We sit down with Eric Wall, CIO at Arcane Assets, to discuss all things Celestia, modular blockchains and the future of the L1 landscape with Celestia labs team members Mustafa Al-Bassam, John Adler, Nick White, and Ismail Khoffi. Moderated by Ekram Ahmed.

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Timestamps

0:00 Start

1:08 Introduction to Eric Wall

4:34 Brief overview of Celestia

7:27 Changes in the L1 landscape over the last 12 months and predictions for the future

21:52 Cosmos, Celestia, and app-specific chains

27:08 Implication of congestion and fees on Celestia

32:30 Capacity of Celestia and modular blockchains

36:34 Data availability sampling and how it works with light nodes.

46:36 Can the number of sampling nodes in the network be measured?

48:25 Do nodes have to be aware of other nodes that are sampling?

51:24 Celestia’s guarantees for data retrievability

58:39 Value accrual and token abstraction in the modular stack

1:04:19 Can Celestia light nodes govern the block size of execution layers?

1:08:54 Is Polkadot’s relay chain a data availability layer?

1:10:45 Integrating a rollup with Celestia and data availability guarantees

1:16:06 Settlement interoperability and CosmWasm

1:18:40 Security of a modular multi-chain future

1:22:34 Data availability costs and the realizations of separating the data availability layer from execution.

1:24:56 Eric Wall’s thoughts on Celestia

1:27:33 What can Celestia do if usage hits capacity?

1:35:15 Restricting the settlement layer

1:37:35 Ending

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