Celo Reveals 50-Member Alliance with Key Libra Participants

by Arnab Shome
  • The stablecoin project has advantages over Libra, but does not have access to Facebook’s 2.5 billion users.
Celo Reveals 50-Member Alliance with Key Libra Participants
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Multiple members of the Libra Association are now backing Celo, a rival project of Facebook's proposed digital currency.

Reported by Bloomberg on Thursday, 50 companies have joined the Celo Alliance for Prosperity, which includes names like Anchorage, Bison Trails Co., Coinbase Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Mercy Corps, all of which are participants in supporting Libra.

Other big names in the alliance include Carbon, GiveDirectly, Grameen Foundation, Maple, and Polychain.

The Celo Foundation is a non-profit and is developing a stablecoin and will also allow developers to build decentralized applications on its proprietary Blockchain .

The digital currency of the foundation - Celo Dollar - will be pegged to the U.S. dollar and backed by a reserve of other Cryptocurrencies . Unlike other digital currencies, this can be transferred only by knowing the mobile numbers of the users.

Founded in 2017, the project raised $36.4 million in total, per Crunchbase. Andreessen Horowitz's a16z Crypto also backed the project by buying $15 million worth Celo Gold tokens in its Series A round.

The open-source platform is still in the testing phase but is aiming to hit the market with its mainnet in April.

No access to Facebook's 2.5 billion user base

The company will also launch its token in the United States; however, the primary target of it is to capture the markets in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia.

When Celo is gearing up with its stablecoin project, Facebook's crypto initiative is facing regulatory hurdles that might push the Libra Association's aim to launch its digital currency in mid-2020.

The Libra Association has also shed the support of some of its key members like Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Vodafone, but recently added two additional members - Shopify and Tagomi.

"We have met with governments around the globe as well as central banks, we are continually engaging with governments in the many countries which we hope to serve," Chuck Kimble, head of the Alliance for Prosperity, told Bloomberg.

Multiple members of the Libra Association are now backing Celo, a rival project of Facebook's proposed digital currency.

Reported by Bloomberg on Thursday, 50 companies have joined the Celo Alliance for Prosperity, which includes names like Anchorage, Bison Trails Co., Coinbase Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Mercy Corps, all of which are participants in supporting Libra.

Other big names in the alliance include Carbon, GiveDirectly, Grameen Foundation, Maple, and Polychain.

The Celo Foundation is a non-profit and is developing a stablecoin and will also allow developers to build decentralized applications on its proprietary Blockchain .

The digital currency of the foundation - Celo Dollar - will be pegged to the U.S. dollar and backed by a reserve of other Cryptocurrencies . Unlike other digital currencies, this can be transferred only by knowing the mobile numbers of the users.

Founded in 2017, the project raised $36.4 million in total, per Crunchbase. Andreessen Horowitz's a16z Crypto also backed the project by buying $15 million worth Celo Gold tokens in its Series A round.

The open-source platform is still in the testing phase but is aiming to hit the market with its mainnet in April.

No access to Facebook's 2.5 billion user base

The company will also launch its token in the United States; however, the primary target of it is to capture the markets in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia.

When Celo is gearing up with its stablecoin project, Facebook's crypto initiative is facing regulatory hurdles that might push the Libra Association's aim to launch its digital currency in mid-2020.

The Libra Association has also shed the support of some of its key members like Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Vodafone, but recently added two additional members - Shopify and Tagomi.

"We have met with governments around the globe as well as central banks, we are continually engaging with governments in the many countries which we hope to serve," Chuck Kimble, head of the Alliance for Prosperity, told Bloomberg.

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