Bridge added Celo support to its stablecoin platform, giving developers direct access to one of crypto’s most active networks for low-cost payments.
The integration connects Bridge’s API to Celo’s Ethereum Layer 2 network, allowing businesses to use onramps, offramps and cross-chain bridging for USDC on Celo.
The move expands Bridge’s stablecoin infrastructure into a chain that has built much of its activity around low-cost payments, remittances and mobile-first financial services.
Bridge taps Celo’s stablecoin payment network
Celo launched on Earth Day in 2020 with stablecoin payments as a central part of its design. The network supports sub-cent transaction fees, one-second block times and gas payments in stablecoins, features that have helped make it a venue for low-cost transfers, remittances and other payment use cases.
Celo has processed about 1.3 billion lifetime transactions and more than $65 billion in stablecoin volume since its migration to an Ethereum Layer 2 in March 2025, according to the announcement. The network also counts more than 600,000 daily active users and 25 native stablecoins, including USDC and USDF, with USAT expected to join.
For Bridge developers, the integration means a single API can now connect businesses to stablecoin movement across Celo, giving companies a faster path to building payment, treasury and cross-border finance products on the network.
MiniPay shows Celo’s real-world reach
The announcement pointed to MiniPay, Opera’s self-custodial wallet, as a key example of Celo’s adoption outside crypto-native trading. MiniPay has reached more than 15 million users across 66 countries and facilitated over 400 million stablecoin transactions on Celo.
The wallet supports peer-to-peer payments, remittances, utility payments and daily commerce through nearly 50 Mini Apps, showing how stablecoin payments are being used in markets where traditional financial rails can be slow, costly or limited.
“Celo was built for the people who actually need stablecoins to work — for remittances, for savings, for daily commerce in markets where legacy rails fall short,” said Marek Olszewski, Celo co-founder and Celo Core Co. chief executive.
Bridge Integration follows Celo’s USAT expansion
The Bridge integration follows another recent expansion of Celo’s stablecoin ecosystem.
In March, USAT, a digital dollar issued by Anchorage Digital Bank and backed by Tether, expanded to Celo in its first deployment beyond Ethereum, adding another regulated dollar asset to a network already used for low-cost payments.
The rollout, supported by Google Cloud and Self, included a privacy-preserving mainnet faucet to distribute USAT to eligible users, giving Celo another stablecoin option alongside assets such as USDC and USDF while strengthening its position as a network for real-world digital dollar payments, remittances and mobile financial services.
