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Celestia Founder Slams Ethereum with Hyperliquid’s Throughput
In a recent statement, Mustafa Al-Bassam, co-founder of Celestia, has publicly criticized the scalability roadmap outlined by Ethereum. The criticism comes in light of Celestia processing almost one million blocks and 4.5GB of posted data within its first 120 days of operation, surpassing Ethereum’s capabilities without high gas fees.
Al-Bassam took a direct approach to address concerns that using Celestia is equivalent to “shorting ETH” by claiming that the scalability needs of modern apps like Hyperliquid cannot be met by Ethereum’s current roadmap. Notably, even if Ethereum’s full Danksharding plan comes into effect in the distant future, it would still fall short of supporting a tenth of Hyperliquid’s throughput requirements.
In essence, Al-Bassam emphasized Celestia helps actual builders scale their Eth L2s, which do not care about alignment politics. This implies that Celestia provides an alternative infrastructure for scalability needs while Ethereum’s monolithic approach is slow and does not support current scalability demands.
Ethereum’s scalability roadmap primarily focuses on economic alignment and network cohesion by associating transaction execution with the Ethereum consensus layer and token rewards. However, this model has been criticized for being slow compared to innovation and failing to address current scalability requirements.
Recent developments suggest that alternative data availability networks like EigenDA and Avail are emerging as alternatives to Ethereum’s monolithic approach. These competing projects have reached remarkable speeds, such as EigenLayer with 15MB/s on its restaking model and Avail with tested block sizes of up to 128MB.
As the blockchain industry continues to evolve, Celestia’s modular structure has attracted attention from Layer-2 builders seeking faster solutions for their applications.
Source: cryptotale.org
