Concluding the light node challenge 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
Introducing the Oolong upgrade to Celestia testnets 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,
Celestia in Prague 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
How modular blockchains create a world of abundance 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
The Blockspace Race 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
Introducing Rollkit: a modular rollup framework 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
Celestia at ETHDenver 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
Technology Modular vs monolithic: a beginner's guide You’ve probably heard it before. Celestia is the first modular blockchain network. But what is a modular blockchain, and how does Celestia fit into this? That’s what this post is all about - the brief version anyway. TLDR The first approach to building blockchains was a monolithic design
Announcements Introducing sovereign rollups to developers It’s been a short while since we deployed Mamaki, the Celestia testnet. With a successful launch, we rolled out our alpha data availability API and introduced data availability sampling - a key ingredient in Celestia’s scalable architecture. In the meantime, we introduced sovereign rollups to the world -
Technology Q2 Engineering Update It's been a whirlwind the past few months, first and foremost with the successful launch of the Mamaki testnet. The data availability nodes on Mamaki have been working as intended while pending upgrades, such as bad encoding fraud proofs, were fully rolled out. We conducted various other internal tests for
Announcements Celestia Testnet Introduces Alpha Data Availability API Today, we are excited to announce the launch of the new Celestia “Mamaki” testnet! This marks the next step in our road towards Celestia mainnet - a modular blockchain network that decouples consensus from execution. We are one step closer to enabling anyone to easily deploy their own blockchain, without
