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Oct 15, 2024

The Shwap upgrade: 12x faster DA sampling

Celestia Mainnet Beta recently completed its first upgrade , introducing the first new set of features to the consensus network. The data availability (DA) network is scheduled to receive its first upgrade with Shwap - now activated on Arabica and Mocha testnets with v0.18.2 of celestia-node . Shwap makes DA sampling 12x faster and reduces storage requirements by 16.5x,

Sep 23, 2024

Celestia Foundation raises $100M

The Celestia Foundation today announced it has raised $100 million in support led by Bain Capital Crypto, with participation from Syncracy Capital, 1kx, Robot Ventures, Placeholder, and more. This brings the project’s total amount raised to $155M. Celestia Mainnet Beta went live in October 2023, delivering the industry’s first specialized modular consensus and data network. Since launch, an early ecosystem has taken form, with developers deploying the first 20 rollup chains [https://celenium.i

Nov 21, 2024

Lazybridging: the Celestia endgame to solve fragmentation and stream assets from anywhere

Earlier this year, the Celestia roadmap was published. An important part of the roadmap is adding ZK verification natively to the Celestia base layer, so that rollups can directly bridge assets via Celestia. In this post, we explore how adding ZK to the base layer unlocks Lazybridging - the Celestia endgame for a frictionless modular user experience. Lazybridging will enable end-users to interact with assets across multiple rollups and beyond, all with the s

Oct 25, 2024

Celestia in Bangkok

gMammoth, Events, talks, co-working and more is in store for the modular community in Bangkok during Devcon. Let’s get into it. Modular Bangkok Modular Day is back again, this time with a focus on new builders going modular. On November 10, Modular Bangkok , co-hosted with Movement Labs and ContributionDAO , will feature a day of workshops and developer-focused talks. The workshops will give you an overview

Oct 24, 2024

Introducing the Ginger upgrade: faster finality, higher throughput

The Lemongrass upgrade , deployed to Mainnet Beta in September, was Celestia’s first consensus upgrade. The upcoming Ginger upgrade, i.e. celestia-app v3, is the second. Ginger brings The Doubling, an immediate 2x increase to Celestia’s data availability throughput! In v3, this is achieved by decreasing block times from 12 seconds to 6 seconds, which also improves UX with faster transaction single-slot finality times. Ginger also sets th

Oct 22, 2024

Initial results from Mammoth Mini: 27MB/s of permissionless data throughput

The Celestia core developer community recently unveiled a roadmap to massively scale data throughput towards our next major destination: 1GB blocks. Today Celestia Labs is unveiling results from the proof-of-concept Mammoth Mini testnet that implements 88 MB blocks with an average of 27 MB/s of permissionless data throughput—a giant leap towards 1 GB blocks and beyond. Mammoth Mini meets an emerging need for extreme data throughput, from order-of-magnitude

Oct 15, 2024

The Shwap upgrade: 12x faster DA sampling

Celestia Mainnet Beta recently completed its first upgrade , introducing the first new set of features to the consensus network. The data availability (DA) network is scheduled to receive its first upgrade with Shwap - now activated on Arabica and Mocha testnets with v0.18.2 of celestia-node . Shwap makes DA sampling 12x faster and reduces storage requirements by 16.5x,

Sep 23, 2024

Celestia Foundation raises $100M

The Celestia Foundation today announced it has raised $100 million in support led by Bain Capital Crypto, with participation from Syncracy Capital, 1kx, Robot Ventures, Placeholder, and more. This brings the project’s total amount raised to $155M. Celestia Mainnet Beta went live in October 2023, delivering the industry’s first specialized modular consensus and data network. Since launch, an early ecosystem has taken form, with developers deploying the first 20 rollup chains [https://celenium.i

Nov 21, 2024

Lazybridging: the Celestia endgame to solve fragmentation and stream assets from anywhere

Earlier this year, the Celestia roadmap was published. An important part of the roadmap is adding ZK verification natively to the Celestia base layer, so that rollups can directly bridge assets via Celestia. In this post, we explore how adding ZK to the base layer unlocks Lazybridging - the Celestia endgame for a frictionless modular user experience. Lazybridging will enable end-users to interact with assets across multiple rollups and beyond, all with the s

Oct 25, 2024

Celestia in Bangkok

gMammoth, Events, talks, co-working and more is in store for the modular community in Bangkok during Devcon. Let’s get into it. Modular Bangkok Modular Day is back again, this time with a focus on new builders going modular. On November 10, Modular Bangkok , co-hosted with Movement Labs and ContributionDAO , will feature a day of workshops and developer-focused talks. The workshops will give you an overview

Oct 24, 2024

Introducing the Ginger upgrade: faster finality, higher throughput

The Lemongrass upgrade , deployed to Mainnet Beta in September, was Celestia’s first consensus upgrade. The upcoming Ginger upgrade, i.e. celestia-app v3, is the second. Ginger brings The Doubling, an immediate 2x increase to Celestia’s data availability throughput! In v3, this is achieved by decreasing block times from 12 seconds to 6 seconds, which also improves UX with faster transaction single-slot finality times. Ginger also sets th

Oct 22, 2024

Initial results from Mammoth Mini: 27MB/s of permissionless data throughput

The Celestia core developer community recently unveiled a roadmap to massively scale data throughput towards our next major destination: 1GB blocks. Today Celestia Labs is unveiling results from the proof-of-concept Mammoth Mini testnet that implements 88 MB blocks with an average of 27 MB/s of permissionless data throughput—a giant leap towards 1 GB blocks and beyond. Mammoth Mini meets an emerging need for extreme data throughput, from order-of-magnitude

Oct 15, 2024

The Shwap upgrade: 12x faster DA sampling

Celestia Mainnet Beta recently completed its first upgrade , introducing the first new set of features to the consensus network. The data availability (DA) network is scheduled to receive its first upgrade with Shwap - now activated on Arabica and Mocha testnets with v0.18.2 of celestia-node . Shwap makes DA sampling 12x faster and reduces storage requirements by 16.5x,

Sep 23, 2024

Celestia Foundation raises $100M

The Celestia Foundation today announced it has raised $100 million in support led by Bain Capital Crypto, with participation from Syncracy Capital, 1kx, Robot Ventures, Placeholder, and more. This brings the project’s total amount raised to $155M. Celestia Mainnet Beta went live in October 2023, delivering the industry’s first specialized modular consensus and data network. Since launch, an early ecosystem has taken form, with developers deploying the first 20 rollup chains [https://celenium.i