Covering Celo — Issue 9
Celo Announces Cross-Chain Bridge Integration with WormHole
Wormhole is a cross-chain interoperability protocol that has joined Celo.
“This has exciting implications for the Celo community, including:
✅Lightning fast bridging
✅Cross-chain interoperability with the largest ecosystems in web3
✅A new route to attract large-scale liquidity,” said a June 20 tweet from Celo.
BitKeep Now Supports Celo Mainnet!
Users will be able to hold and use $CELO, $cUSD, $cEUR, and $cREAL in transitions on the BitKeep wallet. Learn more at https://t.co/Bng0pr0gvW.
It’s a ReFi Summer!
The summer solstice hit and Celo took to Twitter to celebrate the beginning of ReFi Summer! The twitter thread shares what Celo has learned about ReFi and the hopes for the future. Celo looks to regenerative economics and regerantive DeFi to lead the future. “Let’s work together to make ReFi Summer last into the decade….and the century,” said a June 21 tweet from Celo.
Cyberbox Announces Launch of NFT Certificates
Buy a personal NFT to become carbon neutral and gain a unique certificate each month. One NFT is equal to one ton of CO2 offset. “Announcing 🎺 the launch of our #ReFi NFT Certificates to welcome the #refisummer 🎉🌱
June certificate is available until the end of the month ⏳,” said a June 24 tweet from Cyberbox. “You get a beautiful #NFT and contribute to achieve a carbon negative status.”
Zeroswap Officially Integrates Celo
Celo has joined Zeroswap and is officially integrated on the Zero Swap Dex! “Our DEX aggregator allows users to access #gasless & seamless trades on the $CELO Chain 🔁,” said a June 28 tweet from ZeroSwap. To learn more see https://t.co/vi1pvduGwT.
“Celo Playgrounds: Celebration of Diversity” Hackathon Goes Live
The hackathon, in conjunction with Github, had 17 bounties focusing on raising awareness for the LGBTQ+ community. The hackathon ran through July 9 and offered more than $15,000 in prizes.
Celo Announces Graph Hack Winners
First place for Graph Hack went to Punchcard, second place to UpliftDAO, both in Community Commerce. In Regenerative Economies and Climate GreeNEAR took first place.
Plastiks Joins Celo
“#ReFi Summer 🏖continues to build momentum as we celebrate the launch of the
@Plastiks_io NFT marketplace on Celo. 🎉,” said a June 30 tweet from Celo. Plastiks creates NFTs out of invoices from recovery projects and recyclers. The NFTs are tokenized plastic credits representing certain amounts and types of recovered plastics. To learn more see https://app.plastiks.io/.
Check out Celo Composer To Help Kickstart Production
“Earn bounties for improvements in the functionality, docs, design, or any other ideas you have to make Celo Composer an incredible experience for @CeloDevs. 🤩,” said a July 1 tweet from Celo.
Check Out Web3athon!
There is still time to join a team for Web3athon! The virtual hackathon will run through Aug. 31. “It’s time to start imagining a better future for Blockchain Technology. 💪🏼 ,” said a July 4 tweet from Celo. “Register now >> http://Web3athon.xyz.”
Celo Team Grows by Two
Celo welcomed two new members to their team. Deana Burke will join as head of marketing and Jane Khodarkovsky will join as general council. To learn more see here https://bit.ly/3oe3TmA.
Celo Block Explorer Has New Home
“To increase compatibility with #web3 wallets, CeloScan is now available at http://celoscan.io. 🎉,” said a July 6 tweet from Celo. “You can still access it via http://celoscan.xyz (and http://celoscan.com). 🙌”
Winners From Celo Camp Batch 5 Announced
The eight-week virtual program has released the next set of winners. Plastiks, an NFT marketplace which creates and trades NFTs based single-use plastics, took the gold prize of 10,000 cUSD and 2,000 CELO. To learn more about the winners see https://bit.ly/3ocjtz3.
Symmetric Launches 80/20
‘Tomorrow we kick off the launch of our 🌞80/20🌞 $ETHIX / $CELO pool by co-incentivizing with our precious $SYMM. Add liquidity now & start collecting $SYMM & $ETHIX tomorrow,” said a July 6 tweet from Symmetric.
Celo Africa Web3 Fund GOes Live
“Successful applicants will secure access to equity investors, venture capital funding, DEX Listing opportunities, and (much) more,” said a July 6 tweet from Celo. Applications are open in Kenya. Uganda, Nigeria, and South Africa. Learn more here.
Celo Hosts August Bookclub
“The Celo Community x @clim8collective is hosting a #ReFiSummer bookclub in August, and you’re invited to participate.📚.” said a July 12 tweet from Celo.
Uniswap V3 Deploys on Celo
“This deployment is just the beginning of a #ReFiSummer for the ages,” said a July 13 tweet from Celo.
Celo Stalls at block 14,035,19
The network stalled but was back up and running one day later. “Update: Celo validators have resolved the network’s first outage since mainnet launch on April 22, 2020,” said a July 14 tweet from Celo. “A thorough and expedited technical analysis is ongoing and details will be readily shared with the Celo community.”
Celo Tokens on ZeroSwap Have Access to Uniswap
“We are pleased to announce that users swapping @CeloOrg tokens on the @ZeroSwapLabs DEX can now access the #UniswapV3 liquidity,” said a July 14 tweet from ZeroSwap. This will offer a simpler and seamless swapping onchain. To learn more see https://t.co/vi1pvdcxiL.
Join Celo for a Pilot
“Interested in joining one of @CeloOrg pilots?,” said a July 15 tweet from Celo. “For those in San Francisco, here’s your chance! Sign up as a participant for NFTs-for-Commerce, a pilot to test NFT-backed rewards.” To learn more see https://atlascafenft.simple.ink/.
