According to @Celo, the network enters 2026 with $3B+ in monthly stablecoin volume, over 1B lifetime transactions, 11M+ MiniPay wallets, and leadership in daily active users among Ethereum L2s. Source: @Celo on X (Jan 8, 2026): https://twitter.com/Celo/status/2009316397831364882. @Celo also directs readers to the Dune 2025 Multichain Report for the Celo highlight and broader on-chain metrics context. Source: Dune 2025 Multichain Report: https://dune.com/2025-multichain-report.

According to Celo, the network processed 25M+ transactions in 2025, up 40% year over year, pushing Celo past 1B lifetime transactions and reporting 700K+ users transacting daily; source: Celo on X, Dec 31, 2025. For traders, these reported metrics highlight rising on-chain activity on Celo that can inform CELO market monitoring; source: Celo on X, Dec 31, 2025.

According to @Celo, the Celo ecosystem generated over 65.9 billion dollars in stablecoin volume in 2025, a 142 percent year-over-year increase, indicating sharply higher on-chain stablecoin activity on Celo; source: @Celo on X, Dec 30, 2025. Traders can treat the reported surge as a liquidity signal and monitor CELO pairs and Celo-based DEX volumes for confirmation of sustained stablecoin flows and potential depth improvements; source: @Celo on X, Dec 30, 2025.

According to @Celo on X dated Dec 29, 2025, cLabs executed four successful hardforks in 2025, highlighting concrete delivery milestones for the CELO network (source: @Celo on X, Dec 29, 2025). According to @Celo on X dated Dec 29, 2025, these upgrades included migrating Celo to an Ethereum Layer 2 architecture, a key change for network alignment with the ETH ecosystem (source: @Celo on X, Dec 29, 2025). According to @Celo on X dated Dec 29, 2025, OP Succinct Lite was activated on mainnet through the Jello Hardfork earlier in December, marking the latest production upgrade in the series (source: @Celo on X, Dec 29, 2025).

According to @Celo, the Celo ecosystem gained 12 stablecoins in 2025, with the Nigerian Naira NGN, Swiss Franc CHF, and Japanese Yen JPY brought on-chain through partners Mento Labs and VNX Platform, source: Celo on X, Dec 28, 2025, post 2005307785110777951. The announcement confirms broader on-chain fiat coverage for Celo-based markets, providing additional fiat-denominated stablecoin options for pricing and settlement, source: Celo on X, Dec 28, 2025, post 2005307785110777951.

According to @Celo, at TOKEN2049 Marek and Rene detailed Self Protocol delivering zk-powered proof-of-humanity on Celo to unlock trust without sacrificing privacy; source: @Celo. According to @Celo, the announcement specifies boosted yield for verified humans on Aave (AAVE) and VelodromeFi (VELO), highlighting eligibility-gated DeFi opportunities relevant for traders; source: @Celo. According to @Celo, the trading takeaway is that verification via Self Protocol is tied to access to those boosted yields on Aave and VelodromeFi; source: @Celo.

According to @Celo, the CeloDevs Proof of Ship builder series has onboarded 576 projects, with 29% of teams building across multiple seasons; source: Celo on X (Dec 27, 2025). For CELO-focused market participants, these builder scale and retention metrics provide concrete ecosystem activity datapoints to track alongside market and on-chain indicators; source: Celo on X (Dec 27, 2025).

According to @Celo, Celo's local stablecoin economy grew 37.7% in 2025 as users worldwide explored fast, low-cost onchain FX, highlighting expanding stablecoin activity on the network; source: @Celo on X, Dec 26, 2025.

According to @Celo, CeloDevs supported 225 full-time and 850 total monthly active developers in 2025, representing 32% and 50% year-over-year growth, respectively (source: @Celo citing @ElectricCapital). Electric Capital’s developer dataset is referenced for these counts and treats open-source crypto developer activity as a core measure of ecosystem health (source: @ElectricCapital). For CELO traders, developer expansion is a fundamental indicator to monitor, consistent with Electric Capital’s framing of developer activity as an ecosystem health signal (source: @ElectricCapital).

According to @Celo, the network processed over 346 million stablecoin transactions in 2025, a 52% increase versus 2024 that signals materially higher on-chain payment activity on Celo (source: Celo on X, Dec 23, 2025). @Celo also stated the ecosystem will continue making stablecoin payments feel native everywhere as this growth scales in 2026 (source: Celo on X, Dec 23, 2025). For traders, the confirmed 2025 surge in stablecoin settlement offers a clear on-chain usage trend to track in 2026; monitor Celo transaction counts, stablecoin transfer volumes, and liquidity across CELO spot and perpetual markets for order flow shifts as growth continues (source: Celo on X, Dec 23, 2025).

According to @Celo, ESP airdrop registration is live for Celo community members who previously mapped their Celo wallet to an Ethereum address via SelfProtocol, with sign-ups available at claim.espresso.foundation, source: @Celo on X on Dec 22, 2025. No details on allocation sizes, deadlines, or snapshot timing were disclosed in the announcement, source: @Celo on X on Dec 22, 2025.

According to @Celo, Celo’s fast, low-cost, and fee-abstracted infrastructure powers MiniPay payments designed for the global majority, emphasizing accessibility of crypto for everyone, everywhere (source: @Celo on X, Dec 19, 2025). According to @Celo, @GigaHierz explained these capabilities in an interview with The Quantum Post, underscoring payments-focused usability enabled by Celo’s infrastructure (source: @Celo on X, Dec 19, 2025).

According to @Celo, Vitalik Buterin said at this year's L2 Hardfork Party that the Celo community exemplifies the best of what Ethereum and crypto has to offer (source: @Celo, Dec 17, 2025). The post is an expression of public praise and gratitude to the Celo community, without new token economics, roadmap, or listing details, making it a sentiment and visibility event for traders to note (source: @Celo, Dec 17, 2025). The timestamp of the post is Dec 17, 2025, which can be used by event-driven traders to label potential sentiment catalysts around CELO spot and CELO/ETH pairs for monitoring, while the post itself does not state any market impact (source: @Celo, Dec 17, 2025).

According to @Celo, the project announced a plan to evolve CELO tokenomics to support network growth and real-world use, framing the shift as concrete execution rather than rhetoric, source: @Celo on X, Dec 17, 2025, https://twitter.com/Celo/status/2001292230313796091. The statement positions the tokenomics overhaul as a platform advantage but provides no specific parameters or implementation timeline, so traders should wait for official documentation before repositioning, source: @Celo on X, Dec 17, 2025. For trading strategy, monitor forthcoming official communications for details that could address supply mechanics, emissions schedules, staking rewards, and gas economics once published, source: @Celo on X, Dec 17, 2025. Price-sensitive catalysts include release of a formal governance proposal, implementation timelines, and any transition or migration details via official Celo channels, source: @Celo on X, Dec 17, 2025. Until specifics are released, track CELO liquidity and on-chain activity around official announcements to manage event risk tied to the Celo tokenomics update 2025, source: @Celo on X, Dec 17, 2025.

According to @Celo, mainstream success requires crypto to become an invisible assumption, with users sending money across borders without thinking about settlement, paying or getting paid without thinking about fees, using mini apps without thinking about chain selection, and saving in a stable asset without thinking about volatility (Source: @Celo, Dec 17, 2025). @Celo frames these concrete UX outcomes as normalization rather than mere adoption, outlining tangible usage moments that define progress for the Celo ecosystem and the CELO narrative in trading contexts across payments, app usage, and stable-value saving (Source: @Celo, Dec 17, 2025).

According to Celo, the network completed an L2 migration and shipped milestone infrastructure, reaching all-time adoption highs (source: Celo). Celo reports it is the #1 L2 by daily active users, ahead of Base and Worldcoin (source: Celo). It also states it is crypto’s #1 transport layer for USDT by weekly active users, ahead of TronDAO (source: Celo). Growth is attributed to everyday users in emerging markets, per the project (source: Celo).

According to @Celo, the network reported 790K peak daily active users (cited as #1 L2 for DAUs), 3.3M+ peak weekly active users of USDT (cited as #1 chain), 5.2M+ new users in 2025 with 79% first-time users, and $65.9B+ YTD stablecoin volume, up 142% versus 2024 (source: @Celo on X, Dec 17, 2025). For traders, these reported activity and stablecoin flow figures provide concrete inputs for monitoring CELO spot and derivatives liquidity, DEX volumes, and USDT pair activity on Celo, with all metrics sourced from @Celo’s update (source: @Celo on X, Dec 17, 2025).

According to @Celo (X, Dec 17, 2025), the team states that Layer-2 (L2) architectures will win over Layer-1 (L1) alternatives. According to @Celo (X, Dec 17, 2025), Celo has focused this year on long-term 'proof' work rather than short-term narratives. For traders, monitor Celo’s official updates on proof-related deliverables and L2 alignment as potential catalysts for CELO (source: @Celo, X, Dec 17, 2025).

According to @Celo, distribution on the Celo network is being strengthened via #BuiltOnCelo projects such as Opera’s MiniPay stablecoin wallet, which has surpassed 11M+ wallets and processed 300M+ transactions (source: @Celo on X, Dec 17, 2025). According to @Celo, the partnership with Opera is being extended to bring MiniPay access to Opera’s 300M+ users as part of a goal to onboard one billion people to the digital economy by 2030 (source: @Celo on X, Dec 17, 2025). According to @Celo, these disclosed user and transaction figures, along with the stated 300M+ user distribution channel via Opera, provide concrete adoption metrics that CELO traders can use to evaluate on-chain activity and liquidity considerations on the Celo network (source: @Celo on X, Dec 17, 2025).

According to @Celo, monthly stablecoin transfer volume on Celo reached an all-time high of $3.9B this month, underscoring rising on-chain activity; source: Artemis. Celo holds over 90% weekly market share in Africa’s local stablecoin transactions since October 2024, highlighting dominant network penetration; source: Rafi @_muhraf_ and Dune. Stripe acquired the Valora team and the Valora wallet is now maintained by cLabs, signaling continuity for user access on Celo; source: @Celo. Daimo integrated with EtherFi, connecting MiniPay to a stablecoin neobank in Africa, expanding Celo’s retail on-ramps; source: Daimo and EtherFi via @Celo. The MentoLabs Swap Sprint concluded with 600+ participants and over 2,000 community posts, indicating active community-driven liquidity engagement; source: MentoLabs via @Celo. These data points reflect elevated network usage that traders track for CELO liquidity and fee dynamics on Celo; sources: Artemis and Dune.