Mustafa Al-Bassam

In this week’s episode Anna Rose interviews Mustafa Al-Bassam, co-founder of Celestia. They cover where Celestia as an idea emerged from, how its rollup-centric data availability (DA) network works and what can be expected from their upcoming launch. They also chat about how Celestia aims to empower Sovereign chains - independent rollup chains that use Celestia as the DA and consensus layer - and how this Sovereign chain model compares with the Ethereum rollup architecture. Here are some additional links for this episode:Episode 208: Digging into Data Availability with Ismail Khoffi from Celestia A rollup-centric ethereum roadmap Introducing Rollkit: a modular rollup framework My first impressions of web3 Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance Check out the ZK Jobs Board here: ZK Jobs. Aleo is a new Layer-1 blockchain that achieves the programmability of Ethereum, the privacy of Zcash, and the scalability of a rollup.Interested in building private applications? Check out Aleo’s programming language called Leo by visiting http://developer.aleo.org.You can also participate in Aleo’s incentivized testnet3 by downloading and running a snarkOS node. No sign-up is necessary to participate.For questions, join their Discord at aleo.org/discord.If you like what we do:Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree Subscribe to our podcast newsletterFollow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefmJoin us on TelegramCatch us on YouTube Read transcript

Mustafa Al-Bassam, co-founder and CEO of Celestia Labs, and COO Nick White join to unveil the vision behind Celestia, a revolutionary data availability layer for blockchains. They discuss the concept of '10,000 roll-ups' and how modular blockchains enhance scalability, especially for gaming and NFTs. Mustafa explains data availability sampling and its crucial role in ensuring reliable data for validators. The duo also explores the potential for Celestia to serve as a data layer for Bitcoin, comparing its architecture with Solana, highlighting a new era in decentralized applications.

Ismail Khoffi, a pioneer in blockchain scalability and modularity, teams up with Mustafa Al-Bassam, an expert in rollups and interoperability. They dive into Celestia's revolutionary approach to blockchain with its modular architecture. The duo discusses how Celestia prioritizes data availability and scalability. They also unveil innovations like lazy bridging and Zero-Knowledge proofs that promise enhanced interoperability. Plus, they explore the balance of decentralization and governance, highlighting the potential of sovereign rollups in the evolving crypto landscape.

Mustafa Al-Bassam, co-founder of Celestia Labs, shares his wild journey from a teenage hacktivist in LulzSec to a leading blockchain innovator. He reveals how hacking a military contractor ignited his passion for technology. Mustafa discusses Celestia's unique modular approach to solving blockchain scalability and the importance of data availability sampling. He believes the project has achieved remarkable product-market fit and teases exciting future developments aimed at enhancing decentralization and user experience.

In this engaging conversation, Mustafa Al-Bassam, Co-founder of Celestia and author of the Lazy Ledger white paper, along with Ismail Coffey, Co-founder and CTO, delve into the innovative modular blockchain, Celestia. They discuss its unique approach to data availability, how it significantly improves scalability, and its potential impact on the crypto landscape. The duo further explains the synergies with Ethereum, the economic dynamics of Celestia's native token, $TIA, and the exciting future of decentralized applications built on this groundbreaking architecture.