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Episode 311: The Launch of Celestia and Beyond

Feb 14, 2024

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Celestia team discusses the launch of Celestia mainnet, DA layer, Blobstream, community building, modular vision, payment mechanics, CIP process, upcoming developments, and events.

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Celestia serves as a data availability layer, allowing applications to post data and receive attestations on the network, offering choices for developers in terms of sovereignty and settlement layer preference.

Blobstream is a one-way bridge from Celestia to Ethereum, enabling verification of data availability on Celestia through attestation on Ethereum, making it more efficient and cost-effective for developers and leading to cheaper transaction costs for layer two solutions.

Celestia has implemented a Celestia Improvement Proposal (CIP) process, involving working groups and external teams to achieve rough consensus on technical specifications, allowing for community participation in proposing and discussing changes to Celestia off-chain and materializing them on-chain.

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Celestia is a data availability layer and live P2P network

Celestia is a data availability layer and live P2P network that ensures transactions are published to the network and can be downloaded and executed. It allows for validity proofs or optimistic rollups using state fraud proofs. Applications can post data on Celestia instead of on the settlement layer, such as Ethereum, and receive attestations that the data was published. Celestia offers choices for developers to determine the level of sovereignty and settlement layer they prefer.

Solving the Big Block Problem

00:54

Introduction

2min

Revisiting Celestia and the Project Launch

2min

Introductions, Previous Collaborations, and Wi-Fi Distortion

2min

Roles and Responsibilities within Celestia Organization

18min

Blob Stream and its Role in the Celestia Launch

13min

Understanding Celestia's Role in L2 Smart Contracts

14min

Making Choices and Payment Mechanics

6min

Modular Stack and CIP Process

11min

Upcoming Developments and Features in the Pipeline

5min

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Upcoming Events and Community Building

6min

In this week’s episode, Anna and Guillermo chat with Yaz Khoury and Ismail Khoffi from Celestia. They share how the team prepared for the launch of the Celestia mainnet and what has been happening at Celestia since. They revisit the topic of DA (Data Availability) and explore how rollups and dApp developers can already use the Celestia DA layer. The group discusses Blobstream, which brings the benefits of Celestia to Ethereum and helps to scale the network, as well as community building, the modular thesis and much more.

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Episode 311: The Launch of Celestia and Beyond

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Quick takeaways

Deep dives

Celestia is a data availability layer and live P2P network

Blobstream enables data posting and verification

Celestia's CIP process and working groups

Blobstream deployment and its benefits for Ethereum scalability

Addressing the big block problem and the role of Celestia

Solving the Big Block Problem

Aleo is a new Layer-1 blockchain that achieves the programmability of Ethereum, the privacy of Zcash, and the scalability of a rollup.

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Episode 311: The Launch of Celestia and Beyond

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Quick takeaways

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Celestia is a data availability layer and live P2P network

Blobstream enables data posting and verification

Celestia's CIP process and working groups

Blobstream deployment and its benefits for Ethereum scalability

Addressing the big block problem and the role of Celestia

Solving the Big Block Problem

Aleo is a new Layer-1 blockchain that achieves the programmability of Ethereum, the privacy of Zcash, and the scalability of a rollup.

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