2 posts tagged with "cross-chain"

On-chain apps that handle lots of data (games with frequent moves, social feeds, IoT streams) hit a wall: putting everything on the settlement layer is slow and expensive. Data Availability (DA) layers solve this by providing cheap, high-throughput data posting while settlement stays on Cardano or EVM. EffectStream now supports Celestia as a first-class data availability layer.

Cardano provides strong settlement guarantees, but all state is public. For applications that need private computation (secret ballots, hidden hands, confidential business logic), that's a real limitation. By integrating Midnight's ZK-native design with Cardano, EffectStream applications can have public settlement on Cardano with private state via Midnight's zero-knowledge proofs.