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Celestia’s v6 upgrade, Matcha, is now live on Arabica testnet and on its way to Mainnet, marking the biggest upgrade yet. Matcha enables Celestia to scale up to 128MB blocks with a new high-throughput block propagation mechanism. This represents a big step towards the Celestia roadmap’s core objective| Celestia Blog
Introducing the first demo of Lazybridging, showcasing TIA transferred back and forth between Celestia and a ZK EVM rollup. This demo marks the first step towards Lazybridging on mainnet, where apps let users access any asset securely within 1 second. Lazybridging demo The Lazybridging demo shows TIA bridged from a| Celestia Blog
Celestia’s v4 mainnet upgrade, Lotus, is on the horizon. Lotus integrates Hyperlane as a Cosmos SDK module. Hyperlane enables direct TIA interop for new Celestia rollups and non-Celestia chains with Hyperlane deployments, such as Ethereum Mainnet, Base, Arbitrum One, and more. Lotus also makes several changes to Celestia in| Celestia Blog
Today we're introducing mamo-1, a public testnet that pushes Celestia to new extremes. Built for applications at the frontier, mamo-1 delivers 128MB blocks and 21.33MB/s of permissionless throughput—offering the infrastructure needed to test real-world, high-throughput applications and prepare for the road to 1GB blocks. That’s over| Celestia Blog
gmamo, ETHDenver is around the corner, and of course, there’s a bunch of Celestia events on the schedule. Let's get into it. Mammoth huntA small QR code will be hidden around the start of ETHDenver. The QR code will contain a prize for the first person to find it:| Celestia Blog
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| Celestia Blog
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| Celestia Blog
gMammoth, Events, talks, co-working and more is in store for the modular community in Bangkok during Devcon. Let’s get into it. Modular BangkokModular 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| Celestia Blog
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| Celestia Blog
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| Celestia Blog
With Celestia underneath, developers can deploy high-throughput, unstoppable applications with full-stack customizability.| Celestia Blog
After several years of development, Celestia Mainnet Beta went live last year. Since then, an early ecosystem has taken form, with developers deploying the first 20 rollups and Celestia blobs represent 40% of total data published. Alongside growth of the early ecosystem, Celestia’s core developer community has been working| Celestia Blog
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| Celestia Blog
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| Celestia Blog
Gmodular, Members of the Celestia Labs team are headed to ETH Dubai and Token 2049 in Dubai with a packed schedule of events, talks, and hackathons. Let’s see what’s in store! ETHDubaiFor the main event at ETHDubai on April 20, there are a few talks and workshops lined| Celestia Blog
At 14:00 UTC today, Celestia was successfully deployed to Mainnet Beta, codenamed Lemon Mint, marking the arrival of the first modular data availability network. Today marks a massive milestone for the Celestia community. What was once considered a wild moonshot is now a reality four years after the LazyLedger| Celestia Blog
PRESS RELEASE| Celestia Blog
Today, we introduce the Celestia Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Liechtenstein. The Foundation’s purpose is to guide the Celestia ecosystem and uphold its values. A core belief of the Celestia community is that users should be first-class citizens of networks. Users become first-class citizens when they can directly| Celestia Blog
The journey began in 2019 with the ambitious goal of creating a modular blockchain ecosystem with data availability layers and “execution engines” that seamlessly integrate. This vision has evolved into a thriving and collaborative ecosystem. Now, after years of development, the Celestia network is ready to launch. Exploring the unexplored| Celestia Blog
Today Celestia Labs introduces Blobstream, which streams Celestia’s modular data availability layer to Ethereum. Formerly known as the Quantum Gravity Bridge (QGB), Blobstream relays commitments of Celestia’s data root using an onchain light client, enabling Ethereum developers to create high-throughput L2s as easily as they develop smart contracts.| Celestia Blog
The Celestia Foundation is pleased to announce the Celestia Improvement Proposal (CIP) Process. The CIP process aims to coordinate technical proposals in the Celestia community to help improve the network across the modular stack, including core protocol upgrades. A vital aspect of the trust-minimisation that Celestia strives for is that| Celestia Blog
Celestia’s genesis block, expected later this year, will start the first modular data availability network. With it will arrive TIA, the native asset of Celestia. Like in other permissionless protocols, TIA enables participation in network consensus and decentralised governance of network parameters and the community pool. But core to| Celestia Blog
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| Celestia Blog
This week marks the 4th anniversary of the LazyLedger whitepaper. To commemorate, we’re announcing the Light Node Challenge, a contest to find the most creative, daring, and entertaining ways that people can run a Celestia light node. The challenge starts today and ends June 30, 2023. There will be| Celestia Blog
