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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.

Celo Ecosystem Projects Raise Over $77 Million in Funding to Support Financial Inclusion, Interoperability, Regenerative Finance (ReFi), and More

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Thursday, October 27, 2022

Great entrepreneurs can raise in any market, says Rene Reinsberg, Celo Co-Founder and Celo Foundation President.

Key Points: 
  • Great entrepreneurs can raise in any market, says Rene Reinsberg, Celo Co-Founder and Celo Foundation President.
  • I am immensely proud of our ecosystem projects in raising over $77 million across various venture rounds.
  • This demonstrates how bullish investor sentiment is in driving mainstream adoption of Web3 and real-world use cases for real people.
  • Hyperlane , an interchain communication protocol and application development platform, raised $18.5 million in seed funding, led by early-stage crypto venture capital fund Variant.

“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 .

Key Points: 
  • 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.

Key Points: 
  • 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.

Histogen Announces CEO Transition

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Monday, November 8, 2021

A search has commenced to identify a permanent CEO.

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  • A search has commenced to identify a permanent CEO.
  • On behalf of the entire Board of Directors, I would like to thank Rich for his leadership throughout his tenure at Histogen.
  • We are confident that Steves experience at the company and proven track record, including prior leadership of the organization will provide a seamless transition at this time.
  • I am confident that we have the innovative technology, proprietary processes along with the right strategy and team at Histogen to be a leader in restorative therapeutics.