Celestia

• date: 2023-06-19
• last updated: 2023-06-19

Overview

Celestia¹ is a modular consensus and data network, built to enable anyone to easily deploy their own blockchain with minimal overhead.

Cryptographic Primitives

• whitepaper
  • 2.2 Merkle Trees and Sparse Merkle Trees
  • 2.3 Erasure Codes and Reed-Solomon Codes
  • 5 Data Availability Proofs
    • 5.1 Strawman 1D Reed-Solomon Availability Scheme
    • 5.2 2D Reed-Solomon Encoded Merkle Tree Construction
    • 5.3 Random Sampling and Network Block Recovery
    • 5.4 Selective Share Disclosure
    • 5.5 Fraud Proofs of Incorrectly Generated Extended Data
• Celestia App Architecture
• Implementation celestia-app pkg

Namespaced Merkle Tree Wrapper

• code

Appendices

References

• Learn Modular
• Fraud and Data Availability Proofs: Maximising Light Client Security and Scaling Blockchains with Dishonest Majorities
• Celestia App Specifications
• Celestia App Architecture
• Rollkit Docs
• Rollkit Architecture Design Records
• Rollkit Dependency Graph
• Quantum Gravity Bridge

Footnotes