A state-breaking improvement requires a breaking network upgrade. 

The Lemongrass network upgrade hit the waves as the first consensus layer since Celestia's Mainnet Beta genesis block. Following a recent $100 Million raise, @CelestiaOrg continues to scale the modular architecture with its 1GB blocks for unstoppable applications. 

Celestia pulls a high-impact data throughput to the ecosystem, reinstating the developer mantra to build whatever. 

It is no longer farfetched, Celestia is positioned to drive the next wave of dApps and services. It never stepped out of the DA spotlight from Mainnet Beta which launched a year ago, and its roadmap demonstrates this commitment to keep scaling. 

The problems

1. Single consensus mechanism
2. Data accumulation limits scalability

These are gross hindrances to growing a flexible development team and Celestia solves these problems. It’s already positioned on a stretch band, never weighed back by data accumulation. With the road to 1GB blocks, large amounts of data posit no slow speed nor increasing cost implications. State bloats have already been sheared from underneath. 

Key takeaway from Celestia 

1. Exponential growth
2. Adoption
3. Data Market share
4. Roadmap Overview 
5. 1GB Blocks
6. Lemongrass upgrade

Exponential growth

Celenium stats show 20 rollup chains are already live on Celestia. From the @celenium_io reports, Eclipse has a total blob count share of ~94%, demonstrating a 9:1 share ratio to the other rollups.

Adoption

Celestia data blobs account for a good portion of rollup data (~50%) in market share. This number is positioned to go higher from the charts. As such, the demand for its data blobs will continue increasing. Strongly fueled by a wide support of various applications including gaming, the rollup data is prepared for future launches and executions.

Data posted to Blobs

Celenium records ~104.22 GB size of posted blobs. Rollups deployed on Celestia have occupied the highest market dominance in terms of data blobs posted to the network. A great indicator for massive scalability.

Roadmap Overview

The 1GB roadmap vision is captured under 3 mainstreams: Increased Blockspace, Verifiability, and Friction-free Blockspace. Celestia is optimizing its consensus and data availability networks to produce larger blocks, increase throughput, and make running nodes more accessible to users with various device capabilities. With the content addressable mempool, improved data availability sampling, and other innovations, Celestia retains its position as a reliable DA layer.

Users can independently verify blockspace on any device, ensuring enhanced security and reducing reliance on third-party verification. The three-track model for attaining a frictionless blockspace addresses fragmentation, improves developer experience, and supports more blobstream scaling.

Why the 1GB blocks 

The roadmap shows Celestia’s undaunting scale to 1GB blocks. This tremendous hit raises questions about block utility considering the fillup space in the data domain. However, this might just be another pre-launch feeling that may have existed with every project before a mainnet. With a solid advising team at Celestia and diverse core developers, the 1GB scaling is positioned ahead of the adoption curve.

To delve deeper into Celestia's roadmap to 1GB, here is a great pod covering entirely the whole vision towards that.

Celestia is not rigid to execution alone. There is an internal flexibility and flair to scale existing chains, as the DeFi space is in a non-linear race to encourage adoption. The 1GB blocks roadmap is simply a steady positioning of Celestia a little above this curve.

Lemongrass; First mainnet upgrade. 

The ecosystem growth is never isolated from developers. As the Celestia core developer community anticipates the future of the network, a series of Celestia Improvement Protocols (CIPs) are being drafted to introduce new features and enhance existing functionalities, with Lemongrass upgrade as a pioneer in this roadmap.

Notable features of the Lemongrass upgrade. A community-centric upgrade never goes wrong. 

These are notable features of the Lemongrass upgrade:

1. Packet forward middleware (PFM): IBC protocol extension that works around lazybridging, allowing data exchange, multiple blockchains via one transaction, and flexibility for path unwinding.
2. Interchain accounts: ICA enhances interoperability by allowing one chain to manage accounts on another, enabling features like liquid staking.
3. Coordinated network upgrades: An in-protocolling signaling for future upgrades while minimizing any downtimes during the transition. Stay positioned for Celestia’s faster and simpler future upgrades.
4. Reduce state storage and maintenance: The Blobstream module is a celestia-app-specific state machine module. Disabling it in the Lemongrass upgrade eliminates a feature no longer in use, thereby reducing state storage.
5. Minimum gas price on every transaction: Enforcement of a minimum fee ensures that every recorded value goes to those that provided such value. This encourages network efficiency.

These primary consensus layer changes present a simpler architecture for all Ethereum L2s and settlement layers that want to benefit from Blobstream and Celestia DA for cheaper transactions. A huge raise after community core objectives went live? Probably nothing. Celestia’s rollup ecosystem is witnessing a progressive increase in data throughput by its scale to 1-gigabyte blocks, and we are just starting. Celestia is full stack customizability.

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