Marek Olszewski
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And increasingly, there's decentralized identity through self-protocol, self.xyz.
So these are the big ones.
I think when it comes to users, P2P payments are certainly driving the most users.
When it comes to volume, I think P2P payments and on-chain effects is driving a lot of volume.
But when it comes to kind of new and exciting ZK use cases, self is really leading the way.
Yes, actually, if you go to Tether's stats page, you actually can see that when it comes to weekly active users, Celo is actually ahead of Tron now.
We peaked at 3.3 million weekly active addresses that are transacting in USDT.
So certainly, I mean, Celo is like Ethereum's answer to Tron, 100%.
You know, I think Tron certainly had an earlier start and has done well.
But, you know, I think we're coming right, you know, we're nipping at their heels and in some, for some metrics, even overtaking them.
And so...
Yeah, really, really excited about a lot of these stats now finally pushing us into the lead.
It's been a pretty long and arduous effort to competing in Strong because they do have a lot of mindshare and they are quite globally recognized.
Right now, a lot of those users are Minipay.
And Minipay has historically focused on the African continent.
Large part because they have onboarded a lot of users who are using Opera Mini, which is their high-speed, light browser targeting emerging markets.
I think they have something like 1 billion installs, 100 million monthly active users of Opera Mini, and they embedded MiniPay into that browser.
It's also available standalone, but I think to get a lot of those users onboarded, they embedded it into the browser.
And so now they're focusing primarily on other emerging markets, LATAM in Asia, but initially there was a lot of focus on Africa.
And so one really, I think, compelling story that I've heard of a ManyPay user