Celestia unveils the project roadmap: the proposal of 1 gigabyte blocks

Celestia, known modular blockchain for rollup data storage, has just unveiled the details of its roadmap, hinting at the arrival of possible 1-gigabyte blocks. We are talking about a huge step forward for the project that would see a significant increase in its productivity capacity.

This translates into an ambitious scaling goal that projects Celestia above the transaction processing capabilities of the electronic payment provider Visa. In parallel, the TIA token, the central resource of the infrastructure, will also face significant challenges on the horizon.

Let’s delve into the topic below.

Celestia looks at scalability in the roadmap: proposed the archiving of 1 gigabyte blocks

Celesia, rete di disponibilità dati L1, ha appena annunciato la propria roadmap stating its intention to expand its block storage capacity to 1 gigabyte. After working on 24 improvement proposals (CIP) and hosting 16 calls among the major code contributors, Celestia has outlined its roadmap.

The developers of the project, while preparing for the “Lemongrass” update that will bring TIA on IBC chains, are working on scalability goals. The ultimate aim is to bring the distribution of high-productivity applications on any Virtual Machine, and not just on Ethereum.

The first major step to expand the scalability of Celestia, as presented in the roadmap, is to increase the size of its blocks. With a capacity of 1 gigabyte, the network would introduce a massive boost in productivity in the management and storage of data for rollups.

It is estimated in particular that with such blocks the processing potential of celestia would be greater than what is currently allowed by Visa. To give you an idea, the electronic payment provider handles about 24,000 transactions per second (TPS).

To achieve this target, Celestia implements a series of technical innovations, including Membrool addressable content, compact blocks, CometBFT block propagation optimization, and internal sharding nodes,

A force of this kind would allow the development of any type of decentralized application that requires the use of external data, unlocking the true potential of the blockchain. As stated by Celestia itself in its blog post:

“This unlocks applications and onchain capabilities previously considered unachievable, such as verifiable Web apps and fully onchain games”.

The roadmap of the project in 3 key points

The roadmap of Celestia, with the project aimed at developing 1 gigabyte blocks, is divided into 3 central workstreams.

The first concerns the goal of resizing the DA throughput, through the creation of an ecosystem with abundant blockspace. To be able to store such large blocks, Celestia requires the optimization of the consensus network to ensure maximum performance.

Then, to open up to a more significant sampling, the modular infrastructure must improve its data availability network. In fact, the platform’s target is to allow the execution of nodes on low-performance devices or on wallets in the background

The second key point of the roadmap concerns the development of a verifiable empty space, where anyone on any device can offer their contribution. Through the so-called “light nodes”, users can directly verify by themselves the correctness of the block space protected by Celestia. This improves their security and reduces dependence on third-party committees or centralized infrastructures. Additionally, it minimizes the need to place trust in external bodies, offering greater guarantees.

The latest focal point of Celestia’s roadmap concerns the removal of friction in block spaces for rollup developers and users. In turn, this target is divided into 3 sub-goals, oriented towards the freedom of resource streaming, the development experience, and data transmission.

Simplifying, to limit friction in the storage and use phase of the block, Celestia aims to improve interoperability between rollup, achieve a pleasant UX experience, and scale data streaming blob. With this roadmap, the modular network has a lot to work on for the future of high-performance dapp development.

 The revolution of blockchain technology is closer than ever.

Celestia doubles its market share in the midst of the competition for data availability (DA) rollup 

While Celestia announces its roadmap, marking the significant goal of creating 1-gigabyte blocks, its infrastructure celebrates notable milestones. According to data provided by Blockworks, Celestia has expanded its market share related to the availability of Ethereum rollup data by 20%. 

In particular, in the last 3 months, it has increased its dominance to 40%, emerging as the dominant infrastructure in the sector niche. At the same time, other parameters have also seen a great boost: the most important concerns the 81% increase in the growth rate of published data.

Then we find the 48% increase in the number of nodes DA, which went from 600 to 890 units. Overall, since its inception, Celestia has surpassed the target of 50 GB of total data published on its blockchain.

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These numbers must, however, be contextualized around the great competition for data availability that is emerging in the crypto space.

Among the major ones, we see EigenDA, which just yesterday entered into a collaboration with the cloud platform Conduit. Thanks to the partnership, it will be able to temporarily increase its block size from 2 megabytes to 16 megabytes. Although this capacity is significantly smaller compared to the forecasted 1 gigabyte of Celestia, it still poses a threat on the horizon for the project.

EigenDA is also trying to reduce operational costs for layer-2 chains by about 8 times, further intensifying the clash. Added to these are Near and Avail, both with strong infrastructures behind them, capable of stealing market shares in DA data management.
Avail in particular uses a different approach from the others as it redefines modularity to a higher level, aiming to eliminate liquidity fragmentation.

In the financial market, the terms “bull” and “bear” are often used to describe market trends. A “bull” market is characterized by rising prices, while a “bear” market is characterized by falling prices. Understanding these terms is crucial for investors.