Episode 268: A Rollup-Centric Future & Sovereign Chains with Mustafa Al-Bassam

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. If you like what we do: Find all our links here! @ZeroKnowledge | Linktree Subscribe to our podcast newsletter Follow us on Twitter @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram Catch us on YouTube