Celestia and modular blockchains
Taking a blockchain apart into separate functions, then reassembling it differently.
The track that challenges the other four's implicit assumption: that execution, settlement, consensus and data availability must live in one protocol.
It runs from the theoretical data-withholding problem through to a sovereign rollup deployed, operated and rebuilt by a third party from published data alone.
The most theoretical track at the start and the most radically practical at the end.
- workshops
- 20
- taught hours
- 69
- Track lead
- Modular Blockchain / Celestia Architect
Modules
Modularity and data availability
The modular thesis, the withholding problem, sampling and namespaced trees.
Operating and consuming the data layer
Light nodes, full nodes, blob publication and retrieval.
Building a sovereign rollup
Architectures, sovereignty, execution, publication and fork choice.
Proofs, operations and security
Fraud proofs, the sequencer, costs, monitoring, review and connection to the wider world.
Capstone
A deployed sovereign rollup
Deliver a rollup whose state rebuilds entirely from the availability layer, with no data handed over directly.
- 01State reconstruction by the panel from the data layer alone
- 02Convergence demonstrated between two teams' nodes
- 03A defended operating cost model
The other tracks
FOUND
Foundation
20 workshops
DOT
Polkadot
12 workshops
SUB
Substrate / Polkadot SDK
18 workshops
COSMOS
Cosmos SDK
25 workshops
AVAX
Avalanche
20 workshops
XCHAIN
Interoperable systems engineering
15 workshops
SEC
Blockchain security
15 workshops
OPS
Blockchain infrastructure and DevOps
15 workshops
ARCH
Blockchain architecture
10 workshops