Mento Magazine Q1 2024

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Mento Magazine! Q1 was a busy time for the Mento Labs’ team. Here is an overview of the highlights from the past quarter and a look ahead at what’s to come.

January Event Highlights

• CfC St. Moritz: on January 10-12, Markus Franke, CEO at Mento Labs, attended a panel “Mass crypto adoption across Africa - could it be a driver for the next bull run?” 🇨🇭

• X Spaces on Jan 25th by Africa Tech Summit with Opera MiniPay, Celo Foundation and Mento Labs “Onboarding Millions of Users Across Africa to Web3” 🌍

February News

After sponsoring the Africa Tech Summit in Nairobi and sharing a booth with MiniPay and the Celo Foundation, Mento Labs received extensive coverage in prominent news outlets in Africa like Tech in Africa, Tech Cabal and Tech Moran. MiniPay's milestone of surpassing 1 million addresses contributed to the increased attention. 📰 🇰🇪

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Event Highlights

• Africa Tech Summit and Africa Money & DeFi Summit: on February 14-15, Markus Franke, CEO at Mento Labs, participated in a panel discussion "Onboarding Millions of Users Across Africa" with Celo Foundation, MiniPay and Kotani Pay 🇰🇪 Watch recording 📺

• “Investors & Founders Happy Hour” on February 15, sponsored by Mento Labs, Credit Collective, Celo Foundation, cLabs and Fonbnk following Africa Tech Summit in Nairobi 🍷

• Codejam event on February 17, organized by Celo Africa DAO and Celo Kenya: Over 100 developers from Kenya Technical University got hands-on experience with Mento's stable cUSD 🌍

• Mobile World Congress: on February 26: Markus Franke participated in a panel discussion on: "The Transformative Path with Blockchain" 📱🇪🇸

• ETHDenver: February 29, Bogdan Dumitru, CTO at Mento Labs, participated in a panel discussion on: "Stablecoins and Sustainability" during the CarbonSmart event by Flow Carbon 🌱

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March News

• Opera MiniPay, dollar stablecoin wallet, supported by Mento stable cUSD on Celo blockchain hit the milestone of 2M activations across Africa. 🎉🇳🇬🇰🇪🇬🇭

• The latest article by Markus Franke has been published following CfC St.Moritz: “Why is there a need for local stablecoins?” 🌍

Event Highlights

• ETHDenver: on March 1, Victoria Calmon, Head of Marketing & Communications at Mento Labs, presented best practices for "Web3 Crisis Comms - Controlling the Narrative..." 🇺🇲

• Mento Platform Audit Contest with Sherlock 🔎🕵️

• w3Africa: on March 18-19, Markus Franke participated in a panel discussion on "International Remittances" in Johannesburg 🇿🇦

• MoneyMotion: on March 21 - 22 fireside chat with Nadiem Sissouno, Head of Economics at Mento Labs, joined a fireside chat on "Stablecoins - the Future of Money?" and participated in panels on “Open Finance - alternative business models” and "What will it take for tokens to become the future of payments?" 🇭🇷

• ETHBucharest: March 27-30, Bogdan Dumitru represented Mento Labs at the event. 🇷🇴

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Recommended Readings

• Multi-Currency Settlement Token: A New Approach to Global Trade Settlement

• Mento Labs 2023 Year in Review

• Looking Ahead to the Africa Money & DeFi Summit

• Mass Crypto Adoption

• Intermediaries: Making or Breaking the (Stablecoin) Market

• Highlights from the Africa Money & DeFi Summit

• “The Transformative Path with Blockchain” Panel Insights from MWC

• Employee Spotlight: Sandra Kumhofer, General Counsel at Mento Labs

• Intermediaries: Making or Breaking the (Stablecoin) Market Part 2

• unStable Summit Insights from Devconnect Istanbul

• “Onboarding Millions of Users Across Africa to Web3” by Markus Franke

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Where to meet Mento Labs in Q2

• Paris Blockchain Week, April 9-11, Paris 🇫🇷

• Token 2049, April 18-19, Dubai 🇦🇪

• ETHDubai, April 19-21, Dubai 🇦🇪

• Berlin Blockchain Week, May 18-26, Berlin 🇩🇪

• Celo Gather, May 24, Berlin 🇩🇪

• Africa Tech Summit, June 6-7, London 🇬🇧

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