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MiniPay, the self-custodial stablecoin wallet built by Opera (NASDAQ: OPRA) only on Celo has exceeded $2.3B in volume & 20M in activated wallets!

Q3 updates posted to the Celo Community Forum include:

→ Reaching 70+ countries w/ 77 Mini Apps
→ Transactions on the "Buy $CELO" Mini App by Squid increasing 127%
→ Lifetime transactions passing 600M
→ 4.78M $CELO staked & more

Read the full recap for additional milestones & a look at what's to come in Q4, from $USAT integration to expanded availability of the MiniPay Card: https://forum.celo.org/t/minipay-update-q3-2026

Celo Core Co. is proud to support the #Binance100 Awards 2026 as an Ally Partner!

Last year's first-ever awards allowed the opportunity to celebrate some of the most influential voices in crypto, rewarding their contributions to the education of the broader Binance ecosystem.

This year continues the trend, and nominations are now open! Congratulations to all of the nominees.

Cast your vote today: https://www.binance.com/en/square/blockchain-100-2026

Celo is proud to join Binance Campus Asia this week!

Learn more about the Celo ecosystem's latest updates, from leading stablecoin adoption with 20 currencies onchain and facilitating over 25% of Tether USD₮ transactions to the growing agentic economy.

We're excited to meet members of the Binance Affiliate community!

BREAKING: Celo is the #1 network by 30-day token holder growth, with 67.1M unique $CELO holders

Opera's $CELO Rewards, first announced alongside their 160M $CELO ecosystem stake, is now live: users of the global browser are redeeming rewards in Celo's native asset.

Celo's market share by token holders is 4x greater than all remaining Ethereum Layer-2s combined.

BREAKING: Gnosis Pay now supports Celo!

Gnosis Pay's instant card issuance, fiat rails & multi-currency stablecoin accounts are now live on Celo w/ support including Apple Pay, Google Pay & SEPA

Celo has facilitated 200M stablecoin transactions & exceeded $565M in transaction volume in the past 30 days, with sub-cent fees & 1-second finality

Gnosis Pay expands Celo's global stablecoin payments footprint to anywhere Visa is accepted, across Europe, the UK & beyond

New All-Time High: Celo daily network revenue reaches $6,349.49

Onchain profit continues to increase following the $CELO tokenomics upgrade, CELOccelerate, last month 🙌️️

Breaking news from Consensus Miami: Bridge now supports Celo!

The Stripe-owned stablecoin orchestration platform has added Celo-native USDC support to its API for onramps, offramps, and crosschain bridging.

Learn more about Bridge and Celo's partnership to expand global stablecoin adoption: https://blog.celo.org/celo-goes-live-on-bridge-bringing-one-of-cryptos-most-active-stablecoin-networks-to-the-2e3fc87050f0

The CELOccelerate Tokenomics Proposal has passed community governance, with 97%+ in favor! 🎉

The Celo ecosystem has spoken, and the network's economic model is leveling up with CELO buybacks, base fee increases & more

The execution of CELOccelerate unlocks:
→ Net sequencer revenue flows to the Community Fund; the community can propose to burn it
→ Base fee increasing at a steady, pragmatic rate
→ Carbon Offset Fund pausing, w/ an existing 25x surplus

The gradual base fee increase over the coming weeks ensures growing network usage benefits CELO stakeholders, while maintaining sub-cent transaction costs.

This Just In: Grayscale includes CELO in its Q2 2026 Assets Under Consideration

🗞Breaking: USA₮ is coming to Celo, the first chain expansion following Tether's dollar stablecoin deployment on Ethereum.

The launch is supported by Day One Partners MiniPay, Google Cloud & Self Protocol, unlocking real-world adoption at scale.

USA₮'s upcoming deployment will expand Tether's ecosystem on Celo, bringing the stablecoin to the leading programmable rails for global finance.

🗳️ It's Official: the Celo community voted in favor of making Opera a key network stakeholder with a 160M CELO allocation!

This deepens Opera & Celo's alignment to build & scale MiniPay, one of fintech's fastest-growing wallets, beyond its 14M+ users for the years to come

What's next?

→ New geographic regions, incl. LATAM & Southeast Asia
→ New asset integrations, incl. BTC, ETH & CELO
→ Further embedding MiniPay
in Opera's suite of products
→ Onboarding 50M+ Opera Browser users eligible for rewards w/ Celo-native USD₮

Opera commits big to Celo, proposing new 160M CELO stake to transform MiniPay distribution partner to key network stakeholder

Opera and Celo Core Co. have proposed a restructuring of their commercial partnership that would mark a significant evolution in their nearly five-year collaboration. The partnership model is based on an allocation of 160 million CELO to Opera, which will, in turn, enable Opera’s continued deep integration and distribution of Celo stablecoins, further establishing Opera’s long-term incentive to support the ecosystem's success as a key stakeholder.

Opera has committed to holding the allocated CELO, directly tying its long-term incentives to the success of the ecosystem.

Since MiniPay launched in September 2023, the self-custodial stablecoin wallet built on Celo has grown to more than 14 million users across 66 countries, facilitated over 420 million transactions, and helped establish Celo as the leading Ethereum Layer 2 by daily active users.

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Tether the world’s leading stablecoin issuer, announced the expansion of USD₮ and Tether Gold (via XAUt0*) support within MiniPay, Opera’s self-custodial wallet built exclusively on Celo.

Since MiniPay’s USDT integration, Celo has become the fastest-growing native USDT chain, with 506% user growth in the past 12 months, $96M+ USDT transferred between wallets, and 3.5M+ P2P payments in December 2025 alone.

Learn more: https://tether.io/news/tether-and-opera-expand-financial-access-in-emerging-markets-through-minipay/

This just in from Bankless: “Celo is the most underrated chain."

- #1 L2 w/ ~700K+ daily active users (@growthepie_eth)
- #1 chain for weekly active users of USDT ahead of Tron (@tether)
- Explosive adoption across emerging markets thanks to @minipay

Listen to Celo co-founder marek_’s interview to learn more about the ecosystem’s journey, growth & roadmap for 2026:
https://bit.ly/4rozCA7

📣Now Live: Proposed next steps for Celo's economic overhaul, including CELO buybacks allocated from at least 50% of network profits, with the majority permanently burned to create deflationary tokenomics as the network scales.

This comes as Celo's network revenue grew at an accelerated rate last year, increasing 10x since January 2024. This revenue growth sets the groundwork for a meaningfully impactful buyback-and-burn mechanism, which onchain activity growth initiatives will accelerate.

The post also introduces a tiered fee structure that maintains ultra-low gas for stablecoin microtransfers while implementing higher fees for large transactions.

Celo has proven product-market fit with global stablecoin growth. Now the economics must support sustained network growth and ensure value flows back to CELO holders, a pivotal moment where network utility translates directly into deflationary pressure and holder value.

Read the Forum Post to learn more: https://t.co/lnYitXO0gQ

Monthly active addresses on Celo are at an all-time high of 1.7m, up ~50% in the past six months. (Source: Token Terminal)

ICYMI: CELO is included in Grayscale's Q1 2026 Assets Under Consideration 👇

🚨 Just in: a note from Celo co-founder Rene Reinsberg on shaping the future of CELO tokenomics:

Celo is entering a new era. 2025 has been a year of transformation and massive growth, becoming the #1 L2 by DAUs, leading transport layer for USDT, and real-world apps onboarding millions of users to the Celo ecosystem. This progress makes it clear - we’re ready for upgraded tokenomics that scale with our rapidly growing network, considering CELO buybacks & burn mechanisms, and refine long-term economics to support the next decade of the ecosystem.

We propose the CELO Tokenomics Initiative, a community-wide effort driven by @cLabs and the Celo Foundation to redefine network economics. While tokenomics have evolved over the five years since mainnet launch, including the Great Celo Halvening, which reduced inflation to 1%, it’s time for an economic model that reflects Celo today: a leading Ethereum Layer 2 used by millions and still growing.

Together, we invite the community to shape CELO economics that are optimized for the millions of transactions the network facilitates every day.

Our Vision 2030, bringing a trillion-dollar economy onchain to @Celo, positions the network for significant revenue growth. We’re already on the right path, with network revenue up 10x since early 2024, and killer apps like @MiniPay onboarding 11M+ users and facilitating 300M+ stablecoin transactions since launch.

The pieces are in place: we have cutting-edge infrastructure, we have global distribution. Now, our work is ensuring network usage benefits the community supporting and driving this activity. This next step is for all of us, together, and will help define the ecosystem for years to come.

Join the discussion in the Celo Community Forum as we build the future of CELO together and shape this new era.
https://forum.celo.org/t/launching-the-celo-tokenomics-initiative-designing-the-next-era-together/12749

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