Celestia to integrate with Polygon CDK for data delivery in 2024
According to a December 11 announcement, the Celestia network will be integrated with the Polygon Chain Development Kit (CDK) sometime “early next year.” The integration provides an “easy-to-plug-in component” for polygon-based networks to use Celestia for data access.
The announcement states that if networks store compressed transaction data on Celestia instead of Ethereum, transaction fees can be reduced by more than 100 times. The integration coming in early 2024 will make this choice easier, providing this option in the Polygon CDK software.
“This is broadband time for Web3,” said Sandeep Nailwal, founder of Polygon. “Being able to easily deploy high-speed ZDK enabled Ethereum Layer 2 as a smart contract will do for blockchain adoption what high-speed fiber has done for Web 2 applications.”
Polygon's CDK enables software developers to create new blockchain networks that are part of the wider Polygon ecosystem. It is currently used by OKX, Astar, Canto, Gnosis Pay, Palm and IDEX, according to the announcement.
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Some Polygon-based networks, including the Polygon Zero Knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine, are “packages” that store transaction data directly on the Ethereum network. Others are “Validium” which stores authentication credentials only on Ethereum while leaving the actual compressed transaction data on a separate network. Besides Celestia, Avail is another network that stores transaction data for accuracy.
