Privacy infrastructure provider Ligero has announced its integration with Celo, the Ethereum layer-2 network built for global payments and programmable stablecoins. The move brings Ligero’s compliant private payments technology into the Celo ecosystem, allowing transactions where the sender, recipient, and amount are shielded while maintaining KYC-verified access, selective disclosure, audit trails, and programmable controls such as whitelists, blacklists, and freezing capabilities at the transaction layer.
The initial rollout targets enterprise use cases including payroll, treasury transfers, merchant and freelancer payments, and stablecoin transfers between businesses. Celo co-founder and CEO of Celo Core Co., Marek Olszewski, said the integration “opens new use cases for institutions, payroll providers and payment partners.” Ligero CEO and co-founder Muthu Venkitasubramaniam emphasized that public blockchains create traceable relationships between wallets, undermining privacy, and that Ligero’s architecture solves this by protecting payment details while meeting regulatory requirements.
