"Global Venmo will happen, probably in the next 5 to 10 years, and it's gonna happen on @Celo."
Co-founder @marek_ on the future of payments at @consensus2026, presented by @moonpay.
Six years ago today, Celo mainnet launched on Earth Day! 🥳
The @Ethereum Layer 2 built for the real world has processed 1.27B+ transactions, bringing fast, low-cost stablecoin txs to 600K+ global users every day
What does this look like in practice? Here's a better look ↓
BREAKING: Self, the identity layer for 14M+ users w/ partners incl. @Google and @Opera, acquired Loam
Loam, founded by Birju Shah (ex-@Uber Head of AI), builds multi-agent systems to automate complex, high-stakes transactions, backed by @PackyM, @Lessin’s @Slow, and @Accomplices
It’s crazy we can text a 4k video to a friend halfway across the world but yet can’t easily send the same friend a payment… real-time transaction finality is what we need to get there.
@jillgun in conversation with @KateEldaly on the @Celo L2 year one livestream ⤵️
BREAKING: @usat is coming to Celo, the first chain expansion following @Tether's dollar stablecoin deployment on @ethereum
The launch is supported by Day One Partners @MiniPay, @GoogleCloud & @selfxyz, unlocking real-world adoption at scale ↓
The Jovian Hardfork is now live on Celo Mainnet! 🛠️
If you’re running infrastructure and haven’t upgraded yet, please do so now and verify your configuration is up to date.
Full details in the forum post:
https://t.co/kaNYkEEpac
Thanks to community members, partners, builders & friends who helped celebrate Celo's L2 migration anniversary 💛
Here's to another year of scaling the programmable rails for global finance!
When we started @Celo, the bet was simple: build financial infrastructure for everyone, not just speculators. Mobile-first, stablecoin-native, optimized for the places where better payments actually change lives
@Opera believed in that from the start. Nearly five years ago they saw what we saw and built @MiniPay into a self-custodial stablecoin wallet with 14M+ users across 66 countries and 420M+ transactions
This proposal moves Opera from a distribution partner to a network stakeholder with a 160M CELO allocation, making Opera's incentives more aligned with Celo's and vice versa. I probably don't have to tell you how big of a deal that is
The jobs not done yet though. Next up, 50M Opera browser users are positioned to redeem USDT rewards within MiniPay. Roadshows in Vietnam and the Philippines start next month
The path to a multi billion-dollar onchain economy is getting concrete
🗞️ BREAKING: @Opera goes big on Celo—new proposed 160M CELO stake to transform @MiniPay distribution partner to key network stakeholder
Read more about Opera's path to becoming one of the largest institutional CELO tokenholders & how they’re bringing 50M users into MiniPay ↓
Unironically, I think most alt-L1s will become L2s
@Celo showed the playbook:
– Halved inflation from 2% to 1%
– Reduced block times from 5s to 1s
– Eliminated 300k+ lines of code
– Fully integrated into Ethereum’s ecosystem, the largest dev community
It’s just a better model
📣 @CeloDevs' Build Agents for the Real World hackathon is adding another track!
The Agent Infrastructure track offers additional rewards to builders creating the foundation for efficient agentic activity that can scale globally, from memory storage to discovery networks
Really amazing week @ns! Grateful to be in the room with so many incredible L2 teams building the future of @ethereum together. Huge thanks to everyone who made it happen 🤍