Celestia is kind of a weird L1 in the sense that what kind of like more B2B than B2C? Okay. But Celestia as a DA, I think in many cases, well, like ideally, it should be abstracted the way because it should be like magic at the end of the day. Like if you're an application developer, there was a quote about this on Twitter or someone said: Jimmy Hendricks does not need to understand how to build a guitar to play the guitar. So it's kind of the same thing with rollup application developers shouldn't have to be protocol developers to create the application. The end goal is to be like magic.
In this week’s episode Anna Rose interviews Mustafa Al-Bassam, co-founder of Celestia. They cover where Celestia as an idea emerged from, how its rollup-centric data availability (DA) network works and what can be expected from their upcoming launch. They also chat about how Celestia aims to empower Sovereign chains - independent rollup chains that use Celestia as the DA and consensus layer - and how this Sovereign chain model compares with the Ethereum rollup architecture.
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