The first modular blockchain network

Celestia is a modular consensus and data network, built to enable anyone to easily deploy their own blockchain with minimal overhead.
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Advantages

Build
Deploy your own blockchain in minutes, as easily as a smart contract
Scale
Access the dynamic scaling unlocked by data availability sampling, where scale increases with the number of users
Customize
Create applications using your favorite VM or define your own
Sovereign
Build sovereign rollups, a new type of self-governing blockchain with minimal platform risk

How it works

Celestia is a minimal blockchain that only orders and publishes transactions and does not execute them. By decoupling the consensus and application execution layers, Celestia modularizes the blockchain technology stack and unlocks new possibilities for decentralized application builders.
Traditional monolithic architecture
  • Developers can only use programming languages supported by chain's execution environment
  • All applications run on the same process (the world computer model), with shared gas resources
  • Smart contracts cannot be updated without a hard fork
Celestia-enabled modular architecture
  • Developers can effortlessly define their own virtual execution environments; similar to virtual machines
  • Each application gets its own sovereign execution space, while inheriting the security of Celestia's consensus
  • Applications can be updated without main chain hard forks

Roadmap

  • H1 2021
    Seed Fundraise
    MVP Release
  • H2 2021
    Devnet Release
  • 2022
    Testnet Release
  • 2023
    Incentivized Testnet
  • 2023
    Mainnet Launch

Run a node on testnet

Experiment and practice running a node on testnet in preparation for mainnet.

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Built by industry-leading engineers, researchers and entrepreneurs

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