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The Rise of Modularity: Scaling Beyond Monolithic Constraints | Nick White, Celestia

Apr 12, 2023

01:22:30

Episode guests

Nick White

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Episode notes

Introduction

4min

Ethereum's Black List of Validators

2min

The Exploitation of a Routing Contract in Ethereum

5min

How to Use Sushi Swap on Solana

2min

The Preemptive Cool Thorne for the Ethereum Upgrade

5min

The Market Climber for ETH and Crypto

5min

Celestia's Problem Solved

4min

The Future of Cryptocurrency

2min

Celestia: The Mental Model of Interoperability

2min

10.

The Future of Data Accessibility Layers

5min

11.

The Importance of Validity in a Blockchain

2min

12.

The Future of Cryptocurrency

3min

13.

Celestia's Role in Cosmos for App Specific Chains

2min

14.

How to Launch a Chain of Cryptocurrencies

5min

15.

The Future of Sequencers

3min

16.

Networks vs Libraries in Web 3

2min

17.

The Benefits of Having a Shared Sequencer Network

5min

18.

The Trade-Offs of Celeste

2min

19.

The Importance of a Free Celesteia Token

2min

20.

How Celestia's Erasure Coating Works

5min

21.

Ethereum's Data Available Capacity

5min

22.

The Benefits of Using Bitcoin as a DA Layer

4min

23.

Celestia and Data Accessibility Services: The Future of the Modular Stack

1min

24.

Celestia's Block Space Race

4min

Join us on 0xResearch as Nick White explains how Celestia's modular data-availability network enables anyone to deploy scalable blockchains with minimal overhead. Builders have shifted their focus from monolithic L1s to building modular infrastructure that scales through specialization, data availability sampling and cryptography. Learn how modular blockchains can maintain interoperability, Celestia's security guarantees, decentralized sequencers, Ethereum's tradeoffs, trust-minimized settlement and more!

And as usual, we start the episode with our analyst bullpen to discuss a $25M MEV exploit, xNFT backpack, Sushiswap's exploit and ETH's Shapella's upgrade.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:44) Hot Seat/Cool Throne

(22:24) Interview Start: Nick White

(24:18) Celestia’s Value Proposition

(29:40) Lightspeed Promo

(30:20) Maintaining Interoperability

(35:15) Security Guarantees

(39:33) Light Clients

(42:04) Cosmos, Sequencers and Libraries vs Networks

(56:02) Pros and Cons of Ethereum

(58:19) Trust Minimized Bridges and Settlement

(1:02:12) DAS: Erasure Coding vs KZG

(1:13:17) Bitcoin as a DA Layer

(1:16:48) Oracle Infrastructure

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Resources:

Clusters by Mustafa Al-Bassam

https://blog.celestia.org/clusters/

Settlement Assurances by Nic Carter

https://medium.com/@nic__carter/its-the-settlement-assurances-stupid-5dcd1c3f4e41

Libraries vs. Networks by Jesse Walden

https://variant.fund/articles/libraries-vs-networks/

Celestia

https://celestia.org/

https://twitter.com/CelestiaOrg

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