Resources
Curated collection of Celo resources for developers, designers, dreamers, and doers.
warning
As of block height 31,056,500 (March 26, 2025, 3:00 AM UTC), Celo is no longer a standalone Layer 1 blockchain—it is now an Ethereum Layer 2! Some documentation may be outdated as updates are in progress. If you encounter issues, please file a bug report.
For the most up-to-date information, refer to our Celo L2 documentation.
Developer Guide
Tech Talks
- Building a mobile-first blockchain platform
- Simplifying blockchain development with the Celo SDK
- Proof of Stake
- Celo Stability Protocol Walkthrough
- Price Oracles
- Valora
- Engineering in the field
- Keeping Phone Numbers Private
- Celo Blockchain Internals Deepdive
- Developing & deploying your first DApp on Celo
- Building your first DApps on Celo, Part 2
- Feeless Onboarding
- Cross Chain Interoperability
- Building your first DApps on Celo
- Porting existing Ethereum DApps onto Celo
- Contract Release
- Leading Valora & Forging Celo User Adoption
- Empowering Celo Developer Experience
- CIP-8
- Hello Celo Q&A
- Building Celo Ecosystem and Community
Pirate Radio Interview Series
Cross-Chain Salon Workshops
- Regen Network Workshop
- Celo Wallet Connect Workshop
- How to build xApps Workshop
- Skynet Workshop
- GoodDollar Workshop
- Building a Subgraph on Celo Workshop
- Optics and the Journey of the Cross-Chain Message Workshop
- Moonbeam: Building the Multi-Chain Universe Workshop
- Skale Workshop
Discussion Panels
The Great Celo Stake Off
- What is The Great Celo Stake Off?
- Celo Mastering the Art of Validating Webinar
- The Great Celo Stake Off Info Session
Celo in the World
- Crypto + Banking: The Next Billion Users
- Future of Finance Spotlight - Celo
- Celo - NOAH19 Berlin
- SFBW19 - Stability of Celo's Stablecoin Protocol - Asa Oines
- Celo Alfajores Testnet Launch Livestream [High Quality]
- 17 Celo: Financial Inclusion and Mobile First Light Clients with Marek Olszewski
- BFTree — Scaling HotStuff to Millions of Validators
- Celo - Banking the unbanked: lessons from the field
- Validator Elections on Celo
How Celo Works
- Taking Crypto Beyond Volatility: Stablecoins
- Celo - Advancing Financial Inclusion with Permissionless Cryptocurrencies
- 17 Celo: Financial Inclusion and Mobile First Light Clients with Marek Olszewski
- zk-SNARKs and Celo's Light Client Protocol
- BFTree — Scaling HotStuff to Millions of Validators
- Celo - Banking the unbanked: lessons from the field
- Validator Elections on Celo
Celo’s 4 Tenents
- What if money were beautiful?
- Meet the team working on Celo
- The Circle of Celo
- Sep Kamvar - Curitiba Bus Token, Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition Earth Day Live Stream
Celo Prosper Series
- Prosper Series Discover Your Unique Purpose
- Prosper Series Blockchain for Prosperity
- Ignite Your Unique Purpose Zine Making Workshop
- Creating Prosperity Through New Digital Livelihoods
- Prosper Series Technology for a Sustainable Future
- Prosper Series Gifts of the Journey
- The Celo Prosper Series - Meet the Protectors of Prosperity
- Prosper Series How Blockchain Brings Prosperity to Migrant Workers
- Prosper Series Financial Inclusion for International Health
- Prosper Series Emerging Technology, Emerging Markets, & Activism
- Collaborative Economy for Prosperity
Central Bank Digital Currency Series
- Types of Stablecoins
- Stability Protocol
- Stability Research
- Managing Financial Crime Risk on Distributed Ledgers
- Influencing the Velocity of Central Bank Digital Currencies
Kuneco
Celo Camp 2020
- Celo Camp 2020: Celo's Values with Sep Kamvar
- Celo Camp 2020: AMA With Marek Olszewski, Co-founder of Celo
- Celo Camp 2020 Investors AMA
Coinbase Earn
Eth Denver 2020
- Evolution of Community
- Celo at #EthDenver
- You Had Me At Celo - Marek Olszewski / Toss a CELO To Your Prestwicher: - James Prestwich
- Make it Mobile or Else
- Celo Bounties at #ETHDenver
#MakeitMobile Hackathon
- Everything You Need to #MakeItMobile on Celo
- How to Build a DApp on Celo
- Accelerating the Movement to Mobile-First DeFi
- How to Port Your Etherum DApp to Celo
Tech Blog
- Fast and Light
- Cryptocurrency for a Beautiful Planet
- Winning the Celo Stake Off
- The Celo Validator Community: Security Audits and Lessons Learned
- How much could you earn on Celo?
- Celo’s Proof of Stake mechanism
- Consensus and Proof of Stake in the Celo protocol
- Build Mobile-First DeFi Apps with the Celo SDK
- BFTree — Scaling HotStuff to Millions of Validators
- Zooming in on the Celo Expansion & Contraction Mechanism
- A Look at the Celo Stability Analysis White Paper
- Diving into the Celo Price Stability Protocol
- A Look at the Celo White Paper
- Arbitrage and Winning a Cryptocurrency Trading Competition at MIT
Design Blog
- A Celebration of Heart
- Celo Camp and The Third Place
- The How of the Celo Coin (Part 2 of 3)
- The What of the Celo Coin (Part 3 of 3)
- What is my celo?
- Three reasons I’m into “crypto”
- Field Notes on Kenya & Mobile Money
- The Celo Alliance for Prosperity grows to 100 members
- Alliance for Prosperity: 75 Members Strong & First Integrations Live
- Meet the Celo Wave 1 Grantees
- We are part of the new Rebel Alliance
- 50 Mission-aligned organizations join the Celo Alliance for Prosperity
- Ang Programa sa Pagboto ng Celo Foundation
- Proposing the Brazilian Real on Celo
- The Celo Foundation Voting Program
- Why we should rename Celo Gold
- CELO Holders: Make Your Voice Heard Through On-chain Governance
General Updates
- Celo Sets Sights On Becoming Fastest EVM Chain Through Collaboration With Mysten Labs
- Meet the cLabs Team at Messari Mainnet!
- Optics is Here: The Future is Multichain
- cLabs Named as a Finalist in Global CBDC Competition
- Aave, Curve, PoolTogether, and Sushi Among Leading Ethereum DeFi Projects Joining Celo on DeFi for the People Collaboration
- The many and varied uses of stablecoins
- Celo and DuniaPay: The Next Chapter of Banking in West Africa
- Field Notes: Undercollateralized DeFi Pilot in Colombia
- Celo at EthCC 4
- Celo and D’CENT: Bringing Greater Access to DeFi dApps in Korea
- Congratulating Valora on an Exciting New Chapter
- NFTs on Celo
- DeFi with Celo and Ethereum
- A Carbon Negative Blockchain? It’s Here and it’s Celo