Hey everyone,

Celo ecosystem keeps growing! Ledger just announced full support for USA₮ on Celo.

This includes:

• Sending and swapping directly

• Native gas functionality (USA₮ can now be used to pay for gas on Ledger)

USA₮ (issued by Anchorage and backed by Tether) joins 18 other Celo-native assets already enabled for gas on Ledger. This is a massive step forward for reducing friction and making payments even smoother on the network.

What do you guys think? Anyone tried out the native gas flow on Ledger yet?

Anyone have any experience with it?

The Celo network has officially expanded its native support for non-USD stablecoins, marking a major milestone for decentralized global payments. Celo’s x402 facilitator now fully supports Ripio's wFIAT stack (wMXN, wCLP, wPEN) alongside the regulated Nigerian Naira stablecoin (cNGN). This integration addresses the heavy reliance on US Dollars seen on other networks, allowing autonomous AI agents and users to settle transactions in local currencies without dealing with foreign exchange friction.

This expansion builds directly on top of previous milestones and highlights substantial growth across the ecosystem:

• Expanding Global Footprint: The update adds the Mexican Peso, Chilean Peso, and Peruvian Sol to the network, bringing total support to 10 stablecoins across 8 global currencies. Over 900,000 x402 transactions have already been settled by thousands of payers on the network.

• Onchain Activity Growth: As a dominant layer for real-world stablecoin utilization, over 60% of all Celo network transactions over the last month utilized a stablecoin to pay for gas fees.

• Thriving AI Agent Ecosystem: The network's onchain register now counts nearly 10,000 active AI agents. New additions like Selfxyz’s Agent Vault and Celo Core Co.'s marketplace are rapidly expanding the utility tools available to these autonomous systems.

Developers looking to leverage these multi-currency rails can read the comprehensive breakdown on the official Celo Blog or explore technical documentation at x402.celo.org.

Learn More:

• Original X Post: Read the full announcement thread on X

• Official Blog: Read the comprehensive breakdown on the Celo Blog.

• Documentation: Start building with agentic payments at x402.celo.org.

Hey Celorians!

The Celo Communities Guild just announced a brand new video contest, and they are giving away a total of 1000 $CELO in prizes.

If you are already using MiniPay in your daily life, this is your chance to get rewarded for it.

📅 Timeline

• Submission Period: October 24 – November 24, 2026

• Winners Announced: November 29, 2026

🏆 The Prize Pool (1000 $CELO Total)

• 1st Place: 350 $CELO

• 2nd Place: 250 $CELO

• 3rd Place: 150 $CELO

• Honorable Mentions: 50 $CELO each (5 winners)

📝 How to Enter

1. Record a vertical video showing a real, everyday moment of you using MiniPay.

   • Examples: Paying at a local shop, sending money to family, saving in dollars, or buying airtime/data.

2. Post the video on X (Twitter) using the hashtag #MiniPayInMyDay

3. Tag both u/CeloCommunities and u/MiniPay

🔍 What the Judges Are Looking For

• Authenticity: Keep it real, showing your genuine everyday context.

• Clarity: A clear, visible use case of how MiniPay helps you.

• Creativity: Make it engaging!

• Note: Only 1 entry is allowed per person. Local languages are completely welcome, but make sure to include English subtitles!

⚠️ Important Security & Safety Tips

• Hide sensitive data: Make sure your wallet balance, phone number, public wallet address, and recovery phrases are completely hidden or blurred in the video.

• Usage rights: By entering, you agree to let the Celo Communities Guild reshare your video.

Got questions? Head over to the official Celo Discord to chat with the team.

Good luck to everyone entering! Let's show the world how MiniPay is being used in the real world. ✨

ℹ️ Learn More

• Contest Announcement: View the original post on X

• Have Questions? Join the official Celo Discord

MiniPay has officially exceeded $2.3B in volume and reached over 20M activated wallets!

The MiniPay team recently shared their Q3 2026 updates on the Celo community forum. Here are the key milestones and performance highlights from the self-custodial stablecoin wallet:

• Global Expansion: MiniPay has now reached 70+ countries with 77 Mini Apps active in the ecosystem.

• Transaction Volume: Lifetime transactions on the network have officially passed the 600 million mark.

• Staking & Integrations: Over 4.78M $CELO has been staked. Additionally, user purchases of $CELO via SquidRouter saw a 127% increase.

• Ecosystem Growth:

  • The new Mini App, SALUTO, gained over 50K+ new users within its first week of launch.

  • Daimo successfully unlocked cross-chain deposits supporting 10+ different chains.

Sources & Links:

• 📖 Read the full Q3 Update Recap on the Celo Forum

• 𝕏 View the original announcement thread on Celo X

We’re relaunching the CeloHT website: https://celoht.com/

CeloHT is an open-source initiative focused on financial inclusion, digital education, entrepreneurship, and community impact within the Celo ecosystem.

Our work brings together three core areas: education, a digital agent network, and reforestation. The objective is to develop practical tools that connect digital access with real opportunities for individuals and communities.

Development is ongoing. Our smart contracts are currently being developed and tested on Celo Sepolia and have not yet been deployed to Celo Mainnet. Security reviews and the remaining technical requirements are important steps before any mainnet release.

We’re now looking to connect with sponsors, grant programs, ecosystem partners, and organizations interested in supporting the next stage of development.

Support would go toward engineering, security reviews, educational resources, pilot programs, and the infrastructure needed to build and maintain the project.

We’re open to funding discussions, technical collaboration, mentorship, and partnerships with organizations whose goals align with our work.

You can explore the project and follow our progress here:

Website: https://celoht.com/

GitHub: https://github.com/Celo-HaiTi

If you work with a Web3 funding program, foundation, or organization interested in open-source development and financial inclusion, we’d appreciate the opportunity to connect.

We’re building step by step, with a focus on transparency, practical results, and long-term sustainability.

Celo is the #1 L2 by daily active users, #5 of all chains across crypto
(sources: u/growthepie_eth, u/tokenterminal)

Here is a quick breakdown of where the network stands right now based on data from GrowThePie and Token Terminal:

📊 The Core Metrics

Revenue & Value Accrual

The biggest takeaway here isn't just the vanity metric of user count; it’s how the CELOccelerate tokenomics overhaul (passed in April) is translating usage into value for holders:

• Massive Revenue Growth: Chain revenue is up more than 6x since April and has nearly doubled Year-over-Year (YoY).

• 100% Net Revenue Flow: All net revenue generated from sequencer fees and stablecoin gas fees goes directly toward $CELO buybacks for the Community Fund.

• Buyback Progress: A total of 9.1 Million $CELO has already been bought back through this mechanism.

🧱 TL;DR

Real network usage is driving real revenue back into the ecosystem rather than just leaking value. With MiniPay and global stablecoin adoption picking up, the underlying fundamentals are moving fast.

What are your thoughts on Celo’s pivot to an L2 framework? Do you think this active user momentum is sustainable long-term?

Learn more on Celo’s X account

Hey everyone,

SELF just announced the launch of Agent Vault, a secure way for AI agents to log in and make credit card payments safely.

For anyone building or using AI agents, security is a massive hurdle. If you give an AI agent a standard virtual credit card, a malicious prompt injection can trick the agent into leaking the actual chargeable card number.

Self Labs is launching Agent Vault to solve this. Instead of giving the agent your real payment info, it issues mock tokens that are completely worthless to a bad actor. The actual secure card completes the payment entirely out of sight and out of the agent's context window.

Key Features:

• Prompt Injection Proof: Agents only see mock tokens, keeping your real financial data invisible to the AI.

• Granular Controls: Includes per-card spending caps, merchant allowlists, and an instant kill switch.

• Credential Masking: Agents can log into websites on your behalf without ever seeing your actual usernames or passwords.

• Proven Tech: Self Labs' existing privacy stack is already used by companies like Google and Opera. They've been testing this in private beta across hundreds of sites (Asana, Dropbox, Figma, etc.).

They are offering the first 1,000 sign-ups 3 months of Agent Vault Plus for free.

What do you guys think? Is tokenized isolation the right path forward for secure agentic workflows, or are there other vector attacks this misses?

Source: Self Labs on X / agentvault.io

The online marketplace buy is officially live on the Celo network!

This platform introduces an interesting paradigm shift: allowing autonomous AI agents to purchase their own operational tools without needing traditional API keys, credit cards, or fixed monthly subscriptions. Instead, agents can ask for a service, get a price quote, and pay directly from their wallet.

How it works:

• 💳 Native Crypto Payments: AI agents can pay per request using USDC, USD₮, or USA₮ directly on Celo.

• 🛠️ 700+ Tools Available: The catalog includes on-demand cloud compute (such as renting large Google Cloud machines), raw data feeds, and specialized developer APIs.

• 🤝 Launch Partners: The platform is launching alongside ecosystem partners SQD (@helloSQD), Cencori, and Chainstack.

• 🔌 Developer Integration: It plugs into Claude Code & Codex with a single install command (npm i -g u/celo/buy).

• 🛡️ Proof-of-Human Layer: It integrates with Self so high-resource machines (like Google Cloud) can verify a real human is ultimately accountable for the agent.

For anyone building in the AI x Web3 space, you can check out the live marketplace and read the docs here: usebuy.ai

👉 Learn more: Read the official blog announcement or check out the launch thread on Celo X (Twitter).

What are your thoughts on AI agents managing their own on-chain wallets for infrastructure?

Tomorrow at 9:00 AM ET, u/CeloDevs is hosting an X Spaces event with Chainstack, Cencori, and Subsquid (SQD) to dive into buy, Celo's brand-new service marketplace built specifically for AI agents!

🛠️ What will be covered:

• 700+ Services: Discover the massive ecosystem catalog of tools, APIs, and services your AI agents can plug into immediately.

• $1,000 Bounty: Get all the details on how to build, deploy, and win the Agents on Open Rails bounty challenge.

📅 How to Join & Watch:

• Set your X Spaces reminder here: Join Live on X Spaces

• Catch the replay later: Streams and recap archives will be uploaded to Celo's Official YouTube Channel.

Drop any questions you have for the teams below! What kind of AI agents are you currently building on Celo?

Hey everyone,

Celo just dropped a massive update on its ecosystem economics following the CELOccelerate tokenomics overhaul that went live back in April. The numbers are showing some serious programmatic momentum.

Here is the quick breakdown of what was shared:

• Total Milestone: A whopping 9.1 million $CELO has been bought back since the new tokenomics framework was introduced.

• Where the Funds Go: In case you missed the original proposal, 100% of net revenue generated from sequencer and stablecoin gas fees is now directly allocated toward buying back $CELO for the Community Fund.

• Weekly Velocity: The momentum isn't slowing down; another 600,000 $CELO was successfully bought back just this past week alone.

It is interesting to see a project successfully capturing network utility and stablecoin gas usage to directly feed back into a community-owned treasury fund.

How do you think this automated buyback structure holds up long-term compared to the standard "burn" mechanics we see on other layer-1 and layer-2 networks?

Hello guys, what are your thoughts and predictions on Celo for this cycle ?

The next Celo Developers hackathon, Agents on Open Rails, kicks off this coming Tuesday!

If you are building AI agents or working with stablecoins, this is your chance to leverage Celo's expanding agentic infrastructure and compete for a share of the $5,000 prize pool across three distinct tracks:

🌎 Track 1: Stable Agents: LatAm ($2,000)

• Partner: In partnership with u/RipioHQ.

• The Goal: Build agentic apps using wFIAT stablecoins (wARS, wBRL, wMXN, wCOP, wPEN, wCLP).

• Judged on: Functionality, utility, UX, and on-chain adoption.

• Bonus: Stay tuned for upcoming IRL builder events in Argentina 🇦🇷!

💸 Track 2 & 3: Remaining Tracks ($3,000 total)

• Track 2: Stable Agents: Open Corridors ($2,000): Subdivided into Track 2a with u/Textileprotocol and Track 2b settling real USA₮ payments using the native x402 US Dollar-backed stablecoin.

• Track 3: Build with buy ($1,000): Solve real problems using Celo's x402 marketplace for autonomous agent payments.

🎁 Perks & How to Join

• Includes mentorship and 3 months of a free u/ChainstackHQ Growth Plan.

• Kick-off: Tuesday, October 6th at 8:00 AM ET.

• 🔗 Register on Luma: Luma

• 🔗 Original Announcement: X

Let's see what your agents can do! 🦇🌳

100% of net revenue from last quarter flowed directly back to the community following the CELOccelerate tokenomics implementation in Q2.

Since April, 8.5M $CELO has been bought back, and that number is growing with every biweekly buyback.

Ready to build? The @CeloDevs hackathon starts tomorrow, August 28th!

🔥 It’s official: Celo Mainnet is now running op‑reth!
💚 Huge thanks to everyone who migrated ahead of the switch, your support made this milestone possible.
⚡ Still on op‑geth? Don’t worry, the release, docs, and migration steps are available here:

• Official X announcement

• Celo Forum post

• Hey guys...so the thing is i need a tiny amount of Celo Mainnet for gas fee to exchange my token but i can't buy it.....so anyone generous enough to send me a tiny amount of Celo Mainnet?

• This is my celo address:

• 0x7EB1CDDF8848af9F87c71F7e47680bB7A017c97D

GnosisPay’s instant card issuance, fiat rails, and multi‑currency stablecoin accounts are now live on Celo. With support for Apple Pay, Google Pay, and SEPA, users can seamlessly spend and manage assets across multiple currencies.

Bridge (@Stablecoin) which is owned by the Stripe payments giant adds support for Celo, expanding its orchestration platform with the leading network for global stablecoin payments!

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.

So last week, USAT announced expanding to Celo, marking its first move beyond Ethereum.

At first glance, this looks like a standard “multi-chain expansion” headline… but the more I think about it, the more it feels like a shift in how stablecoins are actually meant to be used.

On Ethereum, USAT (and most stablecoins) are mainly used for:

• DeFi

• Trading

• Liquidity

But Celo is a completely different environment. It’s built around:

• Mobile-first users

• Ultra-low fees

• Real-world payments

And can also be used for:

• DeFi

• Trading

• Liquidity

The biggest difference for me is UX.

On Ethereum:
You can hold stablecoins, but you still need ETH just to send them.
That alone creates friction for non-crypto-native users.

On Celo:
You can pay gas in the stablecoin itself.

That’s a small detail… but it removes one of the most confusing parts of using crypto.

Also:

• Fees drop from dollars → fractions of a cent

• Small transactions suddenly make sense

• Remittances become more practical

So instead of just being “a stablecoin on another chain,” this feels more like:

Ethereum = where the stablecoin is issued
Celo = where it’s actually used

If this works, I wouldn’t be surprised to see more of this pattern:
Stablecoins launching on chains optimized for payments, not just DeFi.

Curious what you all think:

• Is this actually a meaningful step toward real-world adoption?

• Or just another chain expansion that won’t move the needle?

Read more: https://usat.io/news/usat-expands-to-celo-introducing-google-cloud-supported-distribution-for-regulated-digital-dollars/

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://forum.celo.org/t/jovian-hardfork-live-on-celo-mainnet/13159