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Marek Olszewski

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

And this is what Minipay is doing with a focus on a very key set of emerging markets where really the utility of having something like this just is 10x better than what they have available.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

Nobody needs global Venmo in the US right now because they have Venmo.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

And so you need to start somewhere where people don't have something as good as Venmo.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

And so that's been a big focus, and it's just taken a while to really bootstrap those network effects.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

There are...

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

On the order of 700K daily active users.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

Is that wallets?

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

Daily active addresses, yes.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

However, because Minipay uses this phone number-based identifier system that requires you to verify your phone number, I think we have a lot of conviction that those are

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

I think the majority of those users are likely many pay users.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

And we know that those users tend not to Sybil because you need to have a Google account and that phone number to onboard.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

And so I think there's a lot of, it's a lot, certainly a lot harder to Sybil than if you just use addresses.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

If you go to Grow the Pi and you look at active addresses across the Ethereum ecosystem, you'll see that we are the number one L2.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

We overtook Base late last year.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

We are ahead of Polygon even.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

And most of the time, we're also ahead of Ethereum Internet as well.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

Since you go to Grow the Pi Fundamentals, maybe?

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

Yeah, so I'd say there's three big use cases now on Celo.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

So there's P2P payments driven primarily by Minipay.

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The Most Underrated Chain: Celo’s Surprising Traction Around the World | Marek Olszewski

There's on-chain effects driven primarily by Mentos stablecoins.