A Rollup-Centric Future & Sovereign Chains with Mustafa Al-Bassam

In this week’s episode https://twitter.com/annarrose (Anna Rose) interviews https://twitter.com/musalbas (Mustafa Al-Bassam), co-founder of https://celestia.org/ (Celestia). They cover where Celestia as an idea emerged from, how its rollup-centric data availability (DA) network works and what can be expected from their upcoming launch. They also chat about how Celestia aims to empower Sovereign chains - independent rollup chains that use Celestia as the DA and consensus layer - and how this Sovereign chain model compares with the Ethereum rollup architecture. Here are some additional links for this episode: https://zeroknowledge.fm/208-2/ (Episode 208: Digging into Data Availability with Ismail Khoffi from Celestia) https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/a-rollup-centric-ethereum-roadmap/4698 (A rollup-centric ethereum roadmap) https://blog.celestia.org/introducing-rollkit-a-modular-rollup-framework/ (Introducing Rollkit: a modular rollup framework) https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html (My first impressions of web3) https://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/osdi99.pdf (Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance) Check out the ZK Jobs Board here: https://jobsboard.zeroknowledge.fm/ (ZK Jobs). https://www.aleo.org/ (Aleo) is a new Layer-1 blockchain that achieves the programmability of Ethereum, the privacy of Zcash, and the scalability of a rollup. Interested in building private applications? Check out Aleo’s programming language called Leo by visiting https://developer.aleo.org/getting_started/ (http://developer.aleo.org). You can also participate in Aleo’s incentivized testnet3 by downloading and running a snarkOS node. No sign-up is necessary to participate. For questions, join their Discord at https://discord.com/invite/aleohq (aleo.org/discord). If you like what we do: Find all our links here! https://linktr.ee/zeroknowledge (@ZeroKnowledge | Linktree) Subscribe to our https://zeroknowledge.substack.com (podcast newsletter) Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm (@zeroknowledgefm) Join us on https://zeroknowledge.fm/telegram (Telegram) Catch us on https://zeroknowledge.fm/ (YouTube)