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Celo Unveils New Brand Identity

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Wednesday, January 11, 2023

“Brand is often an afterthought in Web3, but mission-driven projects like Celo require attention to storytelling and emotion,” says Deana Burke, the Celo Foundation’s Head of Marketing.

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  • “Brand is often an afterthought in Web3, but mission-driven projects like Celo require attention to storytelling and emotion,” says Deana Burke, the Celo Foundation’s Head of Marketing.
  • “With the rapid growth the Celo ecosystem has seen over the past three years, it felt right to co-create this new brand identity and bring together the people who today shape where Celo is going.
  • I love the result and think it is a true testament to the strength of our community,” says Rene Reinsberg, Celo Foundation President and Celo Co-Founder.
  • To learn more about Celo and its new brand identity, please visit celo.org .

Curve.Finance Launches on Celo

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Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Curve is excited to deploy on Celo, says Julien Bouteloup, who is part of Curves core team.

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  • Curve is excited to deploy on Celo, says Julien Bouteloup, who is part of Curves core team.
  • Celo is unique through its mobile-first design with a diverse ecosystem and user base in regions where real-world crypto adoption is highest.
  • Celo is a carbon-negative, permissionless, layer-1 protocol with a rich ecosystem of global partners building innovative Web3 applications within the DeFi, ReFi, and NFT sectors on Celo.
  • Accessible to anyone with a mobile phone, the Celo ecosystem consists of a decentralized, proof-of-stake blockchain technology stack (the Celo Protocol), the CELO native token, and several Mento stable assets (cUSD, cEUR, cREAL) that enable anyone to use digital assets like currency.

ConsenSys and Celo Announce a Multi-Faceted Partnership to Drive Real-World Adoption and Use Cases

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Monday, November 21, 2022

ConsenSys, a market-leading blockchain technology company, today announced it has partnered with Celo, the carbon-negative, EVM-compatible layer-1 blockchain built for real-world use cases, to drive mainstream adoption of Web3.

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  • ConsenSys, a market-leading blockchain technology company, today announced it has partnered with Celo, the carbon-negative, EVM-compatible layer-1 blockchain built for real-world use cases, to drive mainstream adoption of Web3.
  • We look forward to this long-term partnership with Celos expanding ecosystem and integrating with its permissionless, carbon-negative blockchain built for real-world benefits.
  • Celo and ConsenSys share a long view of Web3 and its powerful potential to create real-world impact, says Xochitl Cazador, the Celo Foundations Head of Ecosystem Growth.
  • The Celo Foundation and the broader Celo community welcome ConsenSys to our ecosystem, which is building for real-world use cases.

“Evolving” NFTs Leveraging Innovative ERC271K Technology Launch on Celo

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Friday, October 21, 2022

Impact Cards , a new dynamic non-fungible tokens (NFTs) alpha that tracks and verifies cross-chain impact contributions, launches on Celo .

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  • Impact Cards , a new dynamic non-fungible tokens (NFTs) alpha that tracks and verifies cross-chain impact contributions, launches on Celo .
  • These evolving on-chain NFTs are self-contained with customizable, dynamic traits whereby users accumulate experience points by interacting with the greater Web3 space.
  • We look forward to unlocking greater access to public goods protocols on Celo through this Impact Cards alpha, says Masha Healy, the Celo Foundations Grant Operations Lead.
  • Celo is a carbon-negative, permissionless, layer-1 protocol with a rich ecosystem of global partners building innovative Web3 applications within the DeFi, ReFi, and NFT sectors on Celo.

Brave Now Supports Celo Blockchain and Dapps

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Friday, September 9, 2022

Celo Foundation President and Celo Co-Founder, Rene Reinsberg says, We are excited to welcome Brave to the Celo ecosystem.

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  • Celo Foundation President and Celo Co-Founder, Rene Reinsberg says, We are excited to welcome Brave to the Celo ecosystem.
  • With its global user base and seamless experience for using dapps directly from the Brave browser and signing transactions with the integrated Brave wallet, people everywhere can more easily participate in the emerging Web3 digital economy.
  • Accessible to anyone with a mobile phone, the Celo ecosystem consists of a decentralized, proof-of-stake blockchain technology stack (the Celo Protocol), the CELO native token, and several Mento stable assets (cUSD, cEUR, cREAL) that enable anyone to use digital assets like currency.
  • Launched on Earth Day in 2020, the open source Celo mainnet now supports 1000+ projects created by developers and artists located around the world.

Uniswap V3 and Green Asset Pools Deploy on Celo for #ReFiSummer

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Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Following the Uniswap communitys approval to deploy on Celo, the Celo Foundation , along with the Climate Collective , partners and community, launches Uniswap V3 and green-asset pools to help further a regenerative financial (ReFi) system and currencies supported by natural capital on the blockchain.

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  • Following the Uniswap communitys approval to deploy on Celo, the Celo Foundation , along with the Climate Collective , partners and community, launches Uniswap V3 and green-asset pools to help further a regenerative financial (ReFi) system and currencies supported by natural capital on the blockchain.
  • As part of #ReFiSummer, Uniswap users will be able to explore the Celo ecosystem and take climate-positive action over the season-long program.
  • To kick things off on Uniswap, the Climate Collective and the Celo Foundation will seed liquidity across several pools, beginning with the Moss carbon credit token pool CELO / MCO2 and CELO / wETH.
  • As a decentralized exchange, the Uniswap Protocol provides deeper liquidity, near-instant settlement, and seamless integration with other protocols.

Flowcarbon and Moola Market Announce Partnership to Unlock Financial Utility for the First Time Using Carbon Credits

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Thursday, June 9, 2022

Our partnership with Moola Market represents the maturation of carbon markets by enabling a new set of permissionless financial tools such as lending, borrowing, and underwriting loans against the value of carbon credits, said Phil Fogel, Chief Blockchain Officer at Flowcarbon.

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  • Our partnership with Moola Market represents the maturation of carbon markets by enabling a new set of permissionless financial tools such as lending, borrowing, and underwriting loans against the value of carbon credits, said Phil Fogel, Chief Blockchain Officer at Flowcarbon.
  • Providing project developers and others in the carbon markets with access to financial products, such as collateralized borrowing, will attract more funding into carbon projects and help scale the voluntary carbon market.
  • Flowcarbon has been collaborating with partners across the blockchain ecosystem in order to build the value stack for the on-chain carbon market.
  • The financial tools provided by the partnership with Moola Market is just one of the ways that price discovery and transparency will be introduced to the carbon market.

Masa Finance Partners with African Fintech Pngme to Provide DeFi Services to Emerging Markets

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Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Silicon Valley DeFi protocol Masa Finance announced today it is partnering with African financial data company Pngme to drive the adoption of DeFi credit services in the region.

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  • Silicon Valley DeFi protocol Masa Finance announced today it is partnering with African financial data company Pngme to drive the adoption of DeFi credit services in the region.
  • This partnership marks the first instance of bringing DeFi lending products and off-chain credit scoring capabilities to emerging markets.
  • Masa is essential for on-chain lending to succeed as demand for DeFi and cryptocurrency services in Africa surge.
  • To learn more about the growing ecosystem of decentralized applications (dapps) bringing DeFi to everyone, visit DeFi for the People.

Flowcarbon Partners With First Carbon-Negative Blockchain Celo to Develop Open On-chain Carbon Market Infrastructure

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Thursday, May 5, 2022

Flowcarbons launch on Celo will create the first liquid market for carbon credits on-chain that is designed to make carbon offsetting widely accessible and transparent.

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  • Flowcarbons launch on Celo will create the first liquid market for carbon credits on-chain that is designed to make carbon offsetting widely accessible and transparent.
  • Building this ecosystem with mission-aligned partners is just as critical to success as having liquidity support behind GNT, said Phil Fogel, Chief Blockchain Strategist and Co-founder of Flowcarbon.
  • The partnership will catalyze the budding regenerative finance (ReFi) ecosystem on Celo, using Flowcarbons infrastructure to drive demand for environmental assets by creating the essential foundation for an on-chain carbon market.
  • The global carbon offset market provides essential financing for developers whose projects reduce and remove atmospheric carbon.

eCurrency and cLabs lay the foundation for Central Bank Digital Currency on Web3

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Monday, April 11, 2022

OAKLAND, Calif., April 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- eCurrency, a leading security technology solution provider that enables central banks to issue central bank digital currency (CBDC), today announced a joint commitment with cLabs, a service organization dedicated to growing and developing the Celo ecosystem, to integrate decentralised finance and Web3 with CBDC.  Both cLabs and eCurrency are mission-aligned in their efforts to create the most digitally connected, secure, efficient, and financially inclusive financial infrastructure. 

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  • Both cLabs and eCurrency are mission-aligned in their efforts to create the most digitally connected, secure, efficient, and financially inclusive financial infrastructure.
  • "The cLabs team is excited to collaborate with such a trusted CBDC provider as eCurrency as central banks develop their thinking on digital currencies."
  • eCurrency Mint (eCurrency) is a research, development and operational company founded in 2011 with the mission to enable central banks to securely and efficiently issue digital fiat currency to operate alongside notes and coins.
  • eCurrency has pioneered the world's first end-to-end solution for central bank digital currency bearer instrument issuance and circulation utilizing the Digital Symmetric Core Currency Cryptography(DSC3) technology.