Week In Celo News(May11—May17)
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Celo Official:
1、cGLD auction sells out on Coinlist on May 13:
Raised $10M from 509 purchasers in 62 countries. the auction cleared the full tranche of 10M cGLD at $1 per token.
There were 3,996 total registrations and 761 bids from 132 countries. The average bid price was $5.02, with more than 50% of the bids coming in above $3 and more than 25% of the bids coming in above $9.
2、Attentions! The deadline of Wave II Celo grants submissions is May 19th! anyone interested in applying for it , the application link is here.
There’s the wish list celo recommend (new ideas are always welcomed:
Tooling to fork mainnet and swap out the validator set to create a “staging” network
UIs for custodial hardware to enable engaging in on-chain governance
Expanding/improving our github.com/celo-org to have java and python sdks available
Applications for ratifying Governance proposals by coordinating/signaling off-chain to then settle on-chain
Analytics + visualization of metrics to support the Celo network
Projects implementing creative approaches with vouchers
Text + messaging providers
Applications for finding people or businesses nearby accepting Celo
Platforms for P2P exchanges of Celo assets
Applications for payroll and wage enablement
3、Make your voice heard! Voting on the TWO new proposals is coming to an end！Come to vote now if you haven’t!
(1) #Prop2— Unfreeze Voter Rewards
(2) #Prop3 —Unfreeze $cGLD Transfers
New to governance? there’s a guide by @AmySlawson1
Where can I see the process and result? it can be seen at here.
4、 Celo dAppKit downloads on npm are up 600% this week，interested in building a decentralized mobile app on Celo? Check out the Getting Started instructions.
5、 Celo shares its progress, roadmap, user traction and developer community activation at #ConsensusDistributed# , @Vanessa and @timmoreton @wonderwill08 @alonshavit_ joined.
6、Events:
May11-15: Consensus Distributed: The Best of Consensus: Free & Virtual
May 13: O programa Celo Grants
May 13: Crypto Post-COVID: Enabling Remote Work for the Most Vulnerable
May 13: Lessons from Running a Virtual Blockchain Accelerator
May 14: Celo Tech Talks - Simplifying blockchain development with the Celo SDK.
Community and Partners:
1、Community tools & updates:
Meet Telegram bot for Celo！built by @Ryabina, it can track any event with any account in Celo Mainnet, use set of pre-configured notifications for User, Validator, Group or Governance or choose Advanced mode and make custom notification manually .
CeloWhale now provides telegram validator notification for Celo Mainnet RC1 and Baklava.
Thecelo.com newly added "locked gold & votes rate" chart and "released cgld & cusd rate" chart in dashboard, feel free to check it out and give us feedbacks.
2、CeloAlliance member @FlexaHQ shared what they’ve learned in the past 364 days since they launched the Flexa network, and their plans for the road ahead.
3、@blockfyre released their new research report on Celo, very insightful!
4、Serious video of celo’s partner a16z, a crypto startup school.
5、Coinlist: Investors on CoinList Pour $10M Into Celo Token Sale in Roughly 12 Hours.
6、Cointelegraph: Virtual Consensus 2020 Kicks Off With ECB Official Discussing CBDC.
Upcoming Events:
May 18-19: Digital-currencies: solution for the new reality?
May 21: Engineering for purpose.
June 1-3: Messari’s Flagship Crypto Event
That’s all for now!
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