Celestia will become an option for data availability within the Polygon CDK software.
The Celestia network will integrate with Polygon’s chain development kit (CDK) sometime “early next year,” according to a Dec. 11 announcement. The integration will provide an “easily-pluggable component” for Polygon-based networks to use Celestia for data availability.
The announcement claimed that transaction fees could be reduced by more than 100 times if networks stored compressed transaction data on Celestia instead of Ethereum. The integration coming in early 2024 will simplify this choice, providing this option within the Polygon CDK software itself.
“This is the broadband moment for Web3,” said Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal. “The ability to launch a high-throughput ZK-powered Ethereum layer 2 as easily as deploying a smart contract will do for blockchain adoption what high-speed fiber did for Web2 applications.”