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Published on April 02, 2024 16:30 GMT+00:00edited on April 02, 2024 16:34 GMT+00:00

Modular blockchain project Celestia has introduced Blobstream for the Arbitrum ecosystem, enabling developers to create customizable chains (called Orbit) using Celestia for data availability.

Orbit Chains can either be Layer 2 chain that settle directly to Ethereum or as a Layer 3 chains that can settle to Arbitrum’s own Layer 2: Arbitrum One.

The deployment of Blobstream in this context allows L2 and L3 rollups to utilize Celestia light clients for data availability sampling (DAS) — a technique to ensure that data pertaining to transactions and state changes is accessible to all network participants.

This integration will provide Arbitrum’s Orbit chains with the ability to publish data to Celestia in addition to their existing setups, which can be costlier or overly complex for many …