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“The difference between a dream and a goal is a plan.” Celestia’s roadmap turns the vision of 1GB blocks, 1B light nodes, and 1M rollups from a dream into a tangible goal. A goal that the community will be working towards relentlessly for years to come. Here’s what you should know 👇 — Celestia’s roadmap is organized around 3 core principles. Scale: Celestia is laser focused on 1GB blocks • We believe that removing the constraints of DA throughput will open new frontiers for what is possible to do onchain. We can scale up existing crypto apps like payments and DeFi, make altVM L2s like Eclipse that push execution performance beyond what’s possible on L1, and even deploy web2 apps or AI models onchain. • Without execution or state, Celestia has the ability to scale far beyond high-performance monolithic chains. The goal is to be able to support many visa-scale and Solana-scale networks, all within one underlying protocol and security network. Verifiability: light node security and distribution is key • Blockchains are tools for trust-minimization. When users can’t verify the applications they are using and have to rely on an RPC to interact with the chain, trust-minimization goes down the drain. This is the state of most chains today. • An entire track of the Celestia roadmap is dedicated to solving this problem by making light nodes as trust-minimized AND as accessible to users as possible. We will reduce hardware requirements, cut down sync times, and make the software easy to embed in wallets and UIs. This way anyone, anywhere can be a first class citizen of the network. Frictionless devEX and UX: we must solve modular fragmentation • The big question on everyone’s mind is how can we make devEx and UX for modular applications as seamless as their counterparts on monolithic chains. After all, developers and users are LAZY. The primary solutions to this problem exist outside of Celestia in the realm of chain abstraction, but features like ZK accounts can complement them to help solve fragmentation without adding state and execution to Celestia. More to come on this. • And of course, Celestia will continue to provide offchain DA to the Ethereum ecosystem and look to expand support to the growing L2 ecosystems on Bitcoin, Solana and Mina via Blobstream. See the roadmap blog post for more details 👉 blog.celestia.org/roadmap/ — How will we actually achieve all this? The roadmap contains the specific engineering milestones required to reach these ambitious goals the community has set for itself. Some have already been shipped, others are coming soon in the Lemongrass upgrade, and others are somewhere in the pipeline from research, to design, to implementation and testing. Learn more and get involved If you're wondering what exactly each of these milestones like node sharding, shwap, or ZK accounts are, check out the glossary here 👉 forum.celestia.org/t/celesti… If you want to participate in Celestia’s development and get involved in the CIP process here’s how 👉 github.com/celestiaorg/CIPs/… A big THANK YOU to the community This roadmap is the culmination of 10 months worth of core developer calls, community working groups, and 24 CIPs. Thank you to everyone who’s been part of these discussions. Thank you to the 20 rollup teams who deployed on mainnet and to all the Celestia ecosystem projects who have taken the risk of building on the first modular DA layer and given valuable feedback. Your input has shaped Celestia into what it is today and what it will become. Thank you to everyone out there running light nodes. Thanks for believing that we can make blockchains trust-minimized again. Onward.