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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