Celo Becomes First Chain to Support USA₮ for AI Payments

On Wednesday, the Celo Foundation announced via X that Celo's native x402 facilitator has expanded to USA₮, enabling agentic payments using the US Dollar-backed stablecoin issued by Anchorage and supported by Tether.

Celo is the second chain to support native mint and burn for USA₮, the first ever to support USA₮ as gas & now the first to support USA₮ x402 payments

Celo is a carbon-negative, permissionless blockchain with a rich ecosystem of global partners building innovative Web3 dapps to support a more inclusive financial system. 

Accessible to anyone with a mobile phone, the Celo ecosystem consists of a decentralized, proof-of-stake blockchain technology stack (the Celo platform), the CELO governance asset, and several Mento stable assets (cUSD, cEUR, cREAL) that enable real-world users to use digital assets. 

The open-source Celo mainnet launched on Earth Day 2020. The Celo community passed an indicative on-chain governance proposal (temperature check) to have Celo migrate to an Ethereum layer-2. Google Cloud, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, and many others run validators on the Celo Platform. 

Today, the Platform supports 1,000+ projects in over 150 countries that are building on Celo to help create the conditions of prosperity for all.

CELO is up 3.8% in the last 24 hours and currently trades at $0.1030.