Celo added cNGN, Nigeria's first regulated naira stablecoin, expanding its onchain FX market and giving developers a native local-currency asset for payments. Textile FX enables blockchain-based conversion between naira liquidity and dollar stablecoins, aiming to make cNGN part of a currency network rather than an isolated token.
Tether's US-focused USAT stablecoin has launched on Celo, marking its second mainnet deployment after Ethereum and extending the token to a network widely used for digital-dollar payments.
Celo's growth highlights the potential for blockchain adoption in emerging markets, emphasizing user acquisition strategies and tokenomics evolution. Celo ranks first in 30-day tokenholder growth among L1 and L2 chains.
Ligero announced its integration with Celo, the Ethereum layer-2 network focused on global payments and one of the leading platforms for programmable stablecoins. The integration brings Ligero's private payments infrastructure into the Celo ecosystem, injecting greater privacy and regulatory compliance into on-chain payment flows. Ligero's architecture protects the sender, the recipient and the amount of each transaction.
Ledger expanded its support for Celo, the Ethereum layer-2 network oriented toward global finance. The fee abstraction functionality was enabled through the integration of CIP-64. With this update, Ledger's more than 8 million users can use any of the 18 native Celo assets available on the platform to pay transaction fees, with no need to hold the CELO token as gas.
A new stage in regulated dollar-pegged stablecoins is emerging as tether usat extends beyond its original network and into a payments-focused blockchain ecosystem. USA₮, the dollar-pegged token supported by Tether, has gone live on the Celo blockchain in its first deployment beyond Ethereum. The expansion creates a new distribution channel for the regulated stablecoin and connects it to an Ethereum layer-2 environment designed for mobile payments and low-cost transactions across multiple markets.
USA expansion to Celo signifies the first move beyond Ethereum, leveraging regulated digital dollars on a high-volume network. Tether backed USA₮ expands to Celo in first move beyond Ethereum.
USA₮ will launch on Celo as its first blockchain expansion beyond Ethereum, placing a federally regulated stablecoin inside a network built for mobile, payment-driven use. Celo brings scale, including 4.23 million weekly active users, 14 million MiniPay registrations, and more than 420 million processed transactions.
Anchorage Digital Bank‘s regulated dollar token is moving onto new rails as the usa tether stablecoin arrives on Celo, expanding on-chain dollar access for users worldwide. On 31 March 2026, USA₮, a digital dollar issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, N.A., announced its expansion to the Celo network. This marks the first time the stablecoin is deployed on a blockchain other than Ethereum, signaling a strategic step in multichain growth.
Tether-backed regulated stablecoin USA₮ launches on Celo, bringing federally compliant digital dollars to the network's 4.23M weekly active users.