Proposal for Celestia's five core values at the social layer, by Celestia Co-creation.
Original author: @musalbus
Translated by: Luccy, BlockBeats
Celestia co-founder and CEO @musalbus wrote a post on social media platforms introducing the proposal for Celestia's five core values in the social layer. BlockBeats has translated the original text as follows:
Off-chain governance is superior to token holder governance
"We reject kings, presidents and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code." - David D. Clark, IETF
Celestia Network strives to achieve minimal trust, and one key aspect is that the dishonest majority cannot easily change or violate protocol rules. Therefore, the specification forking and state transition functions of the Celestia blockchain are ultimately determined by its social layer and ecosystem, rather than token voting, validators, or whales.
If the social layer and ecosystem widely accept a hard fork, it is considered a normative chain. Before adoption, the network upgrade can be evaluated based on the values of the social layer, which may involve the values described in this article.
Users are the first-class citizens of the network
Users are required to trust centralized endpoints or committees, which violates the core principles of decentralization and Web3. The Celestia community prioritizes the development and adoption of trust-minimized light nodes, allowing users to directly verify the correctness of the chain using techniques such as data availability sampling.
Keep the execution environment and applications neutral and trustworthy
Celestia community firmly believes in a mutually beneficial and win-win encrypted ecosystem, where modularity is superior to maximization. To achieve this goal, Celestia's foundational layer is committed to becoming a universal data availability layer, remaining neutral to any execution environment and application built on top of it. This means that no execution environment is favored to avoid harming the experiments of other execution environments.
通过规模经济实现经济可持续性
Realizing Economic Sustainability through Economies of Scale
Celestia is a public good. Therefore, Celestia strives to serve billions of people by providing high-quality block space on a large scale, achieving economic sustainability rather than relying on artificially scarce resources. Resource pricing should aim to achieve economic sustainability and avoid unnecessary exploitation.
Reduce expenses and state bloat
One core design principle of Celestia is to minimize on-chain state, creating a blockchain that optimizes for data availability while minimizing costs. This means that Celestia currently does not have any inherent on-chain smart contract environment. Future network improvements should strive to keep Celestia's state machine as concise as possible to maintain this feature.
This allows rollups to verify Celestia's specification chain without the need for validation and overhead unrelated to smart contracts, and reduces the state bloat of both rollups and Celestia.
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