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Involving a range of superb guests of likeminded innovators, enablers, investors, government officials, executives and more, Encrypted takes you on a journey to make sense of what is going on in the Wild West of cryptocurrencies, understand valid use cases of blockchain technology and how various industries could be impacted.
Encrypted is Dubai based, and the first podcast dedicated to blockchain and crypto in the MENA region, so expect to hear interesting stories, and people from this side of the world. 
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Involving a range of superb guests of likeminded innovators, enablers, investors, government officials, executives and more, Encrypted takes you on a journey to make sense of what is going on in the Wild West of cryptocurrencies, understand valid use cases of blockchain technology and how various industries could be impacted.
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  <title>#EP107:"Celestia Unpacked: Mustafa Al-Bassam On Modular Blockchains, and What's Next for Scaling.” </title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>🎙️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
🌐CoinRoutes is a leading institutional crypto trading platform that has rapidly established itself as a market leader in systematic trading solutions, offering a powerful algorithmic order execution management system that empowers the world’s largest crypto trading firms.
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  <description>🎙️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
🌐CoinRoutes is a leading institutional crypto trading platform that has rapidly established itself as a market leader in systematic trading solutions, offering a powerful algorithmic order execution management system that empowers the world’s largest crypto trading firms.
💡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.
 #EncryptedPodcast #DubaiBlockchaincenter #Celestia #Myco #Coinroutes #Blockchain #Web3 #ModularBlockchain #ZKProofs #MustafaAlBassam #DataAvailability #DAS #Rollups #Cosmos #Arbitrum #Decentralization Special Guest: Mustafa Al-Bassam.
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    <![CDATA[<p>🎙️We’re thrilled to share our latest, #107th episode of the Encrypted Podcast:<br>
🔵 ”Celestia Unpacked: Mustafa Al-Bassam On Modular Blockchains, and What&#39;s Next for Scaling.” <br>
💎This episode of Encrypted is powered by myco.io, and sponsored by CoinRoutes: <a href="https://coinroutes.com" rel="nofollow">https://coinroutes.com</a><br>
🌐CoinRoutes is a leading institutional crypto trading platform that has rapidly established itself as a market leader in systematic trading solutions, offering a powerful algorithmic order execution management system that empowers the world’s largest crypto trading firms.<br>
💡Mustafa started programming at age 9, and his first hack was tweaking an online calculator during math homework.<br>
✅Today, Mustafa Al-Bassam, the co-founder and CEO of Celestia, is leading the charge in modular blockchain design and data availability innovation.<br>
In this deep-dive episode, we explore:<br>
 🔹 How Mustafa’s early curiosity sparked a lifelong passion for cybersecurity and decentralization<br>
 🔹 Why he left academia after a PhD on blockchain scalability to start Celestia<br>
 🔹 The critical role of Data Availability Sampling (DAS) in scaling blockchains securely<br>
 🔹 Why modular blockchains are the future—and how Celestia compares to the cloud vs. mainframe analogy<br>
 🔹 The importance of zero-knowledge proofs, interoperability with platforms like Cosmos and Arbitrum, and what’s next for the modular ecosystem<br>
❇️Plus, he shares a glimpse of the most exciting projects launching on Celestia—and the challenges still ahead.<br>
🎧 Watch and listen now to find out how one of the space’s most brilliant minds is reshaping blockchain’s base layer.<br>
 #EncryptedPodcast #DubaiBlockchaincenter #Celestia #Myco #Coinroutes #Blockchain #Web3 #ModularBlockchain #ZKProofs #MustafaAlBassam #DataAvailability #DAS #Rollups #Cosmos #Arbitrum #Decentralization</p><p>Special Guest: Mustafa Al-Bassam.</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>🎙️We’re thrilled to share our latest, #107th episode of the Encrypted Podcast:<br>
🔵 ”Celestia Unpacked: Mustafa Al-Bassam On Modular Blockchains, and What&#39;s Next for Scaling.” <br>
💎This episode of Encrypted is powered by myco.io, and sponsored by CoinRoutes: <a href="https://coinroutes.com" rel="nofollow">https://coinroutes.com</a><br>
🌐CoinRoutes is a leading institutional crypto trading platform that has rapidly established itself as a market leader in systematic trading solutions, offering a powerful algorithmic order execution management system that empowers the world’s largest crypto trading firms.<br>
💡Mustafa started programming at age 9, and his first hack was tweaking an online calculator during math homework.<br>
✅Today, Mustafa Al-Bassam, the co-founder and CEO of Celestia, is leading the charge in modular blockchain design and data availability innovation.<br>
In this deep-dive episode, we explore:<br>
 🔹 How Mustafa’s early curiosity sparked a lifelong passion for cybersecurity and decentralization<br>
 🔹 Why he left academia after a PhD on blockchain scalability to start Celestia<br>
 🔹 The critical role of Data Availability Sampling (DAS) in scaling blockchains securely<br>
 🔹 Why modular blockchains are the future—and how Celestia compares to the cloud vs. mainframe analogy<br>
 🔹 The importance of zero-knowledge proofs, interoperability with platforms like Cosmos and Arbitrum, and what’s next for the modular ecosystem<br>
❇️Plus, he shares a glimpse of the most exciting projects launching on Celestia—and the challenges still ahead.<br>
🎧 Watch and listen now to find out how one of the space’s most brilliant minds is reshaping blockchain’s base layer.<br>
 #EncryptedPodcast #DubaiBlockchaincenter #Celestia #Myco #Coinroutes #Blockchain #Web3 #ModularBlockchain #ZKProofs #MustafaAlBassam #DataAvailability #DAS #Rollups #Cosmos #Arbitrum #Decentralization</p><p>Special Guest: Mustafa Al-Bassam.</p>]]>
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