Celestia: Launching a blockchain to be as easy as deploying a smart contract
Builders and communities will be capable of deploy their very own sovereign, custom-made blockchains on the “click on of a button” says Celestia co-founder Ismail Khoffi.
Talking with Cointelegraph at Korean Blockchain Week 2022 final week, Khoffi mentioned that the venture’s imaginative and prescient is to decouple the consensus and software execution layers to unlock new potentialities for decentralized app builders. Celesita is principally a stripped again minimalist layer one blockchain that gives customers the infrastructure that makes it simple to deploy their very own blockchain, or layer two rollup.
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“One of many objectives of Celestia is to make deploying your individual blockchain as simple as deploying a wise contract,” he defined, likening the venture to Amazon Net Companies the place “you write your code and click on a button, it’s deployed and folks can begin utilizing it.”
In an identical solution to how the brand new rollup-centric Ethereum imaginative and prescient separates the consensus and information availability layers from the execution layer, Celestia is smodularly-designed however with customizable options which presents customers the liberty to decide on their execution environments:
“In Celestia, there isn’t any such factor as execution on the bottom layer, so it is fully outsourced to a distinct layer. You possibly can have a settlement layer, however as a selected specialised execution layer that solely does settlement on prime of Celestia, however is its personal factor.”
Khoffi added that “communities can [then] select which settlement layer they wish to use, or they will launch their very own settlement layer or launch their very own sovereign roll up”.
Khoffi mentioned that Celestia was launched on the concept that on-line communities need some sense of sovereignty, and that they like “the thought of launching their very own […] blockchain” without having to be “depending on Ethereum’s governance and design decisions”:
“By having your individual sovereign rollout […] you’re not sure to any determination […] you’re extra free within the decisions that you’ve, that you are able to do by yourself chain”.
He mentioned a Decentralized Autonomous Group could want to deploy their very own blockchain, and make the foundations for the way it operates, whereas benefiting from Celestia’s infrastructure and safety.
“It will likely be cheaper, and also you’re […] extra free within the decisions that you’ve, that you are able to do by yourself chain.”
The Celestia Testnet was deployed in Might 2022, and the Celestia Group is planning to launch the Mainnet in 2023. Nonetheless, Khoffi mentioned that there are nonetheless “optimizations to be completed and bugs to be mounted” earlier than the launch. Celestia has not but issued a token however has already attracted loads of hype.
