Six billion smartphones. One mobile-first future.

Infura supports Celo, an interoperable, fully EVM-compatible DeFi protocol building a new universe of inclusive social finance.

Make finance fluid, friendly  and beautiful

Build on an open cryptographic protocol that allows users to transfer or request stable assets easily with anyone – powered by decentralized phone number verification.

Mobile-first

There are 6 billion smartphones on Earth. With Celo, build for all of them with an ultralight mobile client that maps phone numbers to public keys.

Permissionless & carbon negative

Celo uses a Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus mechanism (PoS) to secure its decentralized, carbon-negative blockchain transactions.

Cross-chain and interoperable

Experience freedom, control and interoperability by enabling cross-chain transactions for seamless, user-friendly mobile DeFi.

Two can make a dream come true

Tap into the combined benefits of the most popular node provider and the pioneering mobile-first blockchain.

Multichain access with just one bill

400K+ devs and funding to help you build

End-to-end industry-leading tooling

Free, including archive data access, with your Infura plan

How Does Celo Measure Up?

	Use Case	Consensus Algorithm (Layer 1)	Ethereum Virtual Machine Compatibility	Transaction Cost	Transaction Confirmation Time	Decentralization	Genesis Block Date
Ethereum Layer 1	Smart Contract Platform	Proof-of-Stake	Yes	Few dollars	Few tens of seconds	High	July 30, 2015
Filecoin Layer 1	Storage	Proof of Replication (PoRep) and Proof of Spacetime (PoST)	Yes	Few Cents	Few Minutes	Medium	August 24, 2017
Palm Layer 2	NFTs	Proof-of-Stake	Yes	Few Cents	Few seconds	Medium	March 30th, 2021
Polygon Layer 2	Smart Contract Platform	Proof-of-Stake	Yes	Few Cents	1-2 seconds	High	July 30th, 2015
Optimism Layer 2	Layer 2 scaling	Optimistic Rollup (ORU) - Fraud Proofs	Yes	Few Cents	1-2 seconds	Medium	Not applicable as Optimism relies on the Ethereum blockchain's genesis block, which was created on July 30th, 2015
Arbitrum Layer 2	Layer 2 scaling	Optimistic Rollup (ORU) - Fraud Proofs	Yes	Few Cents	1-2 seconds	Medium	Not applicable as Arbitrum relies on the Ethereum blockchain's genesis block, which was created on July 30th, 2015
Near Layer 1	Smart Contract Platform	Proof-of-Stake	No	Few cents	1-5 seconds	Medium	April 22, 2020
Aurora Layer 2	Smart Contract Platform	Proof-of-Stake	Yes	Few cents	2-3 seconds	Medium	July 21, 2020
Starknet Layer 2	Layer 2 scaling	Validium	No	Few Cents	Few seconds	Low	Not applicable as Starknet relies on the Ethereum blockchain's genesis block, which was created on July 30th, 2015
Avalanche  C-Chain Layer 1	Smart Contract Platform	Proof-of-Stake	Yes	Few cents	Sub-1-second	High	September 20th, 2020
Celo Layer 1	Smart Contract Platform	Proof-of-Stake	Yes	Few Cents	3-5 seconds	Medium	April 22, 2020

Be supported from day one

From developer resources to a central point of access, Celo has you covered.

Developers

6bn+ smartphones to build for, with your fave tools and cross-chain interoperability.

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Community

Join a tight-knit community focused on creating financial inclusion for those who need it most.

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Celo Terminal

A one-stop shop app to access all things Celo from desktop or mobile.

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Changing the world, one project at a time

Be inspired by these impactful projects. Use Infura to build for change with Celo.

impactMarket

impactMarket is an open, free crowd finance infrastructure that allows communities to create and distribute Unconditional Basic Income (UBI). Supporting 46K+ people with UBI in almost 30 countries, impactMarket is one of the biggest blockchain-driven UBI programs.

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Ubeswap

Ubeswap is a decentralized exchange and automated market maker (AMM) protocol for Celo assets. Its goals are to increase liquidity on Celo and enable everyone to trade any asset from their phone or browser, without having to rely on outdated, centralized systems.

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Corsali

Corsali can take any data and build a ready-to-use and customized machine-learning model. Corsali is currently working to make digital microwork easily accessible through simple mobile devices and using Celo’s technology to significantly lower transaction fees for microwork.

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Getting started with Celo + Infura