Starknet Announces Collaboration with Celestia for Enhanced Data Availability

The optimistic period in the cryptocurrency market is leading to significant steps in blockchain ecosystems. Starknet, an Ethereum scaling solution eagerly awaited for its token launch and airdrop events, has announced a partnership with blockchain network Celestia to increase data availability for Layer-3 chains in its ecosystem.

Starknet Team Takes a Notable Step

Starknet developers plan to use Blobstream, an important component of the Celestia ecosystem. Blobstream acts as a data availability (DA) layer, securely storing large amounts of data off-chain and providing verifiable proofs of its existence.

The collaboration aims to minimize transaction costs by enabling off-chain scaling solutions on Starknet to use Celestia. It includes transferring Celestia’s Blobstream solution to Cairo, Starknet’s primary programming language, to support the development of Layer-3 application chains. Such Layer-3 projects on Starknet are currently in the development phase. The Starknet team shared the following statement:

“Deploying highly efficient application chains on Starknet with Celestia as a modular DA is a game-changing combination.”

Celestia and Solution Kits

Celestia stands out as the first project to implement data availability sampling, which allows validators in scaling networks to sample a significant portion of data for availability verification, increasing efficiency and yield compared to full data verification.

Layer-2 projects like Manta Pacific, Aevo, and ZKFair are choosing Celestia’s DA to develop Validiums, scaling solutions that combine zero-knowledge proofs with data availability. Polygon and Arbitrum are also taking significant steps by integrating Celestia into their Layer-2 development kits.

Now, Starknet aims to use Celestia to create Layer-3 chains within the Starknet ecosystem, unlike Layer-2 projects. Previously, Starknet had discussions about integrating a data availability solution for Starknet application chains using Madara, a customizable sequencer, with Celestia’s competitor Avail.