one of the principles we cared most about while building snapsvault was keeping it simple for everyone, operators and providers alike.
listing your snapshots takes one feed and one pull request, and the guide has a ready prompt if you'd rather let an ai agent set it up: https://t.co/zAkAWFRbSb
but the coolest part is on the other side. getting a snapshot takes just one command in your terminal, and that's snapsos cli in interactive mode.
run it on your server and it walks you through the rest:
1. pick a chain and a snapshot type
2. compare the latest snapshots from every provider
3. download the one you need
4. get the sha256 checked automatically
here's a quick look at it in practice, getting a @celestia mocha-5 snapshot ⤵️
Modularium is moving to Ethereum as Forma winds down, and we’re bringing a major platform upgrade with it.
Here’s what’s coming:
• Publishing open to everyone
Any artist can create and publish collections on their own contract, without team approval.
• Self-serve drops
Launch free or paid mints, open or limited editions, scheduled releases, and allowlists.
• Generative art
Upload your code so every mint creates a unique piece, with templates and previews to help you get started.
• Gallery NFTs
Include multiple images in a single NFT, each with its own title.
• Custom mint requirements
Create holders-only drops, burn-to-redeem experiences, and mints that require locking or paying with another token.
• More creator controls
Add collaborators, manage permissions, and permanently lock metadata or royalties when you’re ready.
• Better discovery
Find collections that are minting now, launching soon, or available for sale, with prices and countdowns.
• Upgraded profiles and notifications
Customize your profile, showcase your creations and drops, and get notified about offers and sales.
We’re giving Modularium a new home on Ethereum and opening its tools to more artists.
More migration details to come.
Introducing SnapsVault, an open snapshot marketplace for node operators
Every snapshot from every provider in one place and one format, ready to compare and verify before you download.
Now live for @celestia, with 8 contributors providing snapshots for mainnet and testnets.
https://t.co/h1bTjH6Hdb
21 million payments a second, with execution running on a single CPU core. That's the first full benchmark of Voyager, a new payments architecture from @Celestia
It's built for AI agents, which create a new kind of demand - they pay per request, for every API call, page or piece of data. Those payments are tiny, need to clear instantly and come in huge volumes. Card rails weren't designed for that, with ~30-cent fees, 1-3 second confirmations and Visa at ~65k TPS.
What makes it fast:
- Signature checks run on separate ingress machines, so verification scales by adding hardware
- Stages work on different batches in parallel through an LMAX-style ring buffer, and the executor prefetches the state it needs
- No VM and no Merkle tree: transfer logic is native and balances live in a flat table
In the benchmark, Celestia Labs ran one Voyager node for 5 hours on random transfers between 100 million accounts. About 400 billion transfers went through at 21.2M TPS on average, peaking at 21.6M, with memory flat at 48 GB. The average sitting that close to the peak means throughput held steady for the whole run, and memory didn't grow with load.
There are no state roots or replication yet, so this is a ceiling for execution rather than a live network figure. As a starting point, it's well past anything payments run on today.
Every transaction is published to Fibre. During the run, the publisher moved ~4.8 GB/s, about 32x Fibre's 150 MB/s launch setting. Voyager chains pay for that blockspace in TIA, so payment volume on Voyager turns directly into Fibre usage. It's the first workload that would push Fibre well past its launch capacity.
Voyager is also the first product to come out of the Sovereign Labs (@sovereignxyz) acquisition in July. With Fibre only recently live on mainnet, Celestia now pairs its DA layer with an execution design built to fill it.
It's a big step toward Celestia's goal of bringing every market onchain and powering agentic payments, with rails built for the scale agents need. We're keen to see how quickly Voyager moves toward production.
Fibre is live on @Celestia mainnet, and the more interesting part is the encoding underneath
ZODA, the new data encoding scheme behind Fibre, processes data 881x faster than KZG-based designs. Because of that speedup, Fibre launches at 150 MB/s, which is roughly 800k TPS and 15x Celestia's previous capacity.
The same protocol has been benchmarked at 3 Tb/s. So the launch figure is a starting setting, and capacity can be raised as usage grows without redesigning the protocol.
Two years of research went into this release. We're glad to keep validating Celestia through it 🟣
time to put your $esp airdrop to work. stake with denodes within 14 days to stay eligible for boosted rewards (up to 420% over time) and help secure @espressosys mainnet ☕️
https://t.co/njULRB12W3
ESP is live, and deNodes is supporting @EspressoSys as a validator, bringing security-first infrastructure to HotShot Proof-of-Stake
Espresso is building a purpose-built base layer for rollups, optimized for fast finality and credible, permissionless security. ESP is the utility token that secures the network through staking, aligning validators, delegators, and builders around resilient consensus and long-term participation.
Tokenomics start with a 3.59B initial supply, with 10% allocated to the community airdrop and fully unlocked at launch. Espresso's staking rewards follow an Ethereum-inspired model, with no fixed maximum supply due to inflationary staking rewards.
Espresso also prioritized distribution quality, not just distribution size. Eligibility spans about 40 paths, includes comprehensive anti-Sybil defenses, and introduces a Holder Score to reward long-term conviction over short-term extraction.
To accelerate decentralization from day one, @EspressoFNDN is funding Boosted Rewards for airdrop recipients. The goal is simple: encourage early delegation, keep stake active, and reward participants who commit to securing the network through the first years of mainnet.
If you are eligible, delegate your claimed airdrop allocation within 14 days of claiming to remain eligible for boosted rewards. Keep your stake active and you can unlock up to a 420% boost over time, with milestones at 3 months, 1 year, and 2 years.
Now it's time to stake your ESP and support the network. Delegate to deNodes on the official staking dashboard: https://t.co/VIDOJ6eOnB
We are here for mainnet, and we are here for the long run. Composability is here ☕️
ESP is live, and deNodes is supporting @EspressoSys as a validator, bringing security-first infrastructure to HotShot Proof-of-Stake
Espresso is building a purpose-built base layer for rollups, optimized for fast finality and credible, permissionless security. ESP is the utility token that secures the network through staking, aligning validators, delegators, and builders around resilient consensus and long-term participation.
Tokenomics start with a 3.59B initial supply, with 10% allocated to the community airdrop and fully unlocked at launch. Espresso's staking rewards follow an Ethereum-inspired model, with no fixed maximum supply due to inflationary staking rewards.
Espresso also prioritized distribution quality, not just distribution size. Eligibility spans about 40 paths, includes comprehensive anti-Sybil defenses, and introduces a Holder Score to reward long-term conviction over short-term extraction.
To accelerate decentralization from day one, @EspressoFNDN is funding Boosted Rewards for airdrop recipients. The goal is simple: encourage early delegation, keep stake active, and reward participants who commit to securing the network through the first years of mainnet.
If you are eligible, delegate your claimed airdrop allocation within 14 days of claiming to remain eligible for boosted rewards. Keep your stake active and you can unlock up to a 420% boost over time, with milestones at 3 months, 1 year, and 2 years.
Now it's time to stake your ESP and support the network. Delegate to deNodes on the official staking dashboard: https://t.co/VIDOJ6eOnB
We are here for mainnet, and we are here for the long run. Composability is here ☕️
Introducing TIP-20: Tempo's native token standard, designed for stablecoins and payments use cases.
Rolling out on infrastructure partners including AllUnity (@AllUnityStable), Bridge (@Stablecoin), LayerZero (@LayerZero_Core), and more soon.
Learn more:
https://t.co/tdgpeG3vnO
Given strong initial interest, the pre-allocation cap for Cascade’s Liquidity Strategy (CLS) will be raised to $2M on Tuesday, Jan 6th at 12pm ET.
This is the next opportunity for eligible users to earn Cascade rewards ahead of trading going live.
Monad mainnet is live, and we are supporting @monad as genesis validators, bringing security-first infrastructure to a high-performance, EVM-compatible L1.
Monad pipelines consensus and execution to unlock low-latency, parallelized blockspace, so builders can finally ship apps that did not fit on L1 before while staying in the EVM tooling they already know.
Dozens of DeFi, infra, and gaming apps are already spinning up on Monad mainnet, giving users real products to explore from day one and setting the stage for a new wave of high-performance onchain experiences: https://t.co/0cEbhE1sWJ
Staying true to its decentralization principles, Monad is secured by 170+ active validators across the globe, helping distribute stake and reduce single-operator risk.
If you're looking to stake $MON and support the network, check out the staking dashboard on https://t.co/I8J5MKf89d and choose a validator that matches your priorities for performance, decentralization, and reliability.
At launch, only unlocked MON (sale, airdrop, ecosystem allocations) can be delegated - locked team and investor tokens are not stakeable, so early rewards flow directly to the community and active validators.
Happy MONday 🔮
The @Linera_io Testnet Conway is live as of today! ⛓️
This latest testnet brings Linera closer to mainnet with a microchains-based blockchain designed for real-time operations on the agentic web, featuring 200ms block finalization and sub-second total latency.
A key improvement is Linera's debut GUI wallet support, expanding beyond CLI-only access, powered by @dynamic_xyz with compatibility for MetaMask, Phantom, and Coinbase.
The testnet also includes a live Game of Life app where users can set up patterns, monitor real-time updates, and earn points on a leaderboard through quest completion.
Developers can use SDK 0.15, which offers updated event functions and an enhanced sparse-client faucet. The Linera team is working on EVM compatibility testing on main and a lightweight indexer for explorer support.
Check out the Portal App to connect your wallet, play the game, and explore the Conway features: https://t.co/TlN19wHhll
The new era of real-time apps is coming, and it's powered by microchains. Stay tuned!