Celestia: A technical overview

February 22, 2022, 10:35AM EST

• 11 min read

Quick Take

Celestia is a data availability layer that aims to solve one of the fundamental constraints of blockchain scaling — data availability
By abstracting consensus from state execution, Celestia promises a more performant network than blockchains that lump the two together
Celestia utilizes erasure codes to create data availability proofs that guarantee, with high probability, that all that data was posted on-chain
Celestia nodes can scale better because they are no longer required to store and verify every transaction in the block
Aside from improving scalability, Celestia also provides application interoperability

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