Today we’re pleased to introduce Provo, a value-add sandbox for public and official sector experimentation on Celo that’s designed to allow Central Banks to explore and experiment with central bank digital currencies and other digital assets. As Central Banks seek to test, iterate and future-proof our global financial system, Provo…

We’re thrilled to share that Mysten Labs will be joining the Celo ecosystem! Founded by Evan Cheng and leading distributed systems, programming languages, and cryptography experts who worked on the Diem blockchain, Mysten Labs is a new R&D lab that’s focused on creating the foundational infrastructure for Web3 developers. Through…

Aave, Curve, PoolTogether, and Sushi Among Leading Ethereum DeFi Projects Joining Celo on DeFi for the People Collaboration Today, a consortium of leading Ethereum decentralized finance (DeFi) projects announced DeFi for the People, a collaboration of global crypto organizations united by a common goal: bringing DeFi to the 6 billion…

By Nikhil Raghuveera, Celo Foundation The regenerative finance (ReFi) movement is galvanizing Web3 builders to create regenerative economies. As of late, the focus has been on addressing climate change. At the Celo Foundation, we are focused not only on climate change, but also on broad, positive social change. We believe…

Since its launch, the Celo Platform has relied on consensus mechanisms in the blockchain space. It is a proof-of-stake mechanism that relies on community members to vote for responsible validator groups, actively engaging in the governance process and with applications and projects in the Celo ecosystem by staking CELO tokens…

As part of the Celo Foundation’s global mission to create a more inclusive global financial system, the Celo Africa Web3 Fund recently launched to help scale African startup projects building on Celo and aid in blockchain and cryptocurrency adoption. The fund is open to all Africa-based startup applicants, but founders…

After several months of hard work from the teams at cLabs, Abacus, Curve Labs, Bld.Ai, and the Climate Collective, the Toucan Protocol is live on Celo! This deployment means users have the ability to access high-quality, nature-based carbon offsets to hold, use across Web3, or “retire” to claim the underlying…

Highlights: Stani Kulechov, Julien Bouteloup, Pablo Veyrat, and Celo co-founder Marek Olszewski explored how ReFi has evolved over the past year. Kevin Owocki, the founder of Gitcoin, sat down with the Celo Foundation’s Xochitl Cazador for a conversation titled Hyperstructures, Public Goods and ReFi, Oh My! #ReFi trended on Twitter! …

EthicHub, a protocol helping unbanked farmers access capital at low interest rates, has joined the DeFi for the People (DFTP) initiative. EthicHub connects lenders to small unbanked farmers. It also supports the growth of DFTP partners Ubeswap, a mobile-first DeFi exchange, and Symmetric, an automated market maker and a decentralized…