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Celo Testnet Gains Privacy Layer for Confidential DeFi

Share on X icon · Published 1 week ago on August 28, 2026 · Hassan Maishera

On Thursday, the Celo Foundation announced via X that Inco, a full-stack blockchain privacy layer, just launched on the Celo Sepolia testnet.

Celo Testnet Gains Privacy Layer for Confidential DeFi

On Thursday, the Celo Foundation announced via X that Inco, a full-stack blockchain privacy layer, just launched on the Celo Sepolia testnet.

Inco gives users a private asset layer on a Celo-supported wallet, allowing balances to stay private. Developers can add confidential functionality to Celo apps without moving users or assets to a separate network, enabling:

  • Shielded asset management

  • Confidential DeFi

  • Sealed-bid auctions

  • Confidential governance

  • Hidden game mechanics

Inco expands Celo smart contracts with encrypted balances & confidential compute without ever decrypting them onchain. Full privacy, native composability, all within Celo's existing smart contract environment.

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 down 1.8% in the last 24 hours and currently trades at $0.07550.

 

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Hassan Maishera
Hassan Maishera Senior Reporter

Hassan is a Nigeria-based financial content creator that has invested in many different blockchain projects, including Bitcoin, Ether, Stellar Lumens, Cardano, VeChain and Solana. He currently works as a financial markets and cryptocurrency writer and has contributed to a large number of the leading FX, stock and cryptocurrency blogs in the world.