🥳 BIG Welcome and Introductions Thread

[coi]

Hello Celo community,

It’s been a while since I’ve been exploring the best way to get involved with this amazing community, and I’m happy to have finally found it.

My name is Cauê, and I’m from São Paulo, Brazil. I’m an agroecologist with experience in research and development of community-driven products, web3 business development, and providing technical assistance to rural communities, with a focus on data collection and rural development.

Currently, I’m the founder of Greenpill Brasil, the business lead of the Greenpill Dev Guild, and the product owner of the Green Goods project, which we’re developing on the Arbitrum network through the Greenpill Dev Guild. Additionally, I’m a researcher and consultant on the TreeKipedia project, developed in collaboration with Silvi Protocol.

I first came across the Celo network through the Gitcoin platform, and since then, I’ve become increasingly aligned with its vision—especially its focus on emerging markets, mobile accessibility (which resonates with us as we focus on PWAs), social and financial inclusion. It’s awesome to see Celo stands out as the only layer-1 network with a primary strategy centered on building a new economy backed by real-world assets. I admire the work being done with communities in Kenya and hope to contribute by bringing Brazilian initiatives I’m involved in—many of which are outside web3 but share the mission of driving prosperity. I aim to create a clear path for these initiatives to engage, organize, and drive change using Celo’s technology.

I firmly believe that if we want to achieve mass adoption, we need to develop solutions where people already are—on the platforms and devices they use daily, which are often outside the web3 tech bubble.

I’m excited to be part of this innovative community and look forward to contributing to its growth and success!

[nellyamorantony]

Hello everyone. I’m new here. Maybe I have missed something important. ??

[canvassing]

Hello, my (our) name is Canvassing, and we’re the winners of the Build with Celo 7 Hackathon. We’re from Nairobi, Kenya, and we are building a paid online survey that rewards participants in stablecoins.

We are a team of freelancers who have been trying to make a living off of the Internet for about 4 years now. We are product-people - a designer and an engineer. We love good UX, and we are interested in building Web3 products.

We love Celo because it is scalable - which is ideal for dApps, and we can’t wait to interact with different posts here.

Thanks!

[kitblake]

Hello Celo people!

I’ve been a fan of Celo since discovering it through Gitcoin grants. After researching the vision I’m sure that Celo is forging a sustainable path to a better world. I’d like to contribute to that effort.

In January of this year I got involved with Greenpill Network, joined the Dev Guild, and now I’ve become a Business Development co-lead. Together with my associates we’re working to foster an equitable society of shared prosperity as well.

I’m cofounder of Chaîne Research. a non-profit org that develops software for climate action. We’re a team of two who have built proof-of-concept projects for Web3 document storage, indexing, extraction, and streaming data. Recently we’ve been contributing to “An ontology for anthropogenic impact accounting”, a Hyperledger project under the auspices of the Linux Foundation.

As I’ve been a cofounder before, I always point out that I’m not a developer but a manager type. With that experience I can wear a lotta hats.