Celo Biweekly Newsletter(Aug17-Aug30)
Since mainnet launch, the Celo community has really grown a lot in the past 3 months!
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Celo Official:
1, The result of Wave II Funding is out! 175 Submissions received for funding from over 50 Countries and over $1M in value awarded!
In this wave, the Celo Foundation has awarded more than $1,000,000 worth of funding. The projects contribute their focus to supporting, building, and sustaining the Celo ecosystem, many focused on real use cases and helping people around the world.
Different types of funding cover important areas including privacy research, oracles, applications, and community currencies, as well as local education to help strengthen and nurture the Celo community.
2, Still don’t know what is CELO /cUSD and where to get them? here comes the official guide. currently, CELO is available for purchase on Bittrex, Coinlist, OKEx, and OKCoin. when September 1st, it will on Coinbase Pro.
3, Since mainnet launch, the Celo community has really grown a lot in the past 3 months! check out Rene’s berif overview!
- Discord members up 5x!
- Grant / funding applications up 4x!
- CeloAlliance over 100 organizations strong!
4, What brings those excellent people to Celo community? What is the magic behin all this? Henry Zhang, an interning developer relations engineer at cLabs, chatted with ten community builders at cLabs and eight insights surfaced, check it out! —“Redesign Your Community-Building Strategy”.
5, Oluwashina Peter join the Celo team today as the Africa growth lead on Aug 20th.
6, Don’t miss Cody Born ‘s latest article if you’re a developer —“The Celo Stability Machine”, which explores the process of upgrading the machine to produce other types of assets.
7, Events of past two weeks:
Aug 20th: Protocolo de Estabilidad de Celo
Aug 21th: Celo Tech Talks Part 8 - Valora
Aug 28th: Celo Tech Talks Part 9 - Engineering in the field
Aug 28th: Introducción al Protocolo Celo para Colombia
Community&Partners:
1, Yellow Card, the world's first cryptocurrency gift card, raised $1.5 million from Polychain, Andreessen Horowitz, and Celo through the Celo Ecosystem Fund. The goal of the raise is to help Yellow Card grow and expand out of Nigeria, South Africa and Botswana where they are currently most dominant.
2, Celo Ambassador @DyaniPhumza is a founder of the Pan African Network for Investment & Development (PANfID) & one of celo’s 1st Ambassadors in South Africa. read her latest article to learn why democratization of financial services is a must for Africa.
3, The blockchain-as-an-infrastructure company Bison Trails has launched double-signing protection software that’s designed to “de-risk” participation in blockchain networks. Customers participating in the Kusama and Tezos networks will gain access first, with Celo, Cosmos and Polkadot to follow.
4, Figment Networks have officially joined the Celo Alliance, check out what they think about building on Celo’s mission.
5, @BlockchainEdu, the blockchain education network , has joined the Celo Alliance for Prosperity!
Upcoming Event:
Sep 4th: Celo Tech Talks Part 10 - Keeping Phone Numbers Private
Sep 11th: Celo Tech Talks Part 11 - Celo Blockchain
Sep 25th: Protocolo de Estabilidad de Celo
That’s all for past two weeks!
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