What’s Data Availability (DA) and what’s its Business Model?

In this episode we’re welcomed by Jon Charbonneau, researcher-investor at DBA and Neel Somani, CEO of Eclipse.

We unpack everything Data Availability from what it unlocks to its economics. We also get into the DA Market covering participants like Celestia and EigenDA.

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------ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intro 7:27 What is DA? 16:45 Is DA a Commodity? 23:40 DA Costs 30:23 What DA Unlocks 37:41 The DA Market 1:01:40 Network Effects 1:07:56 DA Economics 1:14:50 DA Value Capture 1:20:23 Celestia Monetary Premium 1:29:10 What’s Next for DA 1:34:29 Solana DA 1:36:01 Closing Thoughts

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Jon Charbonneau https://twitter.com/jon_charb

Neel Somani https://twitter.com/neelsalami

Celestia https://celestia.org/

EigenDA https://docs.eigenlayer.xyz/eigenda/overview

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