In this episode, we sit down with John Adler, Co-founder of Celestia, the first modular consensus and data network to power scalable and secure Web3 applications. We discuss the rise of blockchain modularity, how Celestia solves the data availability problem, plans to bootstrap the Celestia ecosystem, and much more!

Show Notes: 

(00:00:00) – Introduction.

(00:00:46) – Defining Celestia and modular blockchains. 

(00:06:23) – Solving the data availability problem. 

(00:21:44) – Ethereum rollups vs. Celestia rollups. 

(00:28:27) – Why use Celestia? 

(00:39:14) – The importance of decentralization. 

(00:43:20) – The future of VMs / execution environments. 

(00:52:13) – Protecting rollups from spam/DDoS attacks. 

(00:58:39) – Disadvantages of modular blockchains.

(01:03:04) – Managing the load on full nodes. 

(01:11:15) – Cevmos.

Resources: 

• John’s Twitter

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