Launching a blockchain to be as easy as implementing a smart contract

by · August 14, 2022

Developers and communities will be able to deploy their own sovereign, custom blockchains with the “click of a button,” says Celestia founder Ismail Khoffi.

Speaking to Cointelegraph at Korean Blockchain Week 2022 last week, Khoffi said the project’s vision is to decouple the consensus and application execution layers to unlock new opportunities for decentralized app builders. Celesita is basically a minimalist layer one blockchain that offers users the infrastructure that makes it easy to deploy their own blockchain, or layer two rollup.

“One of the goals of Celestia is to make deploying your own blockchain as easy as deploying a smart contract,” he explained, comparing the project to Amazon Web Services where “you write your code and click a button, it’s deployed and people can start using it.”

In a similar way that the new convolution-centric Ethereum vision separates the consensus and data availability layers from the execution layer, Celestia is modularly designed, but with customizable features that give users the freedom to choose execution environments:

“In Celestia, there’s no such thing as execution on the base layer, so it’s completely outsourced to another layer. You can have a settlement team, but as a specific specialized execution team that just does settlement on top of Celestia, but is its own thing.”

Khoffi added that “communities can [then] choose which settlement layer they want to use, or they can launch their own settlement layer or launch their own supreme roll up”.

Khoffi said Celestia was launched on the idea that online communities want a sense of sovereignty and that they like “the idea of ​​launching their own […] blockchain” without having to be “dependent on Ethereum’s governance and design choices”:

“By having your own supreme rollout […] you are not bound to any decision […] you are more free in the choices you have, which you can make on your own chain”.

He said a decentralized autonomous organization might want to deploy its own blockchain, and make the rules for how it works, while taking advantage of Celestia’s infrastructure and security.

“It’s getting cheaper, and you are […] more freedom in the choices you have, which you can make on your own chain.”

The Celestia Testnet was deployed in May 2022, and the Celestia Team plans to launch the Mainnet in 2023. However, Khoffi said there are still “optimizations to be made and bugs to be fixed” before launch. Celestia has yet to issue a token, but has already attracted a lot of hype.