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The Celo Eclair Testnet is Live

Twitter icon  •  Published 2 days ago on July 3, 2025  •  Hassan Maishera

On Wednesday, the Celo Foundation announced via X that the Celo Eclair testnet is now live.

The Celo Eclair Testnet is Live

On Wednesday, the Celo Foundation announced via X that the Celo Eclair testnet is now live. Eclair is an efficient, secure & modular testnet. The testnet has some exciting features, including: Continued Celo-native functionality (like token duality & fee abstraction), OP Succinct Lite: ZK-powered fault proofs, and EigenDA v2: low-cost, high-throughput data availability.

Eclair is powered by EigenDA v2 (Blazar), bringing:

  • Near real-time confirmation

  • Higher throughput

  • Horizontal scalability across DA nodes

  • Better latency & routing

Celo is an open platform that supports various distributed applications, smart contract development, and payments using e-mail addresses and phone numbers as public keys. CELO is up 9.3% in the last 24 hours and currently trades at $0.2781.

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Hassan Maishera

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.

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