Celestia is a modular blockchain architecture designed for developers and teams building scalable decentralized applications. It fundamentally rethinks blockchain design by separating the consensus and data availability layer from execution, enabling a new paradigm of sovereign and scalable rollups.

• Modular Data Availability: Provides a secure and high-throughput data availability layer, ensuring transaction data is published and accessible. This is the foundation for scalable rollups and validiums.
• Sovereign Rollups: Enables developers to launch their own independent blockchains (sovereign rollups) that post data to Celestia. These chains have full autonomy over their governance, upgradeability, and execution environment.
• Simplified Deployment: Dramatically reduces the complexity of launching a new blockchain. Teams do not need to bootstrap a new consensus network or validator set, focusing instead on their application logic.
• Scalable Execution: By decoupling execution, each rollup or application chain achieves horizontal scalability. This means overall network capacity increases as more rollups are deployed, avoiding the congestion of a single execution layer.
• EVM and CosmWasm Compatibility: Supports the deployment of rollups using familiar virtual machines, including the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and CosmWasm, allowing developers to use existing tools and languages.