It’s been a muted few days for the crypto market, with prices for the top 10 coins remaining mostly flat or declining slightly in the past 24 hours. One cryptocurrency that’s defying the stagnant market is Celo, which is up over 20% in the past day to hit $3.59; over the past week, it’s surged by nearly 40%.
Celo is a mobile-first crypto project that’s aiming to build a decentralized peer-to-peer payment platform. Users can make crypto payments by using their phone numbers; the idea is that this could become popular in developing countries.
The cryptocurrency has lined up some powerful backers; in February, Celo raised $20 million in a funding round with the likes of Andreesen Horowitz (a16z), Greenfield One and Electric Capital pitching in. Just a couple of months later, former Citigroup chair Dick Parsons joined the board of the Celo Foundation, while a deal with Deutsche Telekom saw the German telco giant purchase Celo tokens and invest in infrastructure to support its network.
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