Buy Celo (CELO)

Kickstarter

Allows you to start a creative project. Billions have already been spent in hundreds of thousands of projects, finding jobs for large groups of people and creating tens of thousands of businesses.

Kickstarter is a company that has become independent of Celo and is committed to decentralisation. Camille Canon will lead the governance lab, she is co-founder of the Purpose Foundation who have their focus on developing and scaling up alternative ways of ownership and governance models.

The Climate Collective

This is a growing group of companies working together to take action for the climate. They evaluate organisations and connect them through the possibility of funding promising projects, strategic partnerships and educational resources. Their mission is to bring companies together and provide them with the resources they need to fight climate change, such as Celo, Green World, Loam and Regen Network.

Celo and The Climate Collective have already launched many projects to make the planet greener and more livable. One key project is rainforest buyouts, funded by stablecoins. The larger the amount of cEURO, cREAL (Real is the Brazilian currency) and cUSD in circulation become, the more collateral they could create to buy rainforest. 

At the time of writing, Celo has $850,000,000 in reserve. With 40% of this, the protocol could plant new rainforest for $340,000,000. For $25,000,000, it is possible to buy a piece of rainforest the size of Lebanon in the Amazon. 

The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has estimated that 10 gigatonnes of CO2 must be removed from our atmosphere to keep temperatures from rising more than two degrees. If cEURO, cREAL and cUSD together became as big as USDC, this would allow them to achieve 16% of this target with their reserves.

Ubeswap

This is a mobile-first decentralised exchange, an Automated Market Maker (AMM, automatic pricing) protocol for Celo assets, democratising access to DeFi for all. It is a simple swap app that lets you swap (exchange) coins quickly.

MOOLA

Mobile-first lending protocol platform for lending and borrowing coins like cUSD (Celo dollars) or cEUR. It mainly deals with microloans in poorer countries.

Wallets

The Celo dApp sends money to your contacts by name, not wallet addresses, which average 42 characters. So it is simpler to use. Usable wallets that work with Celo include: MetaMask, Valora, Celo Wallet and Abra. 

• Proof of stake. Permissive consensus algorithm empowered by decentralised, carbon-negative impact infrastructure. 

• Full EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) comptability. Support for popular Ethereum tools and tokens make it easy to connect dApps.

• Low and multi-currency gas fees. Because you can also pay with stablecoins, usage fees become very low.

• Phone number gets a name. Instead of public keys, you can name a coin address when making payments. Sending a tenner to John is easier than sending it to an address containing 42 numbers and digits.

• Access to money with a stable value. A growing number of stablecoins like cUSD or USDC are available for mobile payments.

• Cross-chain (between multiple networks) exchangeable. More and more networks are joining Celo, allowing you to exchange more and more different coins.

• Almost 200 million transactions, average time per block 5 seconds, average gas fee 0.001$, days they are CO2 negative (absorb more CO2 than they emit) around 1000.

This is an application layer protocol designed to combat poverty quickly. It aims to promote the bottom-up economy and provide an unconditional basic income to vulnerable groups, especially available in Africa, South America and Asia.

This is to give people access to finance and wealth sharing, people over capital and a guarantee that public and central authorities will not control these funds.

The $PACT governance token gives its holder control over the impactMarket DAO (decentralised autonomous organisation), allowing them to drive the future and direction of the protocol themselves.

The impactMarket token (PACT) can now be found on CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap.

With impact Farming, you can mine coins and donate them to the impactMarket community.

ReSource is a mutual credit protocol (mutual credit system) that provides credit to participants at sometimes as low as 0% interest, eliminating the dependence on lenders such as banks or investors. 

Everyone has credit, only it is difficult to monetise it because it is hard to sell. For instance, one person is good at cleaning and the other is a genius at administration. Now if they both put in an hour's work, one has a clean house and the other a clean slate. You create your own "money" this way, outside the fiat system. 

What is striking in this system is that the total value of all the "money" in the system is always relatively stable. If Jan does an hour's work he is at 1, say, if Marieke does something back from an hour the debts are paid. As the network gets bigger you will no longer get exchanges between two people, but between all the participants. The more participants, the better the system works, because everyone has a different job they are waiting for and something else they can do. Before you know it, you have a veritable shadow microeconomy that works very well.