We asked @sidgandhi_xyz about the reaction to the @payy_link card launch announcement. "I think the reaction has been absolutely tremendous." "We've gotten tons of inbound, tons of users, and so real engagement." "What was really cool about this post was that there was people posting screenshots of their Payy card." "I think that came through and people saw that."

Blockspace is the most important resource for the growth of crypto If there's not enough blockspace, then we can't transact onchain and the industry can't grow

To have a shot of a sustainable business in crypto, you must either own the users or the developers. Users will gather around specific applications, wallets, and interfaces. Developers will gather around specific rollup frameworks and L1s.

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Fellow Celestians, do yourself a favor and follow @kkocality -- OG sloth, talented dev, and one of the most knowledgable one Celestia's tech and ecosystem. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Some quick lore on @sovereign_labs now that they’ve launched In 2022, @cemozer_ came to our Celestia dinner during ETH Denver and told me he wanted to build the first sovereign rollup. At that time, sovereign rollups were just an idea @musalbas had written about, but most people dismissed it. But Cem saw the opportunity and went for it. As the idea was forming Cem mentioned he was working with some dude named Preston and that we was a true gigabrain. I didn't know @prestonevans__ then, but after the first time I met him I was absolutely blown away and I got even more bullish. Over the next 3 years together Cem and Preston grinded through fundraises, persevered through the boom and bust of the modular hype cycle, and were among the first builders to recognize the potential for zkVMs, proof aggregation, and the entirely new design space for application specific rollps that was opening up as a result. I always thought of Celestia as the endgame L1 architecture, and of Sovereign SDK as the endgame rollup framework. A match made in crypto geek heaven. Now that the framework is production ready, we're closer than we've ever been to seeing the fullness of the modular vision come to life. I think the full magnitude of what they've built won't be appreciated until a few years from now, but in hindsight it will seem inevitable. Congrats to Cem, Preston and everyone who has been part of the journey to get here 3 years later and it's still day one

Payy is the best crypto payment app and it's not even close: - fully private - onramp with Apple Pay - ridiculously smooth UX - ...and now a physical card 🔥 All with Celestia underneath

What's Celestia by the way?

Celestia is an index on crypto adoption In the early 2000's if you were bullish on internet adoption but had no way of knowing which web apps would win, one of the best ways to express that thesis would have been to buy cloud platforms which provide the raw computing resources for businesses to host web apps. This would have given you index-like exposure to the overall growth of the internet and its applications. Picks n shovels. And this would be lower risk than investing in apps directly since apps come and go, but every app needs infrastructure to operate. Most of all it would have been very lucrative trade as the top 3 cloud platforms now total over $3T in market cap. Fast forward to the 2020's and crypto adoption appears poised to enter an exponential phase. Regulatory clarity, institutional adoption, mature infrastructure, and improved UX all point towards dramatic growth for blockchain apps in the near future. But how can you express this thesis? In my opinion the answer is similar to what it was in the 2000's -- you want to own the providers of the raw computing resources that power crypto apps. In other words, you want to own decentralized compute providers like Celestia. As crypto adoption spikes, so too will the total demand transact onchain. All those transactions have to land on someone's blockspace and so the total demand for blockspace/decentralized compute will go vertical. There aren't many L1s positioned for this level of growth in blockspace demand, but Celestia is. Celestia's explicit goal is to scale blockspace production as much as possible to meet the future demand we believe is inevitably coming. So if you're bullish on crypto adoption, you ought to be bullish on Celestia. If you're not bullish on crypto adoption, well then why are you here?

Blockspace is the web3 equivalent of bandwidth Celestia is in the business of dramatically scaling blockspace to bring crypto into the fiber era