The speed with which people have come to understand and appreciate Celestia is amazing.

This includes investors (apropos of the funding announcement) but also developers and the public.

1/ Contrasting how the EVM spread, with how the SVM (Solana VM) is spreading, is indicative of a change in the architectural times of crypto 🧵

Three key benefits

'Don't trust. Verify.'

Blockchain security is built on this principle.

❌ Trust = middlemen, honey pots, systemic risk
✅ Verify = decentralization, security, resiliency

Scaling block production is easy.

Scaling block verification is hard.

Monolithic 'scaling solutions' do the former without the latter, leading to centralization.

Modular blockchains do both, scaling while preserving decentralization.

The pace of development around Celestia is a great example of a simple protocol engendering complex emergent behavior at the edges

We Bain Capital Crypto are thrilled to work with and support the incredible builders in the Celestia ecosystem

At Delphi Ventures we're ecstatic to back Mustafa Al-Bassam 🧱 John Adler | ✨⛽ Nick White ✨ and the entire Celestia team

Celestia decouples execution from data availability and consensus, unlocking true scale and sovereignty for modular blockchains

Our thesis: delphidigital.ventures/blog/dawn-of-a…

I’d go so far as to say the three only compelling baselayer innovations in blockchain are:

1. Bitcoin
2. Ethereum
3. Celestia

I supported Celestia (back since it was called LazyLedger) for one simple, perhaps unintuitive reason. It is the first blockchain I ever saw that’s *simpler* than Bitcoin, rather than more complex.

It is the only blockchain that understands my view on baselayer architecture.