Celestia’s v6 upgrade, Matcha 🍵, is now live on Arabica testnet. Matcha, the biggest upgrade yet, enables scaling to 128MB blocks and cuts inflation by 50%.

XO Market Mainnet Beta is live! β We’re shipping our biggest upgrade yet - User-generated prediction markets. - USDC deposits - Multi-outcome markets - Refreshed UI/UX - 2 CP for every 1 USDC traded - 1 CP for every 1 USDC deposited - 0% protocol fees

Something very special is starting on Forma next week... Wanderer - a new blockchain artwork by @JanRobertLeegte 👣 Online, onchain, and in person at @ParisPhotoFair with @office_impart Stay tuned 👀

Yesterday in Paris, we celebrated the recent launch of the Bitwise Celestia Staking ETP together with @musalbas and his team at @celestia labs. Thank you to @euronext Paris for the warm welcome and a fantastic event. Exciting times ahead for blockchain innovation.

Celestia launched exactly 2 years ago. Here’s some of what we've been able to accomplish so far: • Supported the launch of 30+ chains • Increased our TVS to $2.53B • Sold 3TB+ of blockspace • Sustained 40% quarterly DA demand growth through 2025 • Scaled our throughput 128x (from 0.17MB/s to 21MB/s in Matcha) • Reduced our blocktimes 50% (12s to 6s) • Reduced issuance 70% (from 8% to 2.5% in Matcha) • Added bridging support for TIA and arbitrary assets Honestly I never would have imagined we'd be here 5 years ago when Celestia was nothing more than a whitepaper and telegram chat of 100 people. But while I'm proud of how far we've come, we still have a long way to go. Celestia is still a nascent technology and ecosystem. We have a lot more growing to do if we want to meet the demands of where the industry will go over the next decade. I won't be satisfied until Celestia is processing millions of transactions per second and securing trillions of dollars in value. To this end, we have an ambitious roadmap going into the end of the year and into early next year with some major changes coming to the protocol and our ecosystem. While I can't share everything, just know that Celestia is going to look radically different one year from now. On the ecosystem front we are seeing recent pickup in onchain CLOB DEXs. The 2ms latency and 200k+ TPS that a rollup architecture on Celestia can clock is a quantum leap in capability for onchain trading venues. Decentralized Nasdaq is within reach. We have 4+ new CLOBs launching by Q1, which we anticipate will drive new levels of transaction volume through Celestia and has a chance of demonstrating the revenue potential of the protocol. This combined with reduced inflation from proof of governance presents the possibility of making TIA net deflationary in 2026. Anyways enough yapping, back to building. We’ve got work to do.

2 years in, @celestia moved from "build whatever" to clear product market fit in high performance onchain trading. only stack combining ~2 ms rollup latency, ~6 s finality, ~200k TPS DA bandwidth, privacy and permissionless exits. exactly what low latency venues need teams shipping on this stack: • @hibachi_xyz sub millisecond matching on private DA with encrypted state and zk verified updates • @etherealdex EVM appchain with Arbitrum execution and Celestia DA, USDe native perps live • @xodotmarket sovereign appchain using Celestia for DA • @Trade_VEX scaling spot with every trade generating proofs and storing them on Celestia • @rise_chain pushing low latency execution with claims of sub second finality and high TPS and more... Order of operations mattered. @celestia did DAS and economic security first, then kept turning the performance knob. ZK moves into the state machine next which brings faster multichain deposits and a UX that makes onchain feel invisible. net: if you care about the lowest latency venues with real guarantees, the road keeps leading to @celestia

.@celestia took the "develop the difficult security properties" first approach meaning DAS + economic security first rather than hand waiving that for later. Was that the most optimal decision? idk, but it forced the team to develop expertise in providing genuine guarantees while pushing performance. Looking forward to pushing the state of the art for both performance and security guarantees to deranged amounts.

The age of centralized exchanges is ending, not because of regulation or slogans, but because trust (or rather trustlessness) finally caught up. For years, speed lived in private data centers and trust lived on-chain. That split is obsolete at 1 GB/s (128MB/s live on testnet) data availability throughput. Celestia turned DA into a utility-grade substrate. VEX (@Trade_VEX) is built with Celestia underneath. A high-performance exchange needs to stream verifiable state as fast as it trades. That means proofs of execution and solvency are part of the live path, not a daily proof of reserves, not a weekly or monthly PDF. The limiting factor is data availability. Celestia’s modular DA layer gives us the headroom to make every critical event public and auditable in real time, while keeping user experience tight. Fiat on-ramps will remain the only offline component. Everything else moves on-chain. Matching, settlement, liquidation, proof bulletin, and market data can live transparently on a verifiable substrate. When DA throughput reaches this level, the “CEX vs DEX” tradeoff stops making sense. On the other side of this is the team. Celestia ships, listens, and iterates. Feedback from builders turns into changes in the stack on short timelines. Support has been the best we have seen in any ecosystem, and the engineering is pragmatic and reliable. It feels like building with a partner, not just building on a protocol. Celestia is more than a modular blockchain. It is the quiet backbone for high-performance, verifiable markets. @Trade_VEX uses it to keep the engine honest at line rate. Centralized exchanges were a bridge. The future execution layer is trustless and decentralized with Celestia underneath. Congrats @celestia on two years of mainnet. Now on to the next run.

Celestia, the one which possesses the rare combination of speed and scale Bullet x Celestia, a match made in heaven.

"build whatever" became -> real financial apps uniquely enabled by celestia's customization + scale & speed these kinda apps arent possible on Ethereum rollups like Base (lack scale + speed) or even eigenDA's megaeth (lack customizability), its nice to see the shift

Glad to see the Celestia heads down shipping and continuing to innovate on their mainnet roadmap. More DA bandwidth will continue to accelerate the throughput of CLOBs on blobs 🦣

Building @etherealdex on top of @Celestia was one of the easiest design decisions for us. I'd been following the progress Mustafa and team were making for years already and it was clear to me that: 1) Celestia was the only product that was going to be able to provide both the scale and decentralization properties we were looking for, and 2) the Celestia team are some of the most talented and forward-thinking builders in the space. Excited to share more of what we've been cooking with them soon

The Celestia crew have been clutch in helping us build the private DA stack behind Hibachi’s CLOB. Our goal is a sub-millisecond trading engine with institutional-grade privacy and permissionless exits, and their work has been key to making our ambition possible. The next few upgrades take us closer to that goal and bring zk verification into the state machine, enabling super fast multi-chain deposits. It’s the kind of UX that makes on-chain feel invisible. Hibachio

This is why we picked Celestia early. Conviction markets need speed + scale, not excuses. Celestia gives us both.

Today is the second anniversary of Celestia's mainnet. Two years' worth of iterations, learnings, ups and downs, and thousands upon thousands of Git commits. When you're building something new, you can get some things right, but you also get a lot wrong. We certainly did. I've been working on Celestia for 6 years, and have been in crypto for 15 years. I've seen the industry evolve and mature over time, from the early cypherpunk days in 2010, to the ICO craze in 2017 where everyone believed that Web3 will entirely replace Web2 and we're going to put everything on chain, to today: a more matured perspective on where blockchains actually have product-market fit. Similarly, Celestia also launched with a "build whatever" mindset, trying to be something to everyone, without a clear focus on what kind of chains people were actually going to build on Celestia's high throughput. We burned many cycles going down unproductive rabbit holes. But taking this approach led us somewhere more powerful than we could've planned: we found a hot spot of product activity. Over the past year, numerous high-performance onchain trading products have begun choosing Celestia. Why? Today, Celestia is the *only* way to ship the lowest latency onchain trading venues by any metric. You get: • 2ms latency with rollup frameworks like Sovereign SDK, • 6 second finality on Celestia (100x faster than other rollup base layers), and • ~200k TPS worth of bandwidth. Celestia is the only product that offers this combination, with projects like Bullet, Hibachi, VEX, RISE, Ethereal, and XO Market already pioneering this frontier with Celestia underneath. And while building around the needs of these projects... we now have a short-cut for doubling down in this direction :) More soon.

32MB blocks now live on Mocha testnet. Celestia’s next throughput increase post-Matcha, paving the way to 128MB blocks for apps that demand high bandwidth.

Had a blast recording the first episode of Finality with my Berlin buddy @braveryandglory 🧱 Walked away with a much clearer view on $TIA and the ecosystem’s long-term game plan 👀

General purpose chains like Solana are like minivans - great all around cars but not ideal if you want to go fast or go offroad To go fast you need a different engine and body To go offroad you need more clearance and different tires In order to master new use cases for cars, you need the ability to specialize and customize. The same applies to crypto apps That's why Celestia was designed to enable extreme specialization So you can specialize your application stack and not be stuck in a minivan for the rest of your life

Ethereal Mainnet Alpha is live with USDe-native perps⚡️ Trade perps on the protocol building a complete financial ecosystem around USDe. Soon with Celestia underneath. Performance is why trading venues choose Celestia.

Celestia is finding its niche with CLOB DEXs like Ethereal which need the extreme speed and specialization of a single sequencer rollup on top of a decentralized L1 like Celestia Bullish on their vision for baking USDe rewards natively into perps Coming soon to Celestia

Flexed my @payy_link card today while purchasing my favorite fish burrito Spending stables irl, fully private, soon with Celestia underneath feelsgoodman