Addressing the fee problem in blockchains with Eric Wall - Ep 2

We sit down with Eric Wall, CIO at Arcane Assets, to discuss all things Celestia, modular blockchains and the future of the L1 landscape with Celestia labs team members Mustafa Al-Bassam, John Adler, Nick White, and Ismail Khoffi. Moderated by Ekram Ahmed. Podcast platforms Spotify Apple Google Timestamps 0:00 Start 1:08 Introduction to Eric Wall 4:34 Brief overview of Celestia 7:27 Changes in the L1 landscape over the last 12 months and predictions for the future 21:52 Cosmos, Celestia, and app-specific chains 27:08 Implication of congestion and fees on Celestia 32:30 Capacity of Celestia and modular blockchains 36:34 Data availability sampling and how it works with light nodes. 46:36 Can the number of sampling nodes in the network be measured? 48:25 Do nodes have to be aware of other nodes that are sampling? 51:24 Celestia’s guarantees for data retrievability 58:39 Value accrual and token abstraction in the modular stack 1:04:19 Can Celestia light nodes govern the block size of execution layers? 1:08:54 Is Polkadot’s relay chain a data availability layer? 1:10:45 Integrating a rollup with Celestia and data availability guarantees 1:16:06 Settlement interoperability and CosmWasm 1:18:40 Security of a modular multi-chain future 1:22:34 Data availability costs and the realizations of separating the data availability layer from execution. 1:24:56 Eric Wall’s thoughts on Celestia 1:27:33 What can Celestia do if usage hits capacity? 1:35:15 Restricting the settlement layer 1:37:35 Ending Social links Eric's twitter Mustafa's twitter John's twitter Nick's twitter Ismail's twitter Ekram's twitter Resources Learn more about Celestia Join the community discord Intro & outro music