The Arbitrum Foundation announced that Celestia is the first modular data availability network to be integrated into Arbitrum’s software stacks known as Orbit and Nitro.
The integration, which should be completed after Celestia’s mainnet launch, will give developers the ability to publish data to Celestia alongside the existing Arbitrum One and Nova blockchains.
The move implies that Celestia’s data availability proofs will be incorporated into Arbitrum’s current Layer 2 ecosystem, a leading Layer 2 scaling solution on Ethereum by total value locked that functions as a one-stop solution designed to increase throughput and improve efficiency of Ethereum-based applications. .
The integration with Celestia, a modular consensus and data network, aims to diversify developer tools when it comes to reducing data costs for apps.
Recently, Celestia Labs introduced Blobstream, which has the ability to “stream” or extend Celestia’s data availability layer to Ethereum, providing the data throughput needed for a large number of rollups without sacrificing security for end users.
Data availability refers to the ability of each network member to securely retrieve and confirm stored data off-chain. This becomes crucial because Layer 2 technologies often rely on rollups, or groups of transactions that are executed off-chain and then collectively uploaded to the mainnet as a single entry. In order to authenticate these rollups, it is essential that all participants in the network can access the basic transaction data.
Expanding the availability of arbitrage data
The Arbitrum Foundation has also indicated that Celestia’s Blobstream will be deployed in Arbitrum-based Layer 2s via the Orbit software stack.
“We are excited to welcome Celestia to the Arbitrum ecosystem and make its technology available to Orbit chains,” said Elias Abi Daoud, community leader at the Arbitrum Foundation. “Given the permissionless nature of Orbit technology, we are eager to see the growing range of supported data availability options beyond Ethereum, and we anticipate the growth of a diverse network of developers using this technology.”
Celestia’s integration also marks the first external contribution to the Arbitrum Orbit protocol layer. Celestia is nearing the launch of its mainnet in the coming weeks. Additionally, the Celestia Foundation recently announced an airdrop of 60 million of its native token, called Tia, to 7,579 developers and over half a million on-chain addresses on Ethereum rollups, Cosmos Hub, and Osmosis.