Data Availability with Celestia: High-Throughput On-Chain Applications
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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.