The Launch of Celestia and Beyond

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.

Here’s some additional links for this episode:

• Episode 151: John Adler on Optimistic vs ZK Rollup and the data availability problem
• Episode 208: Digging into Data Availability with Ismail Khoffi from Celestia
• Episode 268: A Rollup-Centric Future & Sovereign Chains with Mustafa Al-Bassam
• Ismail Khoffi of Celestia (Sovereign Radio)
• Celestia Improvement Proposal GitHub
• Introducing the Celestia Improvement Proposal Process
• Introduction to Arbitrum rollups with Celestia as DA
• Introducing Blobstream: streaming modular DA to Ethereum
• Raspberry Pi Foundation
• Succinct Network
• Episode 308: Avail’s Approach to DA with Prabal Banerjee
• Episode 217: Information Theory & Blockchain with Sreeram Kannan
• Cosmos Hub
• Modular Summit Website

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