We built @Celo for payments when nobody in crypto wanted to hear about payments. In 2020, it was all DeFi degen plays and NFT drops. The consensus was basically: payments are boring, stablecoins are a niche tool, and the real opportunity is in speculation We knew the world would need to come around to crypto payments on its own. We couldn't manufacture that moment, so we just kept building. And it turned out to be the stablecoin wave