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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