Alex Beckett

A significant milestone is coming up for Celestia, in coordination with its community: The Lemongrass upgrade. This milestone contains many consensus layer changes, such as Interchain Accounts, Packet Forward Middleware, and CIP-10, a mechanism which simplifies future upgrades. The release of v2.0.0 of celestia-app will be used to

The Infinite Space Bazaar hackathon has come to a close. And now it’s time to announce the winners. The first Celestia global online hackathon extended to developer and creative participants, featuring tracks for applications, UX, core infrastructure, and community. Congratulations to the more than 1400 participants and 70+ submissions

The Infinite Space Bazaar, Celestia’s first global online hackathon, is here. From April 2 to May 17, builders worldwide will have the opportunity to compete for $100K+ in hackathon prizes. Register now. TracksThe hackathon will feature four tracks. Three for builders and a dedicated track for the broader community

Gm, Members of the Celestia Labs team are headed to ETHDenver with a packed schedule of events, talks, and hackathons. Let’s see what’s in store! ETHDenverFor the main event at ETHDenver, there’s a couple of talks lined up: Nick White (panel): Cheap, Safe, Nimble: DA and the

Not long ago, images of light nodes started popping up all over Twitter. Some were photoshopped onto DJ decks, and others showcased light nodes running next to waterfalls. During it all, we announced the light node challenge to spur the community’s creativity. Now that the light node challenge has

The Celestia community has spent months stress-testing the Celestia network during the Blockspace Race. And now Oolong is being unveiled. Named after the Chinese tea, Oolong is the most recent upgrade to Arabica Devnet and Mocha Testnet. This upgrade serves as a release candidate for mainnet. If everything goes smoothly,

Gm modularists, Members from the Celestia Labs team are heading to Prague for the Gateway conference and ETH prague! We plan on giving talks, participating on panels, and hosting events throughout the week. Be sure to find any of our team during these events if you want to get in

Scarcity negatively impacts monolithic blockchains users two ways. First, scarce blockspace makes blockchains expensive for users. Second, scarcity of choice limits the options developers, restricting innovation. Modular blockchains decouple consensus from execution, enabling blockchains to be purpose-built for a specialty. This lets modular blockchains deliver abundant blockspace for cheap access

We are excited to introduce the Blockspace Race, Celestia’s incentivized testnet program! The Blockspace Race is the largest ever testnet to support data availability sampling, with 700+  sampling light nodes. Throughout 2022, we shipped multiple testnets including Mamaki, the first to support data availability sampling. While these testnets proved

Neutral and independent from Celestia, Rollkit serves as a community-led public good that empowers developers with the freedom to deploy throughout the modular stack and accelerate innovation

Gm modularists, Celestia Labs is heading to ETHDenver! We look forward to meeting many teams and builders during our time there. Be sure to find any of our team during events to reach out and discuss all things Celestia and modular blockchains. ETHDenverFor the main event, ETHDenver, we will give