Wala was a blockchain-enabled mobile financial-services platform built for underserved consumers in emerging markets, which shut down in June 2019 after failing to secure follow-on funding. Wala's Twitter Score is 6.4 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #134,719 among 493,952 tracked accounts.
Wala was co-founded by Tricia Martinez and Samer Saab. The platform raised $1.2 million through a sale of Ethereum-based DALA tokens in an initial coin offering in December 2017, and was formerly affiliated with the Dala Foundation. At the time of its shutdown, an estimated 300 users had not recovered their funds.
Wala had previously partnered to lend 100 million Dala tokens, stated as worth $10 million, to 50,000 small-scale farmers in Uganda. The platform was formerly backed by Newtown Partners and Impact Engine. Wala has published 1,097 posts and has been mentioned by 23 accounts a total of 63 times, with 2,196 followers as of October 2026 on Twitter.
Who follows Wala on X?
The accounts that follow Wala include 32 founders, 9 angel investors and 9 influencers, among them Erik Voorhees, Vinny Lingham, Marc Weinstein, HTX, cryptomaestro.hl and Matthew Roszak.