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Working on Farcaster and Warpcast. Longer thoughts at https://dwr.email

celestia is a blockchain designed to be used purely by rollups

in theory it should allow to launch rollups with very cheap (and secure) fees

eg base could be deployed as an OP Stack rollup but post data to celestia instead of ethereum

closes competitors are EigenDA / Polygon Avail / ETH after 4844 (none is live yet)

good questions

1. none, celestia launched a month ago but i haven't heard of anything deployed on it yet

2. its confusing i guess it is an eth competitor but celestia people really like eth and pretend like its not?

3. no evm, no smart contracts, just blob data for rollups.

What's the most successful roll up using Celestia?

Do people consider Celestia an Ethereum competitor?

Is Celestia POS? How decentralized / secure? Is it EVM or something else?

There is no competition, as there is no working product from anyone besides celestia and in engineering we all know practical execution is much more important than running theoretical numbers.

Kinda like danksharding too I think but uses fraud proofs instead of KZG commitments. Both are designed with light nodes in mind (I’m no expert lol)