It’s the most wonderful time of the year - ✨ onboarding season.✨
With crypto optimism at an ATH, crypto has never been more accessible. And for those who aren’t onchain just yet, we’ve compiled our favorite 2024 highlights from the Valora and Mobile Stack community that are enough to show it's never been easier to try the best of what Web3 has to offer.
Building mobile-friendly UX
Valora introduced several key engagement tools & integrations this year to enhance mobile-friendly UX… here is 2024 at a glance:
- Simplified Onboarding: Email & phone login—no seed phrases needed!
- Cross-Chain Swaps: Seamless token swaps across chains
- Valora Points: Collect points for onchain actions
- In-App Earning Pools: Earn on stablecoins in just a few taps with Allbridge, Aave, and Beefy.
- Live Links: Send funds to anyone with a link via any messaging app
- Multi-Chain Support: In addition to Celo and Ethereum, we added support for Base, Optimism & Arbitrum this year to provide more options across EVM chains
Empowering communities through education & onboarding
Valora has an active ambassador community around the globe! Some highlights from this year:
- Brazil, Vietnam & South Africa: Learn & Earn campaigns with Tether introduce Web3 education to new audiences and help them onboard easily with Valora.
- Nigeria: Our ambassadors created incredible content, inspiring more widespread crypto adoption in their communities.
- Brazil & South Africa: Welcomed new ambassadors to help Valora educate and empower even more users.
- Colombia: Local ambassadors hosted meetups and onboarding workshops, bringing Web3 to life for new users by onboarding them w/ $cCOP & Valora.
- Global Treasure Hunt: We celebrated sending funds to virtually anyone, virtually anywhere, with just a link through an epic 24-hour treasure hunt. Thousands joined in, setting a record for community participation!
Partnering with the best across Web3
We’re working with top projects to make it easier for you to access onchain opportunities. Here's how:
- Moonpay makes buying crypto seamless.
- Fonbnk brings mobile-first on-ramps for emerging markets.
- Tether, Circle, & Mento power secure global transactions with stable assets.
- Celo, Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, & Optimism enable seamless access to DeFi across EVM chains.
Together, we're simplifying Web3 and making it accessible via mobile.
Transforming your projects into mobile apps with Mobile Stack
Launched by the Valora team in July, Mobile Stack is a decentralized mobile app infrastructure that provides builders with a streamlined solution to easily build, customize, & launch native mobile apps. Meet the Mobile Stack ecosystem:
- SheFi Wallet: Onboarding women & non-binary folks into Web3
- cKES Stablecoin app: A wallet for accessing local digital currencies
- Troopo: A savings and earnings app from @StakeCapital
Why it matters:
- Modular & customizable for tailored user experiences
- Simplified onboarding to grow Web3 adoption
- EVM-compatible for seamless integrations
Are you a builder? Be sure to check out Mobile Stack.
Making Web3 Mobile — on & off-stage!
Our team is bullish on bringing billions of users onchain through mobile-friendly UX and has been hard at work sharing our vision at key industry events.
- EthCC, Brussels: CTO Silas Boyd-Wickizer delivered a keynote on onboarding the next billion users to Web3.
- Token2049, Singapore: Valora connected with leaders pushing Web3 innovation - CEO Jackie Bona gave a keynote on the mobile frontier, and COO Denisse spoke on a panel about the future of consumer crypto.
- Devcon, Bangkok: CEO Jackie Bona tackled adoption barriers in emerging markets.
- Silas explored mobile solutions for global stablecoin adoption at the UnStable Summit.
- SheFi Summit attendees explored the new SheFi Wallet (powered by Mobile Stack).
- Director of Product Laura Suttie urged builders to “Break up with your Bad UX,” and Denisse led a panel on manifesting PMF.
Creating opportunities in Web3 education
We partnered with Tether, Celo, and The Stabila Foundation to launch a global Learn & Earn campaign and onboard new users to USD₮ and Web3. The response was incredible! Thousands embraced the opportunity to learn and earn, proving that Web3 education can be accessible, rewarding, & fun. Since launching:
- Over 250k+ global community members onboarded
- USDT holders on Celo have 5x’d since campaign start
L&E is still live in Brazil, South Africa, and Vietnam! 🇧🇷 🇿🇦 🇻🇳
Focusing on the future
We have plenty more in store for our community in 2025! Look for your favorite dapps as mobile apps (via Mobile Stack). Next year, it will be even easier to access DeFi & Web3, all from mobile. Plus, stay tuned for new features for Valora & Mobile Stack to improve the user experience.
Crypto isn’t going anywhere; in fact, we’re just getting started.
As we wrap up 2024, we want to thank our global community for an amazing year. If you’re passionate about building the future of Web3 & making it mobile, join our growing team.
Here’s to an even bigger 2025, and thank you to our community for being part of the journey!
Follow @Valora and @MobileStackXYZ to keep up-to-date as more features, partnerships, and updates become available. For any questions or feedback, @AskValora is always here for you!
