- Mary Liu: Head of Bussiness Development at Celestia
Journey to Web3: Applied Mathematics at Columbia; scholars at Harvard, West Point, Tsinghua; 12 working expereince at ventures, governments, labs.
- Celestia: From Fraud proofs & Data availability to Modular architecture
Based on the 2018’s peer-reviewed paper “Fraud and Data Availability Proofs: Maximising Light Client Security and Scaling Blockchains with Dishonest Majorities” (Mustafa Al-Bassam, Alberto Sonnino, Vitalik Buterin).
- Celestia’s Blockspace Race: 800 rollups.
Compare ecosystem and business development of Ethereum vs Cosmos vs Arbitrium.
- When mainnet?
Nick White drives as COO, and Ganesha Upadhyaya as Senior Research Engineer.
- End game at EthCC: scalability vs composability.
Per Delphi Digital’s report: Mustafa starts by defining what is scalability. Throughput vs cost for end user to verify chain. How do we achieve this? Only possible with fault + validity proofs and data availability sampling. We can still achieve censorship-resistance and end-user verifiability in a world of centralized block producers. Specifically on the endgame: will be easier to deploy app on own chain vs. smart contract. Not a good reason for apps to share computation – even as Vitalik counters a bit, says biggest exception is composability.
- Crypto ∩ AI > Web3
Your daily use of generative AI tools? Your favourite Stable Diffusion models?
2023: A Blockspace Odyssey
What is Celestia? | celestia.org
Celestia Docs
December 2022: Testnets Arabica and Mocha are Released
February 2023: Rollup SDK Rollkit is Released
Early March 2023: Incentivized Testnet Launch
June 2023: Mocha Testnet and Arabica Devnet Upgraded
Sept/Oct 2023: Expected Mainnet Launch
Q: How does Celestia’s modular architecture compare to Optimism and Arbitrum and other popular layer-2 scaling solutions?
Q: Given the various other fast layer-1s as well, what types of new use cases are made uniquely possible by Celestia?
Q: What does Celestia's approach to working with projects across the industry look like now?
Q: What are some of the biggest challenges given larger market conditions?
Reflecting on EthCC - Delphi Digital