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Mammoths Study The Modular Barbell.
The modular barbell is about splitting the stack into two extreme specializations for better performance and scalability:
🪶Lightweight rollups for execution (flexible, efficient).
🦣Robust base layer for consensus and data availability (secure, immutable).
Here's what I learned. 🧵🦣
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Built using Evolve (@ev_stack) SDK and Celestia for blockspace, @xomarket is a permissionless conviction market protocol where anyone can create a market on any topic, with AI-first resolution and a decentralised jury as fallback.
XO's architectural differentiators enabled by this stack:
- runs its AI oracle, LS-LMSR liquidity engine, and creator fees as native protocol logic
- avoids competing with unrelated activity for blockspace when live events drive spikes in volume
- inherits decentralised security without bootstrapping its own validator set
Today the team announced a $6M seed round led by @20vcFund and @picuscap, with @cbventures, and others. XO has done ~$300M in trading volume since winning Celestia's Mammothon hackathon in 2025.
800K+ collectors, 8M+ NFTs from Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and more are processed by @veve_official, an application on top of @CollectChain, built using the Evolve (@ev_stack) SDK and using Celestia for blockspace.
@CollectChain is a purpose-built chain for licensed digital collectibles, enforcing royalties and licensing rules onchain.
By using @ev_stack for execution and Celestia for blockspace, @CollectChain:
- gets 250ms finality for the transactions it processes,
- retains control over execution, fees and its own upgrade schedule, and
- inherits decentralised security guarantees by posting its block data to Celestia without the unnecessary operational, engineering, or financial bulk of bootstrapping a validator set, among other benefits.
The article below describes an architecture that allows products to spend less time operating network infrastructure, and more time building for its users.
We just wrapped up our team on-site. The entire Celestia team came together for a week of deep work on protocol and strategy.
We are energised, heads down and building towards making Celestia’s Vision 2.0 a reality.
We want to be better at sharing our work openly as it happens. To make sure we follow this through, we’ve brought on a new Head of Marketing who will help us do exactly that.
On a 100 validator network, separating compute from blockspace saves ~$492,000/year in infrastructure costs alone, and that's before counting the engineering time you get back.
@viet_nguyen breaks down the full math on why bundled validator architecture breaks at scale:
Celestia ranks near the top in 30-day development activity growth, a strong activity score (~51).
Rising dev traction usually comes before ecosystem expansion @celestia is clearly one to watch right now. 🚀
Within the next decade, most economic activity will be machine-to-machine. AI agents trading with each other at API speed, making autonomous decisions about data, compute, and services.
And @OnchainDB is one example of how these markets will work:
Celestia Fibre can process ~1.25 BILLION TPS
... nearly 1 TPS for every human on earth
Crypto adoption may be far away from needing these levels of throughput today, but if we're right on where crypto adoption is going over the next decade, we'll need this and much more.
We want to bring every existing market onchain - spot and derivative exchanges, adspace markets, prediction markets. We want to scale internet native micropayments for content crawling, agentic commerce, onchain data markets. The sky is the limit.
What excites me most about Fibre in the near term is that once we ship it to mainnet, we can set our sights on improving the product in new dimensions outside of throughput. Scaling was one of the first problems to solve to make blockchain viable for global adoption, but it's far from the last. More to come on this soon.
Welcome to the post-throughput era of crypto
Thanks to new cryptography, we developed a DA product that hit 1Terabit/s in blockspace throughput. This enables new kinds of onchain markets that weren't possible before, not just crypto trading. 1 tps for every human on earth.
Don’t miss this.
@celestia, @bulletxyz and @sovereign_labs partnering up:
> This wasn’t possible two years ago
> Next gen, app specific, custom-built rollups are coming
> We need 5k–10k TPS and multiple MB/s of bandwidth
$TIA is built for what’s next
Onchain Nasdaq.
Watch:
@degenbross Locked in 2025, stepped away from distractions for a bit.
Quite a year, but really strong on the other side.
Hope fellow Mammoths locked in this year.
2026 incoming 🦣