We are glad to be spotlighted by @EthereumNigeria as one of the vibrant Light Nodes in the Infinite Garden in the African region.
We continue building and accelerating impact.
Shining the Light in the Infinite Garden is the mission!
Users want more options to complement US dollar stablecoins
That’s why Celo is home to 33+ stablecoins across 20 currencies 💱
At @StblcnSummit SG, @MarkusCelo (Head of Stablecoins) highlights how use cases like borrowing & payments drive demand for local digital currencies
When @Opera launched @MiniPay, the goal was a "clean, familiar, comfortable UX," leveraging Celo's phone number mapping (@Selfxyz's Self Connect) & fee abstraction
20M+ activated wallets later, @murrayspark100 explains how MiniPay is delivering on this vision
Calling All Argentine Devs! @CeloDevs & @RipioApp's Stable Agents: LatAm Workshops are coming to a city near you 🇦🇷
Get hands-on support integrating wFIAT stablecoins & using Celo's native x402 facilitator for your chance at the $2K prize pool
See you Saturday, Oct. 17th! ↓
Swedish tech companies are remote-friendly, pay top tier rates, and operate almost entirely in English.
You do not need to speak Swedish or live in Europe to get hired.
Here are 3 platforms I researched where you can find remote Swedish roles:
.@Celo becoming the first network with USA₮ x402 payments, is just another milestone to building the best UX onchain.
Very proud of this one. Built and improved with builders and founders across our ecosystem, and I learned a ton along the way.
Short thread on why 🧵
“The funds were helpful, but more importantly, it validated and sort of whitelisted Finna in the Celo ecosystem.” - @FinnaHQ
Prezenti is a gateway. Giving you the funding and the credibility to grow within the @Celo ecosystem
290 of our 644 applications came from Africa.
We didn't run a campaign for it. We didn't run a campaign for it, organic builder traction came from the continent.
We've now backed 53 of those teams, all building on @celo for problems close to home.
Live now: exploring how Peanut makes payments simple while staying self-custodial, from payment links to bank and local payment rails
With @jchaskin22 and @uwwgo, co-founder of @joinpeanut
https://t.co/apzAAjFF0J
Welcome to @Celo, @LearnwayApp
We're backing LearnWay with a Prezenti grant as they migrate from Lisk to Celo, bringing their ERC-4337 smart accounts, contracts, learning assets and user activity with them.
Mobile-first, AI-powered skills learning for emerging markets. Whats not to love.
I got hacked at 3:59 AM without clicking anything. My voicemail handed the attacker my Telegram login code.
Here is exactly how it worked, so it doesn't happen to you.
3:54 AM. My phone rings about ten times in a row, No Caller ID. That was not harassment. It was the attack: keep my line busy.
Meanwhile, the attacker asks Telegram to log in with my number and picks "send the code by phone call". My line is busy, so Telegram's robot call lands on my voicemail and reads the code out loud to it.
Carrier voicemail can often be reached remotely, with a default PIN or a spoofed caller ID. He listens to the message. At 3:59 he is in.
Fortunately, the attack was noisy. The calls woke me up. At 4 AM I only wanted to go back to sleep, but I had the presence of mind to check my notifications. Telegram was showing a new login from a device I didn't know. That check is what saved me: I ended his session within minutes. If I had rolled over, the next day would have been a mess.
In those few minutes he had already typed /balance, then /start on every old wallet bot he could find in my chats. He was hunting for funds tied to my Telegram. The bots were long dead and nothing was lost. He still had time to set his own 2FA password on my account.
What would have stopped it:
Telegram two-step verification, with a recovery email. With a password on the account, the code alone is useless.
Your voicemail. Change the PIN, block remote access, or turn it off (##002# cancels call forwarding on most carriers).
Same for WhatsApp and any service that can send a code by voice call.
No seeds, keys or passwords in Saved Messages. Ever.
A burst of masked calls at night is a signal, not a nuisance. Check your notifications and your active sessions.
I have been building in crypto for more than ten years and I had never thought about my voicemail. Check yours today.
Welcome to @Celo, @LearnwayApp
We're backing LearnWay with a Prezenti grant as they migrate from Lisk to Celo, bringing their ERC-4337 smart accounts, contracts, learning assets and user activity with them.
Mobile-first, AI-powered skills learning for emerging markets. Whats not to love.
If you're building a payment agent for Latin America, Celo's x402 facilitator now settles in @RipioHQ's $wARS (Argentine Peso), $wBRL (Brazilian Real), and $wCOP (Colombian Peso).
Your agent charges and pays in local currency, with no conversion or FX risk. ↓
Building agents that make transactions?
Celo's native x402 facilitator now settles in @USAT, alongside USD₮ and @ripiohq's $wARS, $wBRL, $wCOP & more.
Let your agent pay in the stablecoin your users already hold.
Agents on Open Rails: the next @Celo hackathon starts Tuesday, Oct. 6th! Join our kick-off call at 12pm GMT for:
→ All three tracks & incredible partners
→ How to register through Loops House
→ Best practices for your shot at the $5K bounties
RSVP: https://t.co/YLeYAffbrl
The latest @Lisk project to find a new home on Celo is live! Hi, @LearnwayApp 👋
Haven't made the switch yet? Celo Core Co. and Lisk built a migration path to make it as smooth as possible w/ exclusive offers & hands-on support
Fill out the intake form: https://t.co/NRAMw7LQAz
ATTENTION BUILDERS: Agents on Open Rails Hackathon kicks off today with $5K in prizes!
You’ll have five weeks to ship agents that move real value on @Celo: from LatAm stablecoins and onchain FX to services that get paid on their own.
Here's everything you need to know ↓
It's an underappreciated triumph of Ethereum client developers that PeerDAS has now been running for nearly a year with basically no problems.
PeerDAS was a complex task: it's the first large-scale instance of a blockchain that achieves consensus on the availability of data without needing any single node to download the entire block. Decentralized consensus without replication.
And yet, it worked.