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Stablecoin-issuer Circle says it’s bringing USDC to the Celo (CELO) blockchain, according to a new press release from The Celo Foundation. The Celo protocol is an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatible blockchain that bills itself as “mobile first,” and is in the process of migrating into becoming a layer-2 solution. Its native token, CELO, can […]
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According to cLabs, the Celo transition would include leveraging OP Stack as the architecture to become an Ethereum L2 blockchain.
CLabs, the organization responsible for developing the Celo blockchain, is seeking to return to the Ethereum ecosystem by transitioning from an independent EVM-compatible layer-1 blockchain to an Ethereum layer-2 solution.
According to a proposal discussion on Celo's governance forum, the transition would include leveraging OP Stack as the architecture to become an Ethereum L2 blockchain, eliminating the need to monitor tooling and libraries composability through upgrades, thus "making it easy for Celo developers to utilize the full gambit of Ethereum tooling/libraries."
Other key differentiating factors would include an off-chain data availability layer operated by Ethereum node operators and protected by restaked Ether (ETH), along with transforming current validators into decentralized sequencers for L2.
Layer-1 and Layer-2 blockchains differ primarily in purpose, but also in their design and architecture. While L1 networks are designed to be self-sufficient, L2 solutions are aimed at enhancing the performance of L1 blockchains rather than operating independently.
Benefits from the transition would allegedly include increased security while maintaining low gas fees. "We expect no material change of gas fees. As the proposal is for an L2 solution with off-chain data availability, gas costs can be a lot lower than on other L2s," reads the proposal, scheduled to be discussed on a governance call on July 21 before being released for a "temperature check" on the following day.
By adopting the proposal, end-users would not be affected by the migration, and CELO token holders would retain control over core contracts by voting on governance proposals. Additionally, CELO tokens will also be used to pay for gas.
Although the transition seems purely technical, it may affect the Celo ecosystem in different ways. As per the forum discussion, it could potentially enable more liquidity to flow between Celo and other chains, but also generate extra costs for sequencers, such as fees on the data availability layer and gas on Ethereum. In addition, it is also unclear whether sequencers' rewards would match with current validators' rewards.
With blockchains becoming increasingly competitive, Celo has been working on improving its mobile experience by incorporating increased functionality and particular features. The Celo ecosystem is also targeting developing economies, where more technological solutions for payments are in demand.
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Celo president Rene Reinsberg believes Web3 adoption will require more block space and that Celo will be what the majority will choose on smaller screens.
On Episode 10 of Cointelegraph’s Hashing It Out podcast, Celo president Rene Reinsberg joins Elisha Owusu Akyaw (GhCryptoGuy) to discuss the regenerative finance (ReFi) movement, which focuses on the building blocks of decentralized finance (DeFi) and the principles of regenerative economics. Reinsberg also explains how Celo intends to stay relevant in the multichain world of layer-1 blockchains and layer-2 networks.
The blockchain world is getting crowded, with multiple layer-1 blockchains launching and layer-2 networks becoming more popular. Reinsberg said the layer-1 Celo blockchain is not worried about the increase in options for users — instead, it sees it as an opportunity to bring more people into crypto. Regardless, to set Celo apart from other networks, the team has added elements that improve its mobile experience. According to Reinsberg, Celo caters to those users who access DeFi on devices or interfaces with limited screen size by incorporating increased functionality and particular features. Reinsberg said he sees this as an important step for adoption, considering the numbers at play.
“The way that most people in the world access the internet is not on a desktop computer but it on a mobile phone.”
Further regarding adoption, Reinsberg pointed out that Celo has decided to focus on developing economies where its impact can be seen and felt. According to the Celo president, creating a “10x better payment experience in a place like San Francisco or London” is difficult, but the changes made in developing countries can be felt. Due to this, the blockchain network has set up shop on the African continent, where Reinsberg claims there are over 50 startups built on Celo that have raised funds to accelerate their projects.
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Masa Finance announced its deployment on the Celo blockchain with its new “Prosperity Passport” identity solution for users.
A central focus for many in the Web3 community has been improving identity solutions available to consumers. Last year the emergence of soulbound tokens (SBT) introduced a new way for users to define themselves.
Although the SBT hype quieted over the last months, they have not disappeared off the scene. On Mar. 1, the SBT protocol Masa Finance announced that it will deploy on the carbon-negative Celo blockchain to create a new identity solution.
More than 10 million wallets active in the Celo ecosystem will be able to generate a Masa “Prosperity Passport.” This new Web3 identity solution allows users to mint a variety of SBTs related to their digital life, such as an authenticated user verification SBT, a credit score SBT, a community reputation SBT and a .celo domain name SBT.
Calanthia Mei, the co-founder of Masa Finance said nonfungible tokens (NFTs) were the first pioneers for Web3 user customization, and SBTs are the next breakthrough technology.
“Web3 has a trust issue, and SBTs represent a composable and scalable way to build a trust layer between projects and users, and users amongst each other. “
The “Prosperity Passport” solution also gives access to other utilities from Celo projects which have integrated the technology, such as micro loans and universal basic income.
Mei believes that the identity solutions provided by SBTs will help usher in the next 1 billion authentic users into Web3.
“We see SBTs as a way to build bridges for global economies, industries, and users to merge with web3 and truly usher in the new economy."
According to the announcement, the protocol already has 250,000 Masa Soulbound Identities minted, along with nearly 300,000 Masa .Soul Names minted.
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At the end of 2022, MetaMask Institutional, Cobo and Gnosis DAO all teamed up to create an SBT project to bring exclusivity and identity verification to its users. Back in December, the Japanese financial firm Sumitomo Mitsui also revealed it is looking into SBTs for social reasons.
These new digital assets are thought to be a possible solution to future digital identity in the metaverse, along with digital citizenship.
While not directly mentioning digital assets, on Feb. 9, the European Union mentioned using zero-knowledge proofs for future digital IDs.
The Celo blockchain supports mobile-first DeFi payment infrastructure. Several companies building on the platform have received venture funding.
Projects building on the Celo blockchain have collectively raised $77.3 million in support of various business initiatives, underscoring the growing adoption of the payments-focused developer network.
Celo announced Thursday that projects impactMarket, Loam, Tatum, Circular Impact, Sanergy, Hyperlane, RedStone and Jia had secured the funding to further the adoption of Web3 business models.
The biggest raise came from blockchain development platform and early Celo Foundation grant recipient Tatum, which secured $41.5 million. Hyperlane, an interchain communication protocol focused on interoperability, secured $18.5 million in seed funding led by venture firm Variant.
Projects focused on regenerative finance (ReFi), including impactMarket, Loam and Sanergy, raised a combined $6 million. ReFi is an emerging paradigm within the crypto community focused on using blockchain and Web3 technology to address environmental and social issues.
On the decentralized finance (DeFi) side, RedStone secured $7 million and Jia added $4.3 million in pre-seed funding.
Celo was founded in 2017 by former GoDaddy executives Rene Reinsberg and Marek Olszewski. The Celo platform provides payment infrastructure for digital assets through the use of mobile devices, with phone numbers acting as a proxy for private keys. In 2018, the company raised $6.5 million with backing from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and Citigroup chairman Dick Parsons, among others.
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Moola, a decentralized finance (defi) lending and borrowing platform, was recently exploited for $8.4 million in what has been described as an “incredibly simple attack.” Moola responded to the attack by pausing all activity on the platform. The defi platform also told the attacker(s) it was willing to negotiate a “bounty payment in exchange for […]
The attacker has scored about a half-million dollar “bug bounty” after choosing to return a majority of the cryptocurrency they exploited from the Celo-based lending protocol.
An attacker has returned just over 93% of the more than $9 million worth of cryptocurrencies they exploited from the Celo (CELO) blockchain-based decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol Moola Market.
At around 6PM UTC on Oct. 18 the Moola Market team tweeted it was investigating an incident and had paused all activity, adding it had contacted authorities and offered a bug bounty to the exploiter if funds were returned within 24 hours.
Analysis of the exploit by Web3 security company Hacken shows the attacker manipulated the price of the protocols’ low-liquidity native MOO token by initially purchasing around $45,000 worth and depositing it as collateral to borrow CELO.
The borrowed CELO, along with further CELO provided by the attacker, was then used as collateral to borrow more MOO, driving up the token’s price. The attacker continued repeating this until the MOO token price had increased by 6,400%.
With the inflated token price, the attacker was able to borrow $6.6 million worth of CELO, $1.2 million of MOO, along with $740,000 of Cello Euros (cEUR) and $644,000 Celo Dollars (cUSD) all worth multiples more than their initial posted collateral resulting in the protocol's loss of around $9.1 million.
Five hours after the initial confirmation of the exploit, Moola Market tweeted it had received just over 93% of the funds exploited, with the attacker seemingly keeping the rest making around $500,000 as a bug bounty.
Following today's incident, 93.1% of funds have been returned to the Moola governance multi-sig. We have continued to pause all activity on Moola, and will follow up with the community about next steps, and to safely restart operations of the Moola protocol. (1/2) https://t.co/UsdN44X70X
— Moola Market (@Moola_Market) October 18, 2022
Moola Market did not immediately respond to Cointelegraph’s request for comment.
The attack draws similarities to the $117 million exploit suffered by Mango Markets on Oct. 11 in which Avraham Eisenberg and his team manipulated the price of the Solana (SOL)-based DeFi protocols’ native token to borrow cryptocurrencies with an undercollateralized backing. Eisenberg negotiated to keep $47 million as a “bounty.”
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Multi-chain cryptocurrency wallet BitKeep also suffered an exploit late on Oct. 17 with an attacker making off with $1 million worth of Binance Coin (BNB) through a service used to swap tokens, BitKeep says it will fully reimburse any affected users.
The attacks are the latest in a series of exploits to have taken place in October which has also shaped up to be the biggest month ever for hacking activity with the total hacked value reaching around $718 million up until Oct. 12 according to analytics firm Chanalysis.
