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Celo Official:
1, Hooray!Celo Mainnet is here!
On May 19, RC1 is officially Mainnet! Governance proposals 2 and 3 have passed! Transfers and rewards are enabled now !
Anticipated next steps for the Celo Platform include: bringing off-chain prices for Celo Gold on-chain through a series of Oracles, Celo Dollars going live, and finally, Mainnet release of the Celo Wallet. more details of celo map/milestone can be seen here.
Everyone at celo team received gifts from co-founders as they celebrated the Mainnet launch. They are planting 250 trees per every employee in Muy, Muy, Nicaragua. what a amazing and interesting team!
@katie_haun of a16z (which is one of the celo backers)congrats clabs on the celo mainnet launch.
A lovely video of the celo validator community celebreating the live of Mainnet.
2,New Listing!The Celo Gold (cGLD) wallet is open and trading has begun on Bittrex. Markets: BTC-cGLD, ETH-cGLD, USD-cGLD, USDT-cGLD.
3, The application for Wave II Celo Grants Program has been closed on May 19. the next step is to wait for the evaluation. If approved, applicants will be informed by June 30th.
4,There’s an Epoch Rewards Issue come up on May 20, several validators reported an issue where they noticed they were not receiving rewards this epoch. cLabs have identified the cause, validators and groups are recommended to lock up a small amount of cGLD over 10k (eg. 10,000.1) to avoid hitting this bug.
5, A must listen podcast: Finding Purpose in Web3 .
Jamie discussed the importance of purpose to mobilise communities in Web 3 with Rene Reinsberg, he shares Celo’s intense social mission to finally deliver on the decade long promise for crypto-currencies to achieve genuine financial inclusion when compared to Libra and how he convinced some of Silicon Valley’s largest VCs like A16z that it was good business.
6, Events of last week:
May 18-19: Digital-currencies: solution for the new reality?
May 21: Engineering for purpose.
Community and Partners:
1, Curious about how governance on Celo works? @ChorusOne wrote an overview of the current governance mechanism.
2, Just acquired some shiny new Celo Gold? Wondering how to manage it? check out "The Gold-Holders Guide to Celovote” by Consusworks.
3, Modern Consensus: Celo mainnet launch paves way for nearly free cross-border payments.
4, Cointelegraph: Celo’s cLabs Launches Mainnet After Raising $40 Million.
Upcoming Events:
May 28: Diffussion Digital—The ultimate Web 3 experience without leaving your home
June 1-3: Messari’s Flagship Crypto Event.
That’s all for now!
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