Celo Expands Mobile Payments For Emerging Markets

Marek Olszewski, CEO and co-founder of cLabs, outlines Celo’s push to simplify crypto payments for emerging markets by using phone-number identifiers, native stablecoin gas payments, and Opera Mini’s Minipay integration. He cites about 700,000 daily active users, Minipay being roughly 40% cheaper than MoneyGram, and weekly peaks surpassing Tron’s 3.3 million, positioning Celo for low-cost P2P and on-chain FX.