MarkusMento ◘ fx/acc

Building the future of onchain FX. Working on @Celo as Head of Stablecoins and on @MentoLabs (co-founder). Prev. MD @cLabs & somewhere in TradFi

[MarkusMento ◘ fx/acc @MarkusMento]

Looking forward to that panel today. Payment rails, digital currencies, FX and how those affect agentic commerce.

[Alice ⧉ alisa.bnb @AliceSh15]

Speaking at @AgenticSummit NYC on payment rails for agent commerce.

The question I'd bring up is about agentic infrastructure.

Agentic payments need boring infrastructure before they feel safe.

can the agent understand the product?
access it through an API?
pay for it clearly?
operate within limits?
leave an audit trail?

In finance, UX is also the API, pricing page, permission model, and receipt.

On the panel with @PetrHluze, @_rishinsharma , @philip0x and @MentoLabs .

[MarkusMento ◘ fx/acc @MarkusMento]

@LeonWaidmann @Celo Strong numbers for @Celo and @ethereum

[MarkusMento ◘ fx/acc @MarkusMento]

@TheWencke @ethconf @babesnetxyz WHU meetup 😀

[MarkusMento ◘ fx/acc @MarkusMento]

NYC week incoming 🗽 @AgenticSummit → @stable_summit → @Techweek_. Stablecoins and onchain FX are having a moment, mega excited to be in the middle of it. Thanks Lufthansa for getting the German national team and me across the Atlantic 🇩🇪✈️

[MarkusMento ◘ fx/acc @MarkusMento]

@AgenticSummit Yes, ready 🫡 Agentic Finance will boost onchain trx significantly. Looking forward to it!!

[MarkusMento ◘ fx/acc @MarkusMento]

@marek_ That means a lot, thank you, Marek! Proud of what we built together from the early days and even more excited about what's ahead. Let's keep building. 🚀

[MarkusMento ◘ fx/acc @MarkusMento]

@Lingersj @Celo @cLabs 🫶

[MarkusMento ◘ fx/acc @MarkusMento]

@frerehugi 🫶

[MarkusMento ◘ fx/acc @MarkusMento]

@RegenRene @Celo That means a lot, thank you, Rene! Excited to build alongside you and the Celo community. Big things ahead. 💛

[Celo @Celo]

🗞️ @MarkusMento, Celo core contributor & former Chief Economist at @cLabs, returns as Global Head of Stablecoins!

An early architect of Celo's payment rails, Markus will lead crypto's most widely used stablecoin network & accelerate onchain FX 💱

https://t.co/RpGczQbaGY

[MarkusMento ◘ fx/acc @MarkusMento]

@ethconf @Celo 🙌

[marek.celo.eth 🦇🌳 @marek_]

Onchain FX on @Celo, in one tweet:

💵 Stablecoins for 15+ currencies (USD, EUR, JPY, KES, NGN, BRL, COP, ZAR+ more) via @MentoLabs and others
🏦 Native USDC, USDT, and soon USAT
🔁 Spot via @Uniswap v4 hooks and Mento's new DEX
📈 FX perps on @Updown_xyz

[marek.celo.eth 🦇🌳 @marek_]

Some exciting recent @Celo community highlights:

🟨 Celo upgrades OP-Succinct Lite on mainnet to use SP1 Hypercube from @SuccinctLabs to reduce proof of latency and improve efficiency
🔷 Celo joins @Ethereum’s Open Intents Framework vision for composable, permissionless intents
📰 @BSCNews highlights Celo’s progress in 2026 including 1.3B tx, peak user count of ~840k, and @MiniPay with over 15M registered wallets and more!
🪶 @Featherlend, powered by @Morpho, enables XAUt0 collateral to borrow USDT on Celo with borrow rate 1.67%—nearly ~60% cheaper than rates on Ethereum for XAUt0/USDT (4.03%)
🦸 @SuperchainEco highlights Celo’s total active addresses crossing 19M and @Stablecoin added Celo to its orchestration platform
🟠 @Prezenti_Grants gives Boost Grant to @Jokers_of_Neon, a card game where poker meets deckbuilding
📲 @MiniPay makes tracking digital gold easier by adding XAUt0 balance to wallet home screen
🔰 @Bancor announces Stable-to-Stable rewards on @CarbonDeFixyz, existing $USDm / $USDGLO qualifying strategies keep earning automatically as the next phase goes live.
🟣 @MentoLabs and @Messari launch Onchain FX Initiative with an open directory to track issuers & applications driving local digital currency adoption
⚖️ @StabilaFnd announces @Merkl_xyz incentive campaign with 13%+ APY on Celo-native @Uniswap pools with CELO, stCELO, USDT, wETH, wBTC
👷 @CeloDevs kicks off Onchain Agents hackathon and welcomes all builders to their office hours for builders participating in the hackathon or Proof of Ship

What did I miss?

[MarkusMento ◘ fx/acc @MarkusMento]

FX is the world’s largest market, yet much of its infra still operates on fragmented settlement rails. Project Agorá is another signal that tokenized, atomic, cross-border settlement is becoming strategically important for global finance.

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🔥 BIG: The Bank for International Settlements and partner banks are set to begin live testing its blockchain cross-border payments prototype with real-value transactions under Project Agorá.

[BSCN @BSCNews]

The Celo Ethereum L2 has been ON FIRE in 2026 so far.

Since transitioning to an @Ethereum Layer-2 network, @Celo has been on a tear. We’ve picked some of its biggest milestones from 2026 that you might have missed…

(1) The network has now processed a total of more than 1.3 billion transactions [1.329 billion to be more precise]. Suffice to say this figure speaks for itself.

(2) A peak daily user count of ~840,000 made Celo one of the most used Ethereum L2 networks in existence. The data comes from a report published on @Bitget in April 2026, that report also pointing to a peak of some ~1.3 million monthly active users.

(3) @minipay, the stablecoin-focused wallet built on $CELO, now has more than 15 million registered wallets and has facilitated over 420 million transactions. Given its traction, MiniPay has become a key method for onboarding non-crypto-native users to the Celo ecosystem.

(4) Celo’s network revenue has exploded, reaching an all-time high of ~$18,600 on May 18 of this year. On an annualised basis, this works out to an impressive $6.785 million according to @growthepie_eth. It equates to an increase of +218% over the past year and is the result of Celo’s tokenomic changes, one of which involved increasing the network’s base fee (something that Celo has achieved while maintaining sub-cent transaction costs).

[MarkusMento ◘ fx/acc @MarkusMento]

@victorzh @frerehugi @AUDD_digital @base @Celo @marek_ @MentoLabs @minipay There are 25 different stables live on @celo, all the G7 currencies and many more exotic ones.

[Mento (fx/acc) @MentoLabs]

Today we're launching the Onchain FX Initiative.

An open, ecosystem-driven effort to showcase, connect and accelerate everyone building FX onchain.

https://t.co/lvstya6Oq2

[MarkusMento ◘ fx/acc @MarkusMento]

Check out @AgenticSummit on June 3 in NYC. You will hear a lot on agentic payments from @solana, @NEARProtocol, @MentoLabs, @OpenAI, @MetaMask, @ethereum and many more!
https://t.co/P7ZlJTN0QZ