Celo
About
Empowering mobile users to reshape finance sustainably, for a greener tomorrow.
The Celo Foundation, established in 2017, drives the growth of the decentralized, open-source Celo platform—a mobile-first blockchain aiming to create a carbon-negative, inclusive financial system. Guided by community values, it promotes education, research, environmental health, and outreach to foster prosperity for all. Discover more at celo.org.
Use Cases
Mobile Payments
Send and receive money easily via phone numbers using Celo's mobile-firstblockchain platform.
Cross-border Remittances
Low-cost, fast international money transfers to support families and businesses globally.
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Services
Access lending, borrowing, and asset management through DeFi apps on Celo blockchain.
Financial Inclusion for Unbanked
Empower unbanked populations with simple, secure digital payments and financial services via smartphones.
Key Features
Core Web3 Features
- Celo is an Ethereum L2 scaling real-world solutions & leading a thriving newdigital economy for all.
- Celo is mobile-first, making Web3 universally accessible with low cost,multi-currency gas fees and an ultralight client for lightning-fasttransactions.
- Celo's ecosystem ensures seamless composability across systems.
- Celo uses assets and primitives native to Celo to build a rich ReFi ecosystem.
- Celo allows people to pay with multiple forms of currency like USDC and USDT.
Ecosystem and Community
- Over 1,000 projects from 150+ countries build with Celo.
- Celo is building a community with many different perspectives and experiences.
- Celo is supported by a community of organizations and individuals, includingJack Dorsey, a16z, and Deutsche Telekom.
- Celo enables native and non-native digital assets–both cryptographic andCentral Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs)–to circulate freely across devices,carriers, and countries.
- Celo supports 1000+ projects from builders, developers, and artists, whoeveryday create new applications and issue digital currencies from over 100countries around the world.
(Founder)
Sep Kamvar
(Founder)
Marek Olszewski
Rene Reinsberg (Founder
President)
Website
celo.org
1,000+
projects building with Celo
150+
countries represented in ecosystem
