Advanced Track 07
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Blockchain Needs Specialization Too
Bitcoin and Ethereum handle execution, consensus, DA, and settlement all in one layer. Like a factory where one worker does every job — a scalability ceiling is inevitable.
What you'll learn
- → The structural limits of monolithic blockchains and why scaling is hard
- → Modular architecture: separating execution, settlement, consensus, and DA into independent layers
- → How Celestia specializes in consensus+DA while rollups handle execution
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Execution
Smart contracts run here
Processes transactions and changes state. Rollups take on this layer.
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Settlement
Dispute resolution, finality
Validates and finalizes rollup outputs. Ethereum is the canonical example.
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Consensus
Transaction ordering
Determines which transactions are included in a block and in what order.
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Data Availability (DA)
Ensuring block data is published
Guarantees that block data is actually published and verifiable by anyone.