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Celo Official:
1, New proposal is voting now!
Censusworks is proposing to rename Celo Gold (cGLD) to just Celo (CELO), says this will provide a clear differentiation between the Celo native asset and the suite of Celo stablecoins. what do you think? let’s hear your voice! the voting process and results can be seen at here.
2, An update on the Celo Camp and an introduction to Celo Camp’s new partnerships.
(1) The Top 7 teams to move on in the competition: Air Protocol from Mexico, d-event from Belgium, impactMarket from Portugal, Kesholabs from Kenya, Kotani Pay from Kenya, MugglePay from China, and PARSIQ from Estonia.
(2) Celo Camp has formed partnerships with 2 wonderful companies! Band Protocol will provide an oracle solution to connect real-world data and APIs to Celo’s smart contracts, and Figment Networks will provide free fully synced ready to go Celo nodes!
3, For those who’re concerned about the Foundation voting for cohort 3, clabs shares the tentative timeline. this mainly concerns validators from cohort 1 and those who did not previously receive Foundation votes. Cohort 2 validators do not need to apply for cohort 3.
- 6/15: Applications open
- 7/1: Applications closed
- 8/2: Votes cast based on policy here.
clabs and Celo foundation have felt anguish and sadness over the last several weeks, as the killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor and the countless others before them. so here’s what Celo is doing:
the Celo Foundation has committed to supporting Black entrepreneurs through a combination of grants, fellowships, investments, and interest-free loans totaling $1 million over the next 24 months. And this week cLabs employees have donated $35k to organizations working on racism and oppression, including Black Girls Code, Code 2040, Equal Justice Initiative, Center for Policing Equity, SPLC, BLM, and NAACP LDF.
5, Events:
Tuesday June 2nd, 8 AM PST : The mainnet Panel —Ready Layer One Redux (English) - Rene Reinsberg (Celo, co-founder)
Tuesday June 2nd, 10:50 AM PST: the mainnet Proof-of-Work Updates (English) - Xochitl Cazador (cLabs, Ecosystem Growth) and Tim Moreton (cLabs, Engineering)
Thursday June 4th; 9 AM PST Plumo: Towards Scalable Interoperable Blockchains Using Ultra Light Validation Systems (English)- Michael Straka (cLabs, Cryptography)
Friday June 5th; 8 AM PST Prosper Series: How Blockchain Brings Prosperity to Migrant Workers (English) Marco Montes Neri (Saldo, Founder)
Community&Partners:
1, In the next release of Hummingbot (ETA 2 weeks), they will be officially supporting Celo blockchain protocol and releasing a new algorithmic trading strategy called celo-arb. This strategy will allow anyone with cGLD or cUSD to earn arbitrage profits while contributing to the stability of the Celo protocol.
2, Consuswork’s post on “Why we should rename Celo Gold”, explains the reason why they propose the governance #4—Rename Celo Gold to Celo Native AssetUpvote.
3,How to participate in the Celo governance through Celovote, posted by wotrust.
4,Celo validator roundup on May 2020, by @Zviad Metreveli of wotrust.
5,A telegram community group for discussions of cGLD, click here to join in.
6,thecelo.com is collecting info to complete the identify section of groups page, so we’re calling you to check these info and give us feedback if there's something wrong or missing. Or you can just fork and modify by yourself and then pull request to Bi23 Labs, we'll merge that asap.
Upcoming Event:
June 26, 12:00 AM PST: Celo Tech Talks - Proof of Stake.
That’s all for last week!
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