OnFinality Powers Celo’s Mobile-First Blockchain Ecosystem

OnFinality, a multi-chain infrastructure, adds Celo to its marketplace supporting over 80 blockchains!

OnFinality is a blockchain infrastructure platform that saves web3 builders time and makes their lives easier. We deliver easy-to-use, reliable and scalable API endpoints for the biggest blockchain networks and empower developers to automatically test, deploy, scale and monitor their own blockchain nodes in minutes.

Today we are proud to be announcing support for Celo, a carbon-negative, mobile-first, EVM-compatible blockchain ecosystem leading a thriving new digital economy for all.

OnFinality will provide easy to use, reliable and scalable API endpoints for builders to deploy and run their dApps on Celo quickly and easily!

“By enabling seamless integrations with the Celo blockchain, builders on OnFinality can now focus on innovating user-friendly apps for anyone with a mobile number to have access to financial solutions.”

— Daniel Vulinovich, Product Manager at OnFinality

What is Celo? ($CELO)

CELO is the platform-native asset that supports the growth and development of the Celo blockchain and ecosystem. CELO holders can earn rewards, stake with validators, and vote on proposals that shape the future of Celo.

Celo's mission is to build a financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity—for everyone.

Celo was designed to enable a new universe of financial solutions accessible for mobile users, creating a global financial ecosystem where an end-user can onboard into the Celo ecosystem with just a mobile number.

In addition, Celo makes sending payments as easy as sending a text, to anyone with an internet connection, anywhere in the world. Celo maps phone numbers to wallet addresses using a novel decentralised address-based identity layer. Mobile participants can earn rewards for securing and maintaining the system.

By connecting to Celo with OnFinality’s API endpoints, builders will be able to:

Access the Celo blockchain quickly in minutes without having to set up or manage infrastructure
Enjoy global performance, automated scalability and high availability of up to 99.99% uptime per year!
Gain valuable API Insights for you to spot issues on your apps and quickly implement rectifications for a bug-free user experience

We’re providing both public and private endpoints for Celo (Public endpoints will be heavily rate limited).

For teams looking to take your applications to the next level and ensure that you receive the best performance possible, we highly recommend using an API key. What are the benefits of getting an API key?

👉 Follow along this video to set up your private API endpoint and connect to your favorite networks in a few clicks!

👉 Check out all the premium and security features that come with your private API endpoints!

Celo’s Public API Endpoints

* Please note that these endpoints are rate limited and are not run to the same reliability standard as the endpoints that our API key customers benefit from.

HTTPs: https://celo.api.onfinality.io/public
Websocket: wss://celo.api.onfinality.io/public-ws

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Our mission is to support all blockchain teams in the world by providing critical infrastructure so they can focus on their core business. By leveraging OnFinality’s expertise in infrastructure, Decentralised Application (DApp) teams building on Celo can now focus on scaling for a global audience.

You may also reach us at sales@onfinality.io to discuss your requirements.

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About Celo

The Celo Foundation was founded in 2017 to support the growth and development of the decentralised, open source, mobile-first Celo platform to help build a carbon-negative financial system that creates the conditions of prosperity for all. The Foundation is guided by the Celo community tenets and contributes to education, technical research, environmental health, community engagement, and ecosystem outreach—activities that support and encourage an inclusive financial system.

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About OnFinality

OnFinality is a blockchain infrastructure platform that saves web3 builders time and makes their lives easier. OnFinality delivers scalable API endpoints for the biggest blockchain networks and empowers developers to automatically test, deploy, scale and monitor their own blockchain nodes in minutes. To date, OnFinality has served over hundreds of billions of RPC requests across 80 networks including Avalanche, BNB Chain, Cosmos, Polkadot, Ethereum, and Polygon, and is continuously expanding these mission-critical services so developers can build the decentralised future, faster!