Mustafa Alba-Sam is a co-founder at Celestia. He first got into blockchain networks and technology in around 2011, 2010 when Bitcoin was one or two years old. The reason why he found Ethereum very interesting is because it was obviously a general purpose, smart contract platform. But for people like me, I was also interested in the technological aspects of decentralization and peer-to-peer networks.
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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Aleo is a new Layer-1 blockchain that achieves the programmability of Ethereum, the privacy of Zcash, and the scalability of a rollup.
Interested in building private applications? Check out Aleo’s programming language called Leo by visiting http://developer.aleo.org.
You can also participate in Aleo’s incentivized testnet3 by downloading and running a snarkOS node. No sign-up is necessary to participate.
For questions, join their Discord at aleo.org/discord.
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