3 new features. Integrate with 7 Municipal and logistics partner].
Q3 and Q4 [2026]: Grow our users to about 1K+ MAU and 300 DAU with collection of about 10Tons Quarterly.
