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Celebrating Celo's Five-Year Anniversary π
Recorded: April 22, 2025 Duration: 0:47:21Space Recording
Short Summary
Celo celebrates its fifth anniversary with significant milestones, including a surge in user adoption, the launch of innovative financial products, and a commitment to real-world applications. The community reflects on the project's growth trajectory, emphasizing its mission to create a more accessible financial system for all.
Full Transcription
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. ΠΡΠΎΠ΄ΠΎΠ»ΠΆΠ΅Π½ΠΈΠ΅ ΡΠ»Π΅Π΄ΡΠ΅Ρ... Thank you. so
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what you happy birthday
gmgm happy birthday
oh man two birthdays in a year merrick
it's crazy yeah we're gonna celebrate uh the lt transition every year and the original birthday
that's gonna be a lot i mean why say no to the chance to have two parties you know
it's like asking a kid if it doesn't want presents twice the cake i love it let's do it
exactly do we have cake today i have some cake here just had a donut it's also pretty good
all right all, party people.
Wow, so many familiar faces.
I love it.
I love it.
Okay, we have some pretty dense materials prepared.
So buckle in for the next three hours. We're going to run through some blockchain stats.
Did you say dense or did you say dense?
Because with that last song, I'm ready to dance.
No, I'm joking.
I'm joking.
This is a party.
This is a party.
Okay.
Give me a heart, people, if you have a beverage by your side.
Just get everyone ready here for the cheers moment.
yeah, I think maybe high
level agenda for this.
We just want everyone to have a good
time. I think we're going to
say a few things to kick us off here
and warm us up, and then we're going to
also popcorn it
around a bit. We want to hear from everyone.
We have I think a lot of folks here who've been in the community for many years some since
very much the the birth of the protocol five years ago and you know I was over
the weekend Mary I don't know how it was for you. Over the weekend, I did a little reflecting and kind of looking back.
And I mean, shit, April 2020.
What a wild time, right?
COVID had just struck.
We're all in lockdown.
And somehow this thing was born.
Pretty crazy.
My memories are a bit hazy.
How about you? Yeah, you yeah no i mean it was
obviously a special moment um i like the joke that we we birthed a teenager that day uh five years
ago we um you know we launched um you know obviously with uh for stake and i think we were
amongst the first evm uh chain to do that but the other thing that we launched with was full-on chain governance.
And so from day one, you know, Cello was effectively decentralized.
And in that moment, we, you know, gave up pretty much all control over the whole evolution of Cello.
You know, so we skipped all of the, you know, the baby stage and the toddler stage and the preteen stage and just
went full on teenager on day one. So I remember that was a pretty big and exciting moment.
Yeah, it's crazy that it was five years ago now. Absolutely. One thing I will say and I think it's nice to see and I'm excited to hear
from some of the folks on the spaces later. So much of the conversations five years ago in terms of
what we're trying to build, where we're trying to go with this, what kind of problems we're eager to solve. I see a great deal of consistency there.
You know, and I think crypto in those five years has undergone, obviously, an insane transformation,
especially kind of more recently. And yeah, I think there would have been lots of opportunities
to get distracted and move on to something else.
But yeah, it's great to see not just the core team, but also so many builders stay true
to what they came for and keep building to solve real world problems.
Are you saying we didn't launch Selo five years ago to power meme coins?
Is that what you're saying?
It wasn't the original white paper, Merrick.
Page four, I think, somewhere on the bottom.
Very forward thinking.
Who would have known?
Content coins.
Content coins.
Yeah.
I agree. I mean, what's crazy is if you read that white paper, so much of what we had hoped would happen has now happened in earnest.
And it didn't happen, you know, as part of the, like within the CELO protocol, a lot of it happened are on the call who have been relentlessly, you know, building and
who, you know, got excited about Celo's mission and vision. And so it's extremely heartwarming to
have these, you know, moments when we can reflect and just look at, holy crap, like we have done so
much. And as you said, it was so much of it is just true to that initial vision in that white paper.
It's incredible. Amazing. For anyone who just popped in here, just because they're bored on X
and this was the only space that's available, Salo's mission is and has always been to create a new financial system
or economic system that can bring the conditions of prosperity for all,
for everyone.
And I think you really see that when you look at what people have been
building on top of Salo.
And I would invite everyone uh to get a seller wallet
and start using it start playing with it um give all the amazing applications a try we have a few
folks coming up on stage later and they can share some of the stuff they're building but yeah i'm
i will say one thing that has kept me excited to keep going is that, you know, every day, every week, there's something new.
And there's something exciting, something where I can learn, new application to use, you know, someone pushing the boundaries.
I love that there's also just a lot of experimentation happening.
You know, I think especially now with AI,
a lot more things are possible. I'm seeing some of the experiments that are happening,
even using kind of AI for better governance, right?
And that's super exciting,
something that I don't think anyone had on their map
five years ago.
And so awesome to see Salo as a home for some of this work
and some of this experimentation.
And now, you know, with sort of Celo being in L2,
an exciting time too to help bring some of that
to the broader Ethereum ecosystem.
A hundred percent.
And, you know, this is the first time we're celebrating
birthday as an L2, which is, you know, this is the first time we're celebrating birthday as an L2, which is,
you know, super, super exciting. I have to say it feels extra, extra good celebrating this year.
Just feels, you know, just right. And yeah, just really, really nice to be home.
Those of you who haven't been following kind following Cello's origin story and history,
you know the reason that we say that it feels good to be home is because Cello initially started,
you know, the origin story was one around us building a really easy to use Venmo-like
wallet on top of Ethereum back in 2017, 2018.
And we couldn't make it easy enough to use
for your typical normie.
And so that took us down the path of building
our own EVM compatible alt L1.
Because that's what you did back then right there was no ethereum scaling roadmap there
was no way to kind of be part of ethereum and and launch your own chain that you know had the
features that you needed to build this really easy to use um easy to use kind of wallet and
of course we did that you know and it launched five years ago and it's
pretty cool i mean from a technology perspective you know i think i just mentioned this before we
were the first evm l1 to launch with proof of stake we we launched with full launching governance
way before many many other chains did that we We launched a stable coin platform pretty much in the first few months as
well. And we had all of these features to make building that really easy to use wallet possible
and like the ability to pay for gas with tokens. I think Ethereum is hard forking in a few weeks and they're going to add you know this this feature uh you know to
to Ethereum um through account abstraction and you know just crazy to see you know that that we've
been running a network in production using this feature for five years now. It's just amazing.
And of course, we launched that wallet,
which later spun out and now is Valora.
It's crazy.
And now, you know, we're doing all this and more,
you know, as part of, as an L2 within Ethereum.
It just feels really good to be back.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Maybe in a couple minutes, let's go and hear from some of the folks here on the spaces.
So if you're on and you want to say a few words, get ready, go push that button.
I'll say one more thing and maybe at the end when we kind of wrap
can share also some thoughts on
what I think the next five years will look like
but I do
really feel right now
there's this kind of
battle kicking off
for crypto soul
where
I think there's no more excuses. This tech, you know,
can't be used for good, but not enough people are really trying to do that. We are, I think many of
you are working with us or working also towards good use cases. And really hope that you know we can be even stronger be a
stronger voice uh for this for this industry um and yeah i i think it's kind of in a way like
probably the most important time ever for for this industry because the tech is ready and it's just a matter of taking it to the right
places and growing it responsibly and looking around, seeing the people on this call.
I know we can do it. I'm really convinced. That's why I'm still here. And yeah, I feel,
you know, there's sort of this notion of kind of this winning era for all of us who've been in the trenches for these last few years.
And, you know, particularly 2023 was brutal, I think, for many of us.
And to see the recent growth and all sort of metrics across the board is rewarding.
across the board is rewarding,
but I think it also makes this promise
that we can reach this kind of amazing North Star
that we've set going on this journey.
Yeah, kind of, you know, it makes it real.
And so, yeah, really looking forward for the years ahead
and continuing to work with all of you, it's been such a pleasure
and I think that's the biggest reward
is just the time spent
with people
we work with
kind of alongside on this journey and then Web3
that goes across
company and organizational
borders and I think
to me that's been sort of
the most rewarding part of that journey.
Marik, a few words maybe before we open it up here.
Yeah, you mentioned metrics and, you know, just how much has happened in the last year
and how big of a change that's been from the prior years. I tweeted earlier today a bunch of metrics that I thought you guys might appreciate.
I mean, the first big one is, you know, monthly active users is up, you know, 3.6x from this time
last year. We were at like trending at like 140,000 monthly active users. Now we're at 509,000 monthly active users. So that's a big jump.
With the altitude transition, we also increased our gas capacity 5x from 6 million gas per second
to 30 million gas per second. So that's just on the capacity front. But then we've also seen a big growth in the actual gas usage, up nine times in the last year.
Likewise, chain revenue is up six times in the last year, I think for a few days.
Recently, we were doing a run rate of over $2 million a year, which is amazing.
dollars a year which is amazing uh daily transaction is accounts are also up 2.7 x
and that's despite uh an increase in gas uh base fees and then this one's actually pretty
incredible i i looked at the um annual stable coin volume so the amount of stablecoin dollars that are moved on chain in the year.
This time last year, if you look at the year before that, we did $1.5 billion of stablecoins moved over the course of that year.
In this last year, we did almost $23 billion.
That's up 15 times.
It's huge. and definitely something to celebrate
and then the best uh i would say um of all of these metrics is also related to the lt transition
our annual uh cello inflation rate went from two percent to one% when we did the great solo happening. And so that's definitely something to celebrate as well.
So yeah, I mean, just all these numbers up and to the right.
And a lot of this growth also happened
in the last month since the LT transition.
And so I definitely think that we have a very, very bright future
ahead.
It'll be pretty cool revisiting these numbers next year.
And wait.
Awesome.
All right, we got a bit of a queue forming here.
Maybe we'll just get started.
I'll kindly ask speakers to keep it short so we can hear from as many folks as possible.
But yeah, this is, you know, all these great metrics, all the impact of the last five years,
it's largely, it's all due to the great applications and protocols built on top of Selo.
I see Nikhil here first, first in line and then Marcus.
So maybe Nikhil, do you want to kick us off yeah sure
what would be most helpful Rene
just you know whatever is top of mind
for you a few words
maybe just for those who
don't know you just quickly give
a bit of background what you're building
yeah any sort of uh
up to you open open format pop-coining uh so yeah so for context and background for everyone uh nick
hill co-founder and ceo of predicate uh before this i was at the cello foundation for a number
of years so excited to be here and excited to see everything that Sela has been doing. So on my end, what we build at Predicate is programmable policy
infrastructure. So we enable any form of pre-transaction rules for what can go through a
smart contract, particularly relevant for RWAs, privacy, on basically like institutional use
cases, payment systems, all those things, all around like the idea of what I think we've all anchored to and one of the
big reasons for why we first came to cello and why we've been part of it
since for so long is blockchains are destined to be the global financial
settlement system and it's really meant for real-world use cases right and it's
really meant to solve the biggest challenges in financial systems today
and so that was really one of the challenges we saw from when we started working on predicate is
how do you actually enable the pre-transaction rules necessary for really true financial
transactions to happen right not just only like meme coins or degen activity but like
real financial activity that's touching the real global economy uh
so yeah i think like one of the things for me is like why i've always been bullish on cello is and
like this migration to an l2 makes so much sense is solo was never meant to be a competitor to
you know ethereum it was really meant to advance ethereum out to the real world to the real world
and moving to an l2 enables a lot of that where from a Celo standpoint,
you can focus on what are the core things to actually accelerate growth and accelerate adoption.
I think in this case too,
where I see the world going particularly for some and it's really
advantageous for Celo is this world of,
I think there's going to be less of people thinking about just specifically
which blockchain am I actively settling on, but it's more so like where are the things that I really
need from a use case standpoint to solve for and where is the financial transactions really
being routed to?
And the better you're able to kind of create those interoperable systems, whether that's
intent based or just something different or an agentic type of model.
At the end of the day, it's capital has to flow to where it needs to go.
I think this is really from an infrastructure standpoint,
this is what Celo moving to an L2 really enables.
I think long-term then when you start looking at
how do you continue getting adoption,
it is being on the ground in all these different markets,
particularly across African markets,
which has always been so core to Celo's vision.
Yeah, that was long-winded, but for me, those are the things that I'm seeing for Cello and reflecting on the last five years.
Thanks for sharing. Thanks for being here. Yeah. Amazing.
Yeah, all the things you've been building and contributing to Cello. Thanks, Nikhil.
Right next up, we have Marcus and then I see Jackie and Eric.
Thank you, RenΓ©.
Amazing.
Happy birthday, Salo from Mento and the whole Mento Labs team.
We've been around from the birth of the protocol.
Salo dollar is just a few weeks younger than the Salo mainnet.
It was the first stablecoin on Salo and cello euro followed many more followed five years later
now cello is the place for stable coins and mento is bringing global fx markets on chain we have
currently 12 stable coins live on mento we have three more going through governance now so if you
haven't voted please vote on that and also Marek already mentioned
the growing stablecoin volume on Cello we have many exciting things in the pipeline to bring
great fx infrastructure for everyone so that now the whole ethereum community can can use fx
infrastructure with mento stay tuned we are certainly excited and can't wait for the next five years to come
and celebrate the next five years, Mark.
Beautiful.
Jackie, on to you.
Hey, hey.
Happy birthday, Cello.
This is Jackie from Valora.
Just wanted to wish the whole community on the success
and the milestone of this five
years. I can't believe it's already been in this amount of time. A little background on me. I
joined the C-Labs team right before the solo mainnet. So it was a few months before. It was
actually a really crazy time because obviously there was a pandemic going on, but I was also
brand new to working in crypto. So you can imagine how well the variety it's been the past five years. But
I think, you know, reflecting back on why I joined Solo and why I really wanted to work
in the crypto space was I wanted to build products that people would actually use. And
I saw the vision and the potential for Sellout to really be, you know,
the place to do this for the world. I was lucky enough to, you know, to work on the early version
of Valora back then and, you know, worked with Merrick and the rest of the team to launch it
and to make its, you know, to make its way into its own independent company. And so, you know,
we've been working on this mission to make real-world products
and an application that people can use that really aligns with Selo's mission.
Recently, in this last year, the Velour team has also launched a product
and a platform called Divi.
And really the problem that we see here is that the whole crypto industry
is aligned by this hype machine.
This is what Rene was mentioning about battling for crypto's soul.
Really the opportunity that we see is that if we were able to align outcomes and incentives
better between protocols and builders and users, this could actually be something that
can prepare Web3 for its
next evolution, one that's defined by not hype, but actually by outcomes.
And so what Divi does is actually it's an on-chain protocol that enables aligned incentives.
So protocols can actually reward and award builders for their impact and not just by
speculation.
And so this could be something about replacing grant programs or these other types of ecosystem growth efforts by
actually rewarding builders for the on-chain impact that they bring,
whether that's new users, deposits, you know, TBL, et cetera.
And it's been going really well.
I think the reception for Divi has been great.
You know, people really see the vision for being able to,
you know, to be rewarded by outcomes. And I think that that's something that the Valora team has
always been really passionate about is like, how do we actually make the system work? So we're
incentivized to build real world products. And so, yeah, so Valora's, you know, looking forward
to continuing support sales mission for building for impact. And so Divi is here to launch proof of impact campaigns for the community and beyond.
And I really wanted to celebrate and to congratulate the community for how far we've come and for the next five years.
So thanks again.
That's awesome, Jackie. And I saw it was an on-chain proposal recently together with Salocamp, maybe a little bit late for Rachel and the crew to join this. I don't know if they're on, but also exciting to see that collaboration.
Excellent. We have Eric next. And then after in my lineup here, I see Phil, Charles, Alex, and Matt. Let me see if I can remember that order. But Eric, you're up first.
As everyone said, happy birthday, Celo.
I'm very excited to be celebrating this.
I've been in the space since 2013.
I've seen a lot.
It didn't seem like it would ever get this far.
But one thing that brought me to Celo and one thing that I'm happy about, you know, Celo finally becoming an L2 and being able to return to Ethereum,
is that we are able to achieve the goal of reaching and helping more real-world people.
of reaching and helping more real world people.
Why that matters to me is there's so many people out there
that I think can benefit from all the hard work
that we do in the blockchain industry,
helping to make money more accessible.
And I'm really excited about all the hard work
that's gone into, you know, getting us to where we are today.
I think for me, as I mentioned before,
real world, real people has always been a challenge on the internet,
trying to determine if someone is a real person.
And now we got AI bots coming, like how do you tell?
And coming from the Celo Foundation and recently helping to launch self.xyz, we finally have
the technology that kind of came from trying to solve problems that we saw at Celo with
all these number of people coming in.
Now we can really determine if someone is real.
I think that's going to be very important and help to unlock so many use cases where you're not sure if you're dealing with an agential being or if you're dealing with somebody who has 100 wallets.
Why I think that's important is if there's more certainty around who is real and who is not, it means that the real people can actually benefit from all the attention, resources, and whatnot
that'll help us to get farther.
So without further ado, I'm really happy to be here.
Love Cello.
And I'm really happy and looking forward
to meeting everybody who's building on this
and all the new people that'll come soon.
So thanks for having me.
Beautiful.
Phil Fogle.
Hey, Phil Fogle here, longtime Cello fanboy.
First of all, just happy birthday, Cello, and a huge congratulations to Renee and Merrick.
I think it's rare at this point in crypto to see five years in the original founders still actively hustling and running and this passionate about what they originally built.
Really kudos to you guys for keeping the vision alive, especially during a really brutal bear market.
I know for those of you who don't know me, I was previously building a company called Flow Carbon that was trying to bring carbon credits on chain to sell.
The carbon markets and crypto markets really sort of collapsed at the same time, which made doing that really difficult.
And we were incredibly well supported by the Celo ecosystem in trying to achieve the vision that ultimately didn't take place.
But hopefully that is continuing to go on and will ultimately one day be a fulfilled vision.
but this is an ecosystem that actually brings people together
and is filled with some of the best and brightest people in all of crypto
and could not be happier to call Selo home
from a community and from a building standpoint.
So happy birthday, Selo.
Thanks, Paul. Meets it, Juan.
I figured you'd give a shout out to the Joel Slack store.
Oh, yes. Sorry. Yeah. So also, big time swag fanboy. I figured you'd give a shout out to Jolly Good Sello to create decentralized swag projects
that celebrate the entire Sello ecosystem, jollygoodselo.com.
Check it out.
And, you know, we'd love to have more people participate in that and just more ways to celebrate this ecosystem
and honestly to celebrate how many people are building
and participating in this ecosystem.
Amen.
Charles, you're up next.
Hi, congratulations and happy birthday, Cello.
Been a fan for many years, but only started being actively involved
when started building MiniPay at Opera.
And today MiniPay has crossed over 6 million wallets
and we're probably one of the main kind of gateway
to the overall Cello ecosystem.
And I'm very grateful to to be
building alongside alongside all of you and and congratulations RenΓ© and Marek
for you know for sticking to the mission I think it's very rare in this space to
first of all to have that vision, but also to be consistent and build
over this number of years and think long term.
It's a privilege to build alongside like-minded folks like you.
And I really admire Cello's sort of technical leaderships in this past 18 months.
I remember when we first heard of the plan for this L2 migration in Paris.
And at a time, it made a big impression.
And it was not one of those kind of, okay, let's just hop on a bandwagon hype.
It was really like, okay, let's show the world how this can be done.
And I think you've executed extremely well here and really excited to come to this five-year point and enter this new phase of Celo.
Now, Minipay growing and really benefiting from this technical leadership.
So yeah, I mean, congratulations.
Cello is one of those chains that is really punching above its weight
and really focusing on real utility.
And it's a great place to be.
So thank you for creating Cello.
And thank you for everyone here that's building on Cello. Yeah, thank you for creating Cello, and thank you for everyone here that's building on Cello.
Yeah, thank you.
Thank you, Charles.
And yeah, also thanks for the amazing partnership.
It's been really amazing to see what you guys are building.
Awesome.
Alex, you're up next, and then we have Matt.
Hi, everybody, and happy birthday to cello um i joined cello
ecosystem free baklava testnet for the mission of borderless financial access and at this time and
still largely today it's you know one of the few um sort of base layers focused on enabling a great end user experience
and very mission oriented um you'd think that focusing on end user experience would be a
a natural next step but most of our industry is not focused on that um and you know now that the
tech is ready in my opinion you know less than one cent costs and following the L2 migration and the great work that Merrick and C-Labs team did, one second block time.
So, you know, I've shifted my focus up the stack to the application layer through the mini pay fund and other initiatives.
But that goal of borderless financial access has never changed.
goal of borderless financial access has never changed. And, you know, thank you to Renee and
Merrick for kind of continuing to hold that vision and never wavering. I think it's rare in this
industry to see people hold to that original mission and never stray from it. So thank you guys. Thank you, Alex.
Thanks for everything you're doing for Cello.
Matt, you're up next.
And then David.
Hey, everyone.
Thanks for having me.
And happy birthday, Cello. Five years, such for having me. And happy birthday Celo.
Five years, such an incredible milestone.
It's about the same amount of time that I've been in the blockchain space and it's always
really been inspiring to see that there are people in this space that are trying to build
something that helps everyone with the common PVP nature of the industry. Para is extremely close to the Celo ecosystem
founded by Nitya, who spent almost four years
working on Celo and her time there really inspired
what we're doing at Para in making it easy
for anyone to onboard to crypto applications.
When I think over the last several years,
one of the things that's really exciting to me
is how accessible we've made crypto.
And I think there's still a lot of work left to do
in this space, but five years ago,
the only way to interact with on-chain apps
and the financial freedom that can come with it
was with the browser extension on a desktop.
And much of the developing world doesn't have access to these types of devices.
So I think it's really exciting.
Over the last couple of years, especially, we've seen work from teams like Valora, as
well as teams like Para, enabling apps to launch on app stores that make it easy for
users to get access to stable coins and financial
freedom. And really appreciate all the work that the Selo ecosystem is doing to advance
that and really excited to be a part of it and working closely with several teams in
the Selo ecosystem.
Thank you, Matt. Yeah, it's been fun to see what you and Nitya have been building.
Congrats.
David, over to you.
And then if anyone else wants to squeeze in here,
I think we can probably go over by a few minutes.
So come on to the stage now before we wrap.
But David, the floor is yours.
Well, happy birthday, Celo.
Happy Earth Day, everyone.
So sweet, by the way, to launch Celo during Earth Day. This is very memorable. David from Game Forest. So Celo helped us win an X-Prize, which was really, really cool. in Solana back in the days at GameForce because Solana vibes.
But then we found Valora and we really liked the wallet.
So kudos sending to the Valora team.
And we came for the tech in Celo and we stayed for the values.
I think whatever all the speakers just said before,
like Celo has an incredible, incredible aligned value set
that is really rare to find in all of crypto.
And I think when you talk about CryptoSoul,
I think Celo is really the right place to discuss this.
In many ways, super inspiring.
I think also secretly quite Ethereum aligned.
When you think about how Ethereum thinks about itself,
I think Celo is kind of just,
as you mentioned, the teenager version.
So maybe the older brother of Ethereum in terms of value sets.
And I hope this is what Ethereum strives towards, too.
We recently launched DeepGov, and it's really, really funny.
So when we were using the technology for the XPRIZE, and what Gainforce is doing is we're paying local communities stablecoins,
very tiny amounts for collecting biodiversity data around the world.
Famously, we onboarded communities in the Amazon rainforest in Congo.
And they got really interested in developing not just collecting data,
but also developing their own agents and their own AIs, right?
So then we experimented with community models.
That's what we call like large language models that are primed on values and principles of that community. And we realized
these are really nice governance models because the communities love it, interact with it.
And we thought, could that be a cool thing to try out in Web3 itself? And so we're running right now,
inspired by our work at Gainforest with literally coming from the rainforest, some ideas.
We're running a Gitcoin round right now on 25K using community models.
We call them configurable AI politicians that you can vote for,
which one you align the most.
And then these kind of politicians are going to distribute the funds
to open source projects in Gitcoin at GG23,
but also to some of the EcoServe's project that we launched on Cello that has applied as well.
And believe it or not, we are launching soon a phase one for DeepGov also on Cello.
We believe it has actually a lot of potential to be implemented on Cello governance itself.
And one of the first phases is actually to figure out,
yeah, we talk a lot about the values of Celo,
but we should write them explicitly down.
And so one of the things that we're thinking in our team
is to launch what Autry Tank calls
a broad listening exercise with the Celo community,
really figuring out principles and statements
of Celo's culture and ecosystem,
and then maybe build some really cool ai agents on top
of that so that's something next level um we are super excited at gainforce but definitely just a
shout out on renee and mark super inspiring what you guys have been doing over the last five years
and i think gainforest and many other projects wouldn't be here um without your leadership so
thank you so much thank Thank you, David.
And thanks for sharing.
Yeah, super exciting to see that come to life.
Yeah, I think we're a little bit pressed on time here.
So maybe we'll end the community round here.
I see a bunch of other folks on the call.
Shout out to Pretium for doing such amazing work around helping people use their crypto in the real world.
Shout out to all the regional DAOs who've been holding up the Saloflack continuously and helping grow our great community.
And yeah, all the community members around the world who have stayed with us
through the ups and downs and I'm personally really excited for what's next the next five years
for anyone interested in my my ramblings there is a blog post where I share some predictions
to what I think that can look like I'd love to hear from everyone what their view is,
maybe what's missing, what are things you'd
love to see happening in the Celo ecosystem.
So join the forum conversation on that.
And yeah, maybe with that, I'll hand it over
to also Marek for some closing remarks.
Thanks, RenΓ©.
Wow, that was really heartwarming hearing from all of you guys.
No, it's a real pleasure building together,
and we're just excited for what's ahead.
Yeah, I mean, highly recommend reading that post by Renee, I think a lot of really good kind of thoughts around kind of the foundation's
role going forward and kind of the big changes ahead that we're proceeding with with cello you know i think with the with the metrics
that i just shared earlier you know i think we were um continuing to see um just a lot of a lot
of growth a lot of adoption um you know in large part again thanks to all of the hard work for
for many folks who who just uh presented um and uh and that's that's going to be incredible to see going forward.
I think we've kind of dubbed this the winning era going forward.
And so we're excited to be entering it and for all of that growth to continue.
On the technical front, you know, as you guys know, I'm focused heavily on
focus heavily on my role at C-Labs, helping the core dev team continue to contribute to
the solo client and continue to make it one of the best places to build on.
And we have a lot of really exciting things planned. We're working really hard to
upstream some of our changes to the OP stack to make Sela even more compatible with the rest of
OP stack and the super chain. But at the same time, Sela's always been really, really, I think, good at leading when it comes to cutting edge features.
And so we're also, you know, heads down looking at ways that we can innovate and make Celo,
you know, the best L2 for all of you guys to be building on. You know, OP frequently talks about kind of standard chains
and frontier chains and we're happy to kind of take the torch here and, you know, work on really
pushing the frontier forward for OP. And so, yeah, expect a lot of exciting kind of technical
kind of technical announcements in the coming months.
You know, we've, you know, there's no break.
We've, you know, since the L2 transition,
we've already done a whole bunch of planning
and the team has already had down, you know, building,
you know, what's next.
And so we're super, super excited for that.
So, yeah, I think it's going to be, you know, an even next. And so we're super, super excited for that. So yeah, I think it's going to
be, you know, an even more amazing year going forward. And I can't wait to celebrate with you
all again this time next year. That's super exciting, Eric. Awesome. Well, this was fun. Thanks again, everyone for joining. Wonderful to share this
moment with you all and look forward to hanging in real life at the next ETH Global or Ethereum
meetup or event that we're all going to. And yeah, enjoy today.
Happy Earth Day and see you all soon.
See you all soon. .
