Celo Offers Up to 37% Boosted Voter Rewards for Verified Users

πŸ—³οΈ 37% rewards locked

By Velodrome
Nov 3, 2025, 2:31 PM
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Celo is offering enhanced voter rewards of up to 37% for verified users across multiple liquidity pools.​

Current Reward Rates:

  • USDT-WETH: ~37%
  • USDT-USDC: ~37%
  • USDT-cUSD: ~26%
  • CELO-USDT: ~25%

Requirements:

  • Complete identity verification with SelfProtocol
  • Vote for eligible pools during the current epoch
  • Rewards are only claimable after verification

This represents a verification-gated incentive system where boosted rewards are distributed normally but require identity verification to claim.​ Rates have remained stable compared to previous epochs, with USDT-WETH and USDT-USDC maintaining the highest yields.​

Note: vAPRs change frequently based on market conditions.​

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Boosted Voter Rewards on @Celo β€’ $USDT - $WETH: ~29% β€’ $USDT - $USDC: ~24% β€’ $USDT - $cUSD: ~21% To earn boosted rewards, get verified with @SelfProtocol and vote for the pools below πŸ‘‡

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Onchain rewards, but only for humans... Who's building this? We are. Velodrome has teamed up with @celo & @SelfProtocol to pioneer a new token standard: VerifiedERC20––and its first application is enabling voting rewards for zk-verified humans Here's how it works πŸ‘‡

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