Celestia launches high-speed mamo-1 testnet with 128MB blocks

The Celestia modular blockchain launched a new testnet, Mamo-1, designed to push the scalability of the network to new extremes before future Mainnet upgrades.

According to an April 14 announcement On Celestia (Tia) Blog, Mamo-1 is designed to support a very high data flow, up to 128 MB every six seconds, or 21.33 MB per second. This is more than 16 times higher than the main maint of Celestia currently manages. The new testnet is intended to simulate real conditions for applications that must process large amounts of data.

The testnet follows a smaller prototype called Mammoth Mini, which reached 27 MB / s in laboratory tests. But unlike this Devnet, Mamo-1 is open to the public and connects with the complete data availability layer of Celestia, including the management of light nodes and sampling of data availability. It is supported by 21 validators located in Amsterdam, Paris and Warsaw to reflect a realistic behavior of the network.

THE upgrade is partially fed by a new data transfer protocol called empty!, which improves the way the data moves through the network. Instead of flooding the network with data, nodes only send them to the peers that require them. This reduces unnecessary traffic and makes the system faster and more efficient.

Empty! Also uses something called validators’ availability certificates, so that nodes can announce the data they hold. Even if the complete data is not available from a single source, empty! Includes a new recovery method that helps validators rebuild the missing parts of a block using backup data.

Celestia says that this technology brings them closer to a future where the network can manage blocks of 1 GB. Since its Mainnet October 2023 launchOver 20 rollers have deployed on Celestia, notably Eclipse, Movement Labs (MOVE), and Dymension. However, competition from rival data availability networks like Eigenda and availability could contest its advance.

Even with the new testnet, the Celestia Tia token has not moved much. It is negotiated at $ 2.52, down 30% this month and 88% lower than its level of $ 20.85 in February. According to an April 10 Nansen reportThe interests of developers in the platform remains fairly high despite the drop in prices, increasing the conviction of the recovery of future prices.