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Celestia is the first production modular data availability blockchain. It separates consensus and data availability from execution and settlement, letting rollups, sovereign chains, and other execution layers post their transaction data as blobs to Celestia under namespaces while running their own state machines. Light nodes use Data Availability Sampling and Namespaced Merkle Trees to verify availability without downloading full blocks, and the Blobstream / Blobstream X bridge attests Celestia data commitments on Ethereum and other EVM chains. The reference stack — celestia-app (consensus, Cosmos SDK + CometBFT) and celestia-node (DA bridge/full/ light nodes) — exposes a JSON-RPC API with nine modules (blob, header, share, state, das, fraud, p2p, node, da, blobstream), plus a modular DA interface used by Rollkit, Optimism Alt-DA, Arbitrum Nitro DAS, and other rollup frameworks.

10 APIs 19 Features

APIs

Celestia Node Blob API

JSON-RPC methods in the blob module of celestia-node. Submit blobs to one or more namespaces with blob.Submit, retrieve them by height with blob.Get and blob.GetAll, generate in...

Celestia Node Header API

JSON-RPC methods in the header module of celestia-node. Query ExtendedHeaders with header.LocalHead, header.NetworkHead, header.GetByHeight, header.GetByHash, and header.GetRang...

Celestia Node DA API

JSON-RPC methods in the da module of celestia-node implementing the modular Data Availability interface used by Rollkit, Optimism Alt-DA, Arbitrum Nitro DAS, and other rollup fr...

Celestia Node Share API

JSON-RPC methods in the share module of celestia-node. Provides direct access to Celestia's share-level data, the extended data square (EDS), namespaced shares, and share proofs...

Celestia Node State API

JSON-RPC methods in the state module of celestia-node. Exposes state-level operations including account balances, transfers, delegations, and most importantly state.SubmitPayFor...

Celestia Node DAS API

JSON-RPC methods in the das module of celestia-node. Operational introspection over the Data Availability Sampling subsystem that light nodes run to probabilistically verify blo...

Celestia Node Fraud API

JSON-RPC methods in the fraud module of celestia-node. Exposes fraud proof retrieval and subscription for the BadEncoding fraud proof type used to slash bridge nodes that propag...

Celestia Node P2P API

JSON-RPC methods in the p2p module of celestia-node. libp2p-level introspection and control over the Celestia DA network including peer info, NAT status, connection management, ...

Celestia Node Admin API

JSON-RPC methods in the node module of celestia-node. Provides administrative introspection over the running node including node.Info, node.Ready, node.LogLevelSet, and the auth...

Celestia Node Blobstream API

JSON-RPC methods in the blobstream module of celestia-node. Generates inclusion proofs against Blobstream data commitments so EVM chains can verify, via the Blobstream(X) bridge...

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Features

First production modular data availability layer; separates consensus + DA from execution and settlement
Mainnet Beta launched October 2023; chain id celestia
Mocha-4 public testnet and Arabica devnet for application developers
PayForBlobs (MsgPayForBlobs) transactions for publishing namespaced blob data
Namespaced Merkle Trees (NMT) so each rollup only downloads data for its namespace
2D Reed-Solomon erasure coding over the extended data square (EDS)
Data Availability Sampling (DAS) lets light nodes verify availability without downloading full blocks
Bridge, full, and light celestia-node modes
JSON-RPC over HTTP (default :26658) with bearer-token auth and four permission scopes (public, read, write, admin)
WebSocket subscriptions for blob.Subscribe, header.Subscribe, fraud.Subscribe
Modular DA interface (da.*) compatible with Rollkit, Optimism Alt-DA, Arbitrum Nitro DAS, OP-Succinct, Kona, Hana
celestia-app exposes Cosmos SDK gRPC (:9090), REST (:1317), and CometBFT RPC (:26657) for consensus-level queries
Blobstream and Blobstream X bridge to Ethereum and EVM chains for cross-chain data root verification
Lumina Rust+Wasm light node runs in the browser
Funded by TIA staking and PayForBlobs gas fees; no central API key or commercial pricing tier
Reference implementations in Go (celestia-node, celestia-app) and Rust (lumina, celestia-rpc)
Apache-2.0 licensed across the celestia-node, celestia-app, celestia-core, and tooling repos
Active CIP (Celestia Improvement Proposal) process for protocol governance
Ecosystem rollups include Manta Pacific, Eclipse, Movement, Lightlink, Polygon CDK Validium, Astria, Hyperliquid (DA usage), and many more

Semantic Vocabularies

Celestia Context

39 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

API Governance Rules

celestia API Rules

4 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Structure

Celestia Blob Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Example Payloads

Celestia Blob Get Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Celestia Blob Submit Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Celestia Da Submit Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

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