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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

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

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The Ethereum Off-Chain Data Availability Landscape

Blockchains need to guarantee data availability (DA), especially in the case of rollup and layer 2 (L2) chains. The blockchain data availability problem goes like this: participants of blockchain networks can get locked out from interpreting the state or further updating it when block producers advance the state of the

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Quantum Gravity Bridge: Secure Off-Chain Data Availability for Ethereum L2s with Celestia

tl;dr: This post introduces the Quantum Gravity Bridge project, a Celestia to Ethereum data availability (DA) bridge. From the onset of DeFi Summer in 2020, through the eruption of NFTs in 2021, and now an escalation of DAOs, the demand for blockspace on Ethereum has exploded. The deadly combo