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, Marek joined Vitalik Buterin and JBSchweitzer at ETHPrague 2025 to present the view that stablecoins represent crypto’s WhatsApp moment, spotlighting a mainstream adoption pathway (source: @Celo on X, Dec 25, 2025). According to @Celo, the shared video centers stablecoins as the most accessible entry point for users, a narrative cue relevant for traders tracking ETH and stablecoin infrastructure (source: @Celo on X, Dec 25, 2025). According to @Celo, this talk emphasizes an adoption-led thesis that can inform monitoring of stablecoin activity and ecosystem developments around Ethereum in 2025 (source: @Celo on X, Dec 25, 2025).

According to Celo, more than 56% of all transaction fees on the Celo network in 2025 were paid in stablecoins such as USDT, USDC, and USDm, enabled by Celo's fee abstraction feature (source: Celo on X, Dec 25, 2025). According to Celo, the update also clarifies that USDm is the new name for the former cUSD, indicating stablecoin-denominated gas was the majority settlement method on Celo in 2025, a key datapoint for on-chain fee and activity analysis (source: Celo on X, Dec 25, 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 on X (Dec 18, 2025), @jchaskin left traditional finance, was hired by the Ethereum Foundation, and focuses on bridging applications to Ethereum and the broader ecosystem (source: @Celo on X, Dec 18, 2025). The post provides no product launches, funding rounds, roadmap updates, or market metrics, and cites no immediate catalyst for ETH price action (source: @Celo on X, Dec 18, 2025). For trading relevance, this is a personnel update only with no tradeable data beyond the hiring claim in the source (source: @Celo on X, Dec 18, 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 on X (Dec 17, 2025), SelfProtocol launched a zk-powered proof-of-humanity and identity layer at ETHDenver that leverages government-issued biometric passports and IDs, source: @Celo on X. According to @Celo, the announcement names partnerships with Google Cloud, Aave AAVE, and Velodrome VELO, source: @Celo on X. According to @Celo, the product now supports India's Aadhaar ID, source: @Celo on X. Tokens directly referenced in the announcement include AAVE and VELO, source: @Celo on X.

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 integrated Aave v3, VelodromeFi, and Uniswap v4, strengthening its DeFi building blocks (source: Celo on X, Dec 17, 2025). These integrations join existing support from Chainlink, Curve Finance, and Bancor, consolidating protocol availability on Celo (source: Celo on X, Dec 17, 2025). Celo stated that self-verified pools have pushed stablecoin liquidity even deeper on the network (source: Celo on X, Dec 17, 2025). For traders, the update centers on broader protocol integrations and deeper stablecoin liquidity on Celo, as characterized by Celo (source: Celo on X, 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).