#EP107:"Celestia Unpacked: Mustafa Al-Bassam On Modular Blockchains, and What's Next for Scaling.”
May 21st, 2025 · 40 mins 35 secs
About this Episode
🎙️We’re thrilled to share our latest, #107th episode of the Encrypted Podcast:
🔵 ”Celestia Unpacked: Mustafa Al-Bassam On Modular Blockchains, and What's Next for Scaling.”
💎This episode of Encrypted is powered by myco.io, and sponsored by CoinRoutes: https://coinroutes.com
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💡Mustafa started programming at age 9, and his first hack was tweaking an online calculator during math homework.
✅Today, Mustafa Al-Bassam, the co-founder and CEO of Celestia, is leading the charge in modular blockchain design and data availability innovation.
In this deep-dive episode, we explore:
🔹 How Mustafa’s early curiosity sparked a lifelong passion for cybersecurity and decentralization
🔹 Why he left academia after a PhD on blockchain scalability to start Celestia
🔹 The critical role of Data Availability Sampling (DAS) in scaling blockchains securely
🔹 Why modular blockchains are the future—and how Celestia compares to the cloud vs. mainframe analogy
🔹 The importance of zero-knowledge proofs, interoperability with platforms like Cosmos and Arbitrum, and what’s next for the modular ecosystem
❇️Plus, he shares a glimpse of the most exciting projects launching on Celestia—and the challenges still ahead.
🎧 Watch and listen now to find out how one of the space’s most brilliant minds is reshaping blockchain’s base layer.
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