The roadmap for increasing the block size on Celestia was announced amid fierce competition for Data Availability (DA) between rivals such as EigenDA or Avail.
Celestia Announces Roadmap to Increase Block Size to 1 Gigabyte
Celestia , a modular blockchain designed for data availability (DA) , has recently announced its technical roadmap to scale the block size to 1 Gigabyte (GB), bringing a significant increase in data throughput to Celestia's rollup ecosystem .
In the announcement, the development team expects that with blocks up to 1 GB in size, Celestia's transaction processing capacity will be many times larger than Visa - the card network currently processing about 24,000 transactions per second (TPS).
“This opens up many on-chain applications and capabilities that were previously considered unfeasible, such as verifiable web applications and fully on-chain games.”
1 GB blocks to build whatever
— Celestia (@CelestiaOrg) September 5, 2024
Introducing the community's roadmap to relentlessly scale Celestia 🫧, enabling developers to deploy high-throughput, unstoppable applications using any VM. https://t.co/iFkIfJyGSs pic.twitter.com/ILoFFaef54
Specifically, the roadmap to realize the 1 GB goal will be structured into 3 main branches: Abundant blockspace; Verifiable blockspace; and Frictionless blockspace.
- Abundant Blockspace : With the ambition to achieve 1 GB block size, while ensuring Celestia has enough scalability to support a variety of rollups (including high throughput use cases such as Visa-scale payment networks, fully on-chain games, high throughput DeFi ). Thereby unlocking scalability and cheap transaction fees for users. But this branch needs to improve the following 2 things to increase DA throughput:
- Consensus : Optimizing Celestia's consensus network for maximum throughput, allowing for larger blocks to be created, allowing users to access all of the Abundant blockspace's functionality.
- Data availability (DA) : Improve Celestia's DA data network to accommodate data availability sampling (DAS) and larger block replication, while also forcing reduced resource requirements for different node types. In turn, this will give users the option to run low-resource nodes or in their wallets in the background.
- Verifiable Blockspace: Ensures every blockspace can be verified by anyone, anywhere, on any device, allowing users to directly verify the accuracy of Celestia-protected blockspace.
- Light nodes on every device : Bring light nodes to every user's device and wallet, improving security and reducing reliance on third-party proxies or centralized infrastructure.
- Light nodes security : Reduces trust assumptions for both users and node operators, providing higher security assurances.
- Frictionless Blockspace: Focuses on removing any barriers for rollup developers and end users. This goal is Chia into three directions:
- Streaming assets from anywhere (aka Lazybridging) : Improves interoperability between Celestia rollups and the platform layer, addressing modular Shard .
- Rollup Developer Experience : Aims to provide the best possible experience for rollup developers.
- Blobstream : Extend any ecosystem by streaming Celestia data certificates to another Layer-1 .
A simulated overview of the roadmap for increasing the block size to 1 Gigabyte of the Celestia modular blockchain. Source: Celestia Blog
Celestia's focus on increasing block size reflects an industry-wide trend in the quest to increase blockchain network scalability to reduce transaction and storage costs, thereby making data retrieval more efficient.
This is also Celestia's move to compete for market share with other modular blockchain protocols such as EigenDA of EigenLayer recently when it announced a partnership with the Conduit cloud platform to temporarily increase the block size from 2 megabytes to 16 megabytes, thereby helping to reduce operating costs on Layer-2 chains by 8 times.
On the Celestia side, the project has been constantly announcing product integrations with different networks and applications. One of the points that has attracted a lot of attention recently is the Airdrop for stakers of the TIA Token . The most recent projects to announce Airdrop for Celestia stakers include Dymension , Saga or AltLayer .
TIA price chart has not changed much immediately after the news, currently changing hands around $4.1.
1h chart of TIA/ USDT trading pair on Binance taken at 06:30 PM on 06/09/2024.
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