Why it matters: P2P message dissemination is best-effort, with no hard guarantees data reaches every node. A DA layer offers the same function with cryptographic commitments and BFT guarantees, once two-thirds of validators sign off, the data is guaranteed retrievable.
This was only feasible after Celestia's Fibre upgrade brought the throughput (up to 1 Tb/s) and low per-blob fees needed to support P2P-scale message volume.
Pretty cool to see Celestia unlocking a new use case for Midnight, a team I really respect.
I see this at not only an exciting new frontier for DA, but also a potential wedge for Celestia to expand it's TAM dramatically over the long run.
TL;DR Midnight uses Celestia DA as a substitute for a P2P network to publish and match trades in a privacy preserving way.
What's nice about this is:
1. Midnight saved a bunch of effort they would have had to spend building a P2P networking stack
2. DA gives stronger guarantees than traditional gossip over a P2P network would
It takes a really smart team like Midnight to identify this new use case for DA and harness it, but now that it's been done I expect other teams will follow suit.
In the long run, Celestia could serve as a kind of layer 0 (overloaded term I know) as the message publishing network underneath many chains. This doesn't stop at just messaging within a particular chain, it could extend to cross-chain messaging replacing relayers, and eventually chains being able to prove things about their state to other chains (i.e. trust-minimized interop, the holy grail that has always been Celestia's ultimate goal).
It's worth mentioning that this kind of application wouldn't be possible without the recent advance in DA called Fibre (s/o @angeris and @alexhevans) making DA fast, abundant and cheap enough for this to be practical.
It has been a pleasure working with the Midnight team on this. If you're interested in building using Celestia in this way, please reach out.
1/ Midnight 🤝 @celestia
Private markets have a discovery problem: how do you make an offer discoverable while keeping the parties involved and unrelated balance information private?
Zswap enables privacy-preserving atomic swaps, while Celestia provides the shared layer for offer discovery. 👇
New case study: Midnight Network is using Celestia's data availability layer as a replacement for peer-to-peer networking, not just for storage.
The result for Midnight was shared liquidity by default. Every Zswap offer lands in the same namespace, readable by any wallet or app. New venues launch with day-one liquidity instead of bootstrapping traders individually, and privacy is preserved throughout via Zswap's confidentiality guarantee.
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July was a busy month in the Celestia ecosystem. Here are some highlights:
• Celestia Labs acquired Sovereign Labs to become a full E2E custom blockchain partner
• V9 went live on Mainnet decreasing blocktimes from 6s to 3s
• Data posted was up 133% from January to June, pushing Celestia’s DA share to 52%
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Today we are proud to announce that Celestia Labs has acquired Sovereign Labs.
This acquisition establishes Celestia Labs as a full-stack custom blockchain development partner for companies building onchain, marking a new chapter for our go-to-market strategy and ambitions.
I find it truly inspiring what Mustafa and team are doing here and what has been achieved so early on. I think this certainly points into the right direction for Celestia:
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