Modular blockchain Celestia has launched a brand new testnet, mamo-1, designed to push the community’s scalability to new extremes forward of future mainnet upgrades.
In keeping with an Apr. 14 announcement on Celestia’s (TIA) weblog, mamo-1 is designed to assist very excessive knowledge throughput, as much as 128MB blocks each six seconds, or 21.33MB per second. That’s greater than 16 occasions greater than what Celestia’s mainnet at present handles. The brand new testnet is supposed to simulate real-world circumstances for apps that have to course of massive quantities of information.
The testnet follows a smaller prototype known as Mammoth Mini, which reached 27MB/s in lab exams. However not like that devnet, mamo-1 is open to the general public and connects with Celestia’s full knowledge availability layer, together with assist for mild nodes and knowledge availability sampling. It’s supported by 21 validators positioned in Amsterdam, Paris, and Warsaw to replicate sensible community conduct.
The improve is powered partly by a brand new knowledge switch protocol known as Vacuum!, which improves how knowledge strikes throughout the community. As an alternative of flooding the community with knowledge, nodes solely ship it to friends who request it. This helps scale back pointless site visitors and makes the system sooner and extra environment friendly.
Vacuum! additionally makes use of one thing known as Validator Availability Certificates, so nodes can announce which knowledge they’re holding. Even when full knowledge isn’t accessible from a single supply, Vacuum! incorporates a new restoration technique that helps validators rebuild lacking components of a block utilizing backup knowledge.
Celestia says this expertise brings them nearer to a future the place the community can deal with 1GB blocks. Since its October 2023 mainnet launch, greater than 20 rollups have deployed on Celestia, together with Eclipse, Motion Labs (MOVE), and Dymension. Nonetheless, competitors from rival knowledge availability networks like EigenDA and Avail may problem its lead.
Even with the brand new testnet, Celestia’s token TIA hasn’t moved a lot. It’s buying and selling at $2.52, down 30% this month and 88% under its $20.85 all-time excessive in February. In keeping with an Apr. 10 Nansen report, developer curiosity within the platform stays fairly excessive regardless of the value drop, elevating conviction of future value restoration.
