The inaugural Celo Connect conference kicked off in Barcelona, Spain, this week from April 4th and ends on 5th, 2022 during Barcelona Blockchain Week.
The aim of the event is to bring together the expanding Celo community to empower the world’s changemakers with tools, knowledge, and inspiration to contribute to a financial system that creates the conditions of prosperity for all.
Celo Connect Day One Key Highlights
The event officially began by a keynote by the founders of Celo — Rene Reinsberg, Sep Kamvar, and Marek Olszewski about their vision for a truly global and inclusive financial system.
The event provides a good platform to connect the global blockchain community as they tackle trending topics such as sustainable stable assets, regeneration and ReFi, socioecological design patterns in Web3, NFTs, community building, gamified DeFi, equity in Web3, and more.
On the sidelines of the event, we managed to sit down with Celo Co-Founder Rene Reinsberg to chat about the vision and future of Celo. The interview will be aired Wednesday on our youtube.
At the event, the Celo Foundation announced the launch of Connect the World, a $20M campaign to incentivize the development of high-quality Celo on- and off-ramps around the globe. In tandem, the Foundation also introduces FiatConnect, an open source API specification for payment providers that will make integrations more scalable and easier than ever.
The campaign begins with an offer of $50K to the first payment provider in each country to integrate FiatConnect and demonstrate an on- and off-ramp that meets the quality bar. The Foundation will also subsidize on-ramp fees of up to $100K for all providers, making it more affordable for users to access Celo assets.
Our team is on the ground to bring you live updates from Barcelona via our twitter handle; @kenyanwalstreet
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