Mento Magazine Q4 2023

This newsletter will inform the community about updates in the Mento ecosystem, link to recent developments and events, and share a preview for the coming months.

October Event Highlights

The Mento Labs team participated in external and internal events in October.

• ETHMilan on October 6, Markus Franke presented “Create a more user-centric DeFi with permissionless low-vol / stable assets” 📽️ Watch recording 🇮🇹

• The Mento Labs team participated in an offsite in Berlin October 16-18 🇩🇪

November News & Events

To fulfill the demand to launch multiple decentralized stablecoins with different designs, it is important to automate the process. The Stablecoin Factory from Mento Labs will be the product that does exactly that. A no-code toolkit for launching new assets in a permissionless and decentralized manner, the Stablecoin Factory will allow future operators to deploy a new stablecoin by simply calling a function of a smart contract and providing the required parameters, like reference price feed, collateral asset, and name/ticker for the token.

• Mento Labs celebrated its 1st anniversary on November 1st! 🎂
• Mento Labs and Celo Kenya AMA, November 9th 🇰🇪
• Mento Labs was part of Devconnect Istanbul November 13-19 🇹🇷:
• unStable Summit: 📽️ “Overcoming Challenges in Stablecoin Governance” panel featuring Bogdan Dumitru
• idOS Connect: 📽️ “Enabling Real-World DeFi through Identity” panel featuring Bogdan Dumitru and “Stablecoin Factory” presentation by Oleksiy Novykov
• W3DC Dreamworld: “Stablecoins in the Real-World: Insights from the Frontlines of 'Being Stable'" presentation by Bogdan Dumitru
• ETHGlobal Hackathon 🛠️
• Celo DeFi & Trading Hackathon November 24-26 in Cape Town 🇿🇦, organized by Celo Foundation, Mento Labs, CarbonHood and Envio

December News & Events

• Following the successful rollout in Nigeria and Kenya, Opera introduced MiniPay (a self-custodial cUSD stablecoin wallet integrated into the Opera Mini browser) to users in Ghana 🇬🇭

• Meetup: “Enabling real-world use cases for crypto” with Mento Labs and RedStone in Berlin 🇩🇪 🍕

• The Mento Labs team visited the Medieval Christmas market in Berlin 🇩🇪

• HashKey Capital portfolio Demo Day featuring a Mento Labs’ presentation 🇸🇬

In the Press:

📰 “2024 Will be the Year for Stablecoins” featuring 5 stablecoin predictions by Markus Franke, CEO of Mento Labs. Read the article in Blockworks.

Mento Labs kicked off December with the “12 Days of Mento” celebrating partners across the Mento ecosystem:

• Empowering Communities: impactMarket and Mento Labs Join Forces in Financial Inclusion
• Dunia and Mento Labs: Bringing DeFi to Central and Western Africa
• Unlocking Global Financial Opportunity: Valora's Partnership with Mento Labs
• Mento Labs and RedStone: Enabling Real-World Use Cases for Stablecoins
• CarbonHood and Mento Labs: Empowering Traders with On-Chain Carbon and Crypto Trading
• Exploring cross-chain interoperability: A spotlight on Axelar and Mento Labs partnership
• Crypto Payment Use Cases with Stablecoins: Ammer Group and Mento Labs Partnership

Upcoming Events in Q1 2024

Meet the Mento Labs team IRL at:

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

• Africa Money & DeFi Summit West Africa, February 14-15, Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪
• ETHDenver, February 23-March 3, Denver 🇺🇲

• Mobile World Congress, February 26-29, Barcelona 🇪🇸

Schedule Meeting

Recommended Readings

• Happy 1st Anniversary, Mento Labs: A year of digital asset innovations!

• Highlights of the Mento Labs & Celo Kenya AMA: Introducing Mento Labs to the Celo Community in Kenya

• The Evolution of Mento: Direct distribution and modularity for enhanced stability

• DeFi Security: Discover the Mento circuit breaker in action

To stay up to date on everything that is happening at Mento Labs and with the Mento platform, be sure to follow Mento Labs on Twitter X and LinkedIn, or join the Mento community on Discord.

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