Stablecoin payments on Celo
A dollar that was designed for retail from day one.
Celo is stablecoin-native — cUSD was the point of the chain, not an afterthought. Tab settles directly in cUSD with the largest mobile-first user base in crypto outside the US.
Why merchants pick Tab on Celo
Mento-backed cUSD
Collateralised through Mento's on-chain reserve, not a single issuer. Different counterparty profile than USDC, useful diversification for cross-border payments.
MiniPay-ready
Opera's MiniPay wallet ships preinstalled on Opera Mini across Africa, Asia, and Latin America — hundreds of millions of users with no MetaMask required. Tab payment links open straight into MiniPay's WalletConnect surface; no extra UX work.
Mobile-first audience
Celo's user base skews retail and emerging-market. If your product is a remittance corridor or a creator tipping economy, this is the chain to ship on.
Gas in stablecoin
Celo lets gas be paid in cUSD itself. Single-currency accounting, simpler relayer reimbursement.
Drop into the Celo integration in a day.
Same EIP-712 signature, same router contract, same REST API you already use on every other chain. The only thing that changes is the chain id and the stablecoin address.
- Chain id
- 42220
- Stablecoin
- cUSD
- Token contract
- 0x765DE816845861e75A25fCA122bb6898B8B1282a
- Public RPC
- https://forno.celo.org
- Explorer
- celoscan.io
Technical notes
Block time and finality
Five-second blocks with single-slot finality. Tab treats payments as settled at the first confirmation; reorgs are not a concern in Celo's consensus.
EVM-compatible
Celo is mostly drop-in EVM with one quirk worth knowing: gas can be paid in registered ERC-20 tokens. Our router contracts behave identically; only the relayer's bookkeeping changes.
Other stablecoins
Celo also hosts cEUR and cREAL via Mento, plus native USDC and USDT bridges. Tab settles cUSD for now; the other Mento currencies are a config flip away when needed.
Ship your first Celo payment today.
Claim a handle, hand out a link, take cUSD. Then read the contracts and decide for yourself whether to trust us.