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How Opera and Celo Plan to Bring Financial Inclusion to One Billion People by 2030

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🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Opera EVP of Mobile Jørgen Arnesen and Celo Co-Founder Rene Reinsberg announce an extension of their MiniPay partnership. Opera and Celo are extending their MiniPay partnership, aiming to onboard one billion people into the Web3 economy by 2030. Celo Co-Founder Rene Reinsberg and Opera EVP of Mobile Jørgen Arnesen join CoinDesk Live from Binance Blockchain Week to discuss the announcement and share how this product abstracts crypto complexity, enabling easy payments and access to mini apps for hundreds of millions of existing Opera users. - This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie and Sam Ewen.

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0:00.0

Co-founder of Sello, Renee Risenberg,

0:05.0

and EVP of Mobile for Opera Jorgian Arneson.

0:08.0

Join us now. Hello.

0:12.0

It's great to be here.

0:14.0

Yeah.

0:15.0

Thanks for having us.

0:16.0

Great to have you here.

0:17.0

Now, we're talking about onboarding the masses.

0:20.0

And what we're saying is maybe it's going to take a little bit longer than the industry hopes.

0:26.6

Talk to us about your perspective.

0:30.6

You're already doing it, aren't you?

0:32.6

Yeah, it's happening.

0:33.6

It's happening now.

0:34.6

And it's happening, I think, way faster than we're expecting. And, you know,

0:38.3

it took some time to get the basic plumbing in place. And I wrote about this earlier this year,

0:43.8

when, you know, I was reflecting on five years of Salomeenet being life and all the stuff that had happened.

0:49.3

But it was really all the building blocks that were needed to now finally unleash that kind of scaling

0:55.2

that we want to see. And so I put out this kind of vision for 2030 where my hope is that

1:01.4

Selo can be the home for like a trillion dollar economy that actually, you know, brings

1:06.8

a billion people on chain and has them enjoy all these amazing services we're all building.

1:12.5

And, you know, one of the big, actually products to make that happen, I would say this is like

1:18.9

the superstar product in Web Street right now is Minipay. And that's what Yorgon and his team

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