Celebrating 1 year of Blockscratch on Celo
As we wrap up 1 year, we’re excited to reflect on a significant milestone—one year of Blockscratch on Celo! Over the last year, Blockscratch has grown to become a product users love and come back to use every day, and we’re eager to share updates with the Celo community.
Our mission from day one has been to transform how people interact with crypto by serving as the friendly, relatable UI between crypto and users. Over the last year, we’ve seen tremendous growth, a deep new community formed, a lot of brilliant features that have all led to Blockscratchers doing over 100M transactions over the last year. We’re grateful for the support of the Celo community and our partners in MiniPay and hope to continue to keep growing the ecosystem.
Who am I?
My name is Jason. Some of you may know me as the person that led programs and worked on getting MiniPay up for success on Celo.
I spent 4 great years building Celo after which I’ve decided to build Blockscratch on Celo.
That’s me at Celo Connect Barcelona.
What is Blockscratch?
It’s a consumer application focused on enabling people to obtain their first crypto by performing useful transactions on chain.
Blockscratch is the fastest growing consumer application inside MiniPay that has now touched over 700,000 users since it was born a year ago. We recommend trying it out inside MiniPay, people love the joy they get from using it.
Highlights
100M Transactions on Celo
Blockscratch users have now performed over 100M transactions on Celo - making it the stickiest consumer dapp out there.
Giving people a reason to become a DAU (Daily Active User) on Celo
Blockscratch has built viral loops in the Celo ecosystem. Our retention is off the charts. Blockscratch users are 5x more likely to perform other actions. Eg: A user that scratched a card goes on to swap and add more cash, making them more and more valuable.
This is unlike anything that any app has ever seen.
Activity = Celo on the radar
Not just for other communities, but for investors and builders. Take a look at the following tweets that correlate to the daily active user activity from Blockscratch and MiniPay. All chains desire this.
Not just that - users LOVE using Blockscratch on Celo
Andrew is one among over 700,000 people that come and enjoy each Blockscratch on Celo all the more enjoyable. We’ve designed a truly sticky experience that works. Try it!
We’re Bringing Talent to Celo
Blockscratch is driving talented developers to Celo. Not only is our team now a major contributor creating key building blocks on Celo, we’ve onboarded and supported 100s of other teams building on Celo. We have more new stuff coming out here - stay tuned.
We want to continue to do so.
We’ve innovated to make Celo better and drive the mission
We now have the industry’s best transaction throughput with 100s of transactions making it into each block.
In addition we are using and building the best in class infrastructure that hasn’t previously been known to crypto that’s resulted in over 200,000 transactions a day.
Blockscratch makes the Celo ecosystem stickier
Blockscratch users go on to transact with their friends, add cash to their wallets and do so without rewards - our numbers prove it’s possible to make ecosystems stickier.
Blockscratch community is one of the largest communities on Celo and we think they will be the usage class on Celo.
People love Mento assets like cUSD and soon, we will be driving USDT and USDC activity as well on Blockscratch to make Celo the chain with the most love.
Conclusion
We’re grateful to MiniPay and the Celo community. We need your continual love, support and feedback in order to win. With Celo doubling down on Stablecoins through initiatives like Prezenti, Artemis Stablecoin dashboard and Stabila, Blockscratch is the critical piece to enabling the next phase of growth for Celo.
The Blockscratch community is growing and shipping to bring Celo millions of more users and transactions as we’ve demonstrated.
Stay tuned here: x.com
