Episode 268: A Rollup-Centric Future & Sovereign Chains with Mustafa Al-Bassam
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In this week’s episode Anna Rose) interviews Mustafa Al-Bassam), co-founder of Celestia). They cover where Celestia as an idea emerged from, how its rollup-centric data availability (DA) network works and what can be expected from their upcoming launch. They also chat about how Celestia aims to empower Sovereign chains - independent rollup chains that use Celestia as the DA and consensus layer - and how this Sovereign chain model compares with the Ethereum rollup architecture.

Here are some additional links for this episode:

• Episode 208: Digging into Data Availability with Ismail Khoffi from Celestia)

• A rollup-centric ethereum roadmap)

• Introducing Rollkit: a modular rollup framework)

• My first impressions of web3)

• Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance)

Check out the ZK Jobs Board here: ZK Jobs).

Aleo) is a new Layer-1 blockchain that achieves the programmability of Ethereum, the privacy of Zcash, and the scalability of a rollup.

Interested in building private applications? Check out Aleo’s programming language called Leo by visiting http://developer.aleo.org).

You can also participate in Aleo’s incentivized testnet3 by downloading and running a snarkOS node. No sign-up is necessary to participate.

For questions, join their Discord at aleo.org/discord).

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