Celestia Aims to Revolutionize Blockchain with 1 GB Blocks
After
several
years
of
development,
Celestia’s
Mainnet
Beta
went
live
last
year.
Since
then,
an
early
ecosystem
has
taken
form,
with
developers
deploying
the
first
20
rollups
and
Celestia
blobs
representing
40%
of
total
data
published,
according
to
the
Celestia
Blog.
Scaling
to
1
Gigabyte
Blocks
The
core
objective
of
Celestia’s
roadmap
is
to
scale
to
1
gigabyte
blocks,
massively
increasing
data
throughput
for
Celestia’s
rollup
ecosystem.
Unlike
traditional
blockchains
that
optimize
a
monolithic
L1,
Celestia
is
not
constrained
by
execution
layer
overhead
or
state
bloat.
This
allows
developers
to
build
high-throughput,
unstoppable
applications
using
any
virtual
machine
(VM),
whether
to
scale
existing
ecosystems
like
Ethereum
or
as
their
own
sovereign
networks.
Several
technical
innovations
are
paving
the
way
to
1
gigabyte
blocks.
These
include
a
content-addressable
mempool,
compact
blocks,
optimizing
CometBFT
block
propagation,
internally
sharding
nodes,
and
an
improved
data
availability
sampling
protocol.
With
these
advancements,
Celestia
aims
to
deliver
the
capacity
of
many
Visa
networks
in
parallel,
unlocking
previously
unviable
on-chain
applications
like
verifiable
web
apps
and
fully
on-chain
gaming.
Verifiable
by
Anyone,
on
Any
Device
Celestia
is
focused
on
making
its
blockspace
verifiable
by
anyone,
on
any
device.
The
community
is
working
to
make
light
nodes
run
in
web
browsers,
enabling
applications
deployed
in
Celestia
blockspace
to
be
verifiable
by
anyone.
An
early
version
of
the
light
node
in
the
browser
is
already
available,
built
by
Eiger
at
Lumina.rs.
Roadmap
Overview
The
roadmap
is
structured
into
three
main
workstreams:
-
Abundant
Blockspace:
Achieving
1GB
blocks
to
scale
to
a
large
number
of
diverse
rollups,
even
for
throughput-hungry
use-cases
like
many
Visa-scale
payment
networks,
fully
on-chain
games,
and
high-throughput
DeFi.
This
includes
optimizing
the
consensus
network
and
improving
the
data
availability
network
to
allow
for
larger
blocks
while
lowering
resource
requirements. -
Verifiable
Blockspace:
Ensuring
that
blockspace
is
verifiable
by
anyone,
anywhere,
on
any
device.
This
involves
bringing
light
nodes
to
every
device
and
enhancing
their
security. -
Frictionless
Blockspace:
Removing
any
friction
for
rollup
developers
and
end-users.
This
includes
improving
interoperability
between
rollups,
enhancing
the
developer
experience,
and
scaling
ecosystems
by
streaming
Celestia’s
data
attestations
to
another
L1.
Community
and
Governance
The
Celestia
community
drives
all
updates
and
initiatives
through
the
Celestia
Improvement
Proposal
(CIP)
process.
This
open
process
allows
anyone
from
the
community
to
weigh
in
and
participate
in
discussions.
More
information
about
the
CIP
process
and
current
in-progress
CIPs
can
be
found
on
their
GitHub
page.
Stay
tuned
for
more
updates
as
the
Celestia
community
continues
to
innovate.
Join
the
discussion
and
contribute
to
Celestia’s
future
today!
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source:
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