Celestia Rollkit: Modular frameworks—the future of blockchains or just another narrative?
Aug 7, 2023
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In this podcast, the hosts discuss Rollkit, a new application development framework that enables developers to build next-generation blockchain applications. They explore the architecture of Celestia and its role in modularizing the entire stack and outsourcing security. They also discuss the compatibility of Cosmos SDK and Cosmwasm with Rollkit, the potential for Celestia adoption with different chains, and the challenges of trust, decentralization, and regulatory abuse. Additionally, they talk about Celestia's grants programs, the Rocket project, and community engagement.
Rollkit is a modular framework built on top of Celestia, providing security, scalability, flexibility, and sovereignty to developers.
Rollkit allows developers to easily plug and play different data availability layers, enhancing the decentralized nature of the ecosystem.
Deep dives
Overview of Celestia and Roll Kit
Celestia is a blockchain platform that focuses on consensus and data availability, allowing developers to outsource execution. Roll Kit, a modular framework for deploying rollups, is built on top of Celestia, enabling developers to easily create their own rollups. The combination of Celestia and Roll Kit provides security, scalability, flexibility, and sovereignty to developers, solving the problems faced when building applications using platforms like Ethereum or Cosmos.
The Benefits of Roll Kit
Roll Kit offers benefits to both developers starting from scratch and existing L1 chains. For new developers, Roll Kit enables them to quickly and cost-effectively bootstrap their applications and bring them to market. For existing L1 chains, Roll Kit allows them to convert into rollups, leveraging Celestia's security and scalability while reducing the costs and time associated with managing a network. Roll Kit also offers the option of building sovereign or non-sovereign rollups, providing flexibility based on developers' specific needs.
Interoperability and Pluggable Data Availability Layers
Roll Kit, through compatibility with ABCI, enables developers to easily plug and play different data availability (DA) layers. This feature allows for interoperability within the Cosmos ecosystem and potentially with other EVM chains. Roll Kit abstracts the execution environment and allows for different virtual machines to be used, providing competitive options for developers based on their specific requirements. The focus on pluggable DA layers ensures trust-minimized and secure operation of applications, enhancing the decentralized nature of the ecosystem.
Future Vision and Community Involvement
Celestia and Roll Kit aim to empower developers and bring applications into the hands of millions while maintaining trust-minimized frameworks. The team is focused on continually improving the stack, including features like light clients that can securely run on mobile devices. Roll Kit also plans to foster a community that contributes to the project, with upcoming community calls and an emphasis on collaboration with other projects, such as alternate VMs like Move VM and participation in grants programs.
Rollkit is a new application development framework that lets developers roll their own L2 rollup on top of any data availability (DA) layer that they choose. Going forward, developers could deploy a rollup on top of Celestia, Cosmos Hub, Osmosis, or any compatible underlying Cosmos chain. Rollkit is a watershed tool for building next generation blockchain applications within a much more scalable paradigm compared to its monolithic counterparts. Is the Celestia "modular framework" pure narrative or does this design actually scale?