Celo Dollar becomes Mento Dollar and cUSD becomes USDm — Stablecoin Event

Identity and classification

Overview

Date, taxonomy, impact, recovery, mechanism, confidence, and evidence remain separate.

Date	2025-12-17
Public event category	Migration and rebrand
Canonical event subtype	Migration
Structured detail kind	Migration
Stablecoin subjects	Mento Dollar
Organization subjects	Mento Protocol
Impact	Medium
Effect on stablecoin lifecycle	Remained active
Canonical status-effect value	Active
Recovery or reversal	Not applicable
Recovery date	Not Applicable
Cause or mechanism	Pure naming and branding change from Celo Dollar/cUSD to Mento Dollar/USDm, with no contract, peg, balance, integration, or user-action change.
Structured detail coverage	Structured fields available below
Record confidence	High

Date: 2025-12-17
Public category: Migration and rebrand
Canonical subtype: Migration
Structured detail kind: Migration
Impact: Medium
Status effect: Remained active
Recovery: Not applicable
Recovery date: Not yet recorded
Cause or mechanism: Pure naming and branding change from Celo Dollar/cUSD to Mento Dollar/USDm, with no contract, peg, balance, integration, or user-action change.
Record confidence: High

Affected records

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Stablecoin subject

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Organization subject

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Typed record

Event-type-specific facts remain visible with explicit value states.

Structured event detail

Migration detail — Summary	Pure naming and branding change from Celo Dollar/cUSD to Mento Dollar/USDm, with no contract, peg, balance, integration, or user-action change.

Migration detail — Summary: Pure naming and branding change from Celo Dollar/cUSD to Mento Dollar/USDm, with no contract, peg, balance, integration, or user-action change.

Provenance

Source identity, publisher, publication date, reliability, archive, and relation count remain separate.

3 source identities · 4 evidence relations
Source	Publisher	Source category	Provenance	Primary or secondary	Supported claims	Archive	Reliability
The Evolution of Mento: cUSD becomes USDm Published 2025-12-17	Mento	Official statement or announcement Canonical: Official Statement	Subject-controlled source	Primary source	Identity Rebrand, Contract Continuity, Event Date, Rebrand, Identity, Peg, Holder Action, Ceur to Eurm Rebrand No Contract or Peg Change	Archive index or wildcard	High
Mento Reserve and reserve-liquidity strategy Published Not yet recorded	Mento Documentation	Official documentation or product page Canonical: Official Documentation	Subject-controlled source	Primary source	Reserve Mechanism, Mint Burn Mechanics, Protocol Redemption	Archive index or wildcard	High
Mento SDK example using the continuous Celo USDm contract Published Not yet recorded	Mento Documentation	Official documentation or product page Canonical: Official Documentation	Subject-controlled source	Primary source	Contract Identity, Celo Deployment, Protocol Exchange	Archive index or wildcard	High

Maintenance

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