“Celestia’s mainnet beta launch marks the arrival of the first live modular data availability network with data availability sampling (DAS),” said Ekram Ahmed, a spokesperson at the Celestia Foundation. “The industry has now entered a new, modular era with new values, defined by verifiability, abundant block space and collaborative blockchains. Celestia mainnet is a giant leap in our mission to make deploying chains as easy as smart contracts.”