Sovereign rollups are a departure from current rollup designs.
What are they? How do they work?
Here are the basics that will get you started 👇
At its core, a sovereign rollup is a blockchain that publishes its transactions to another blockchain (a DA layer) for consensus and data availability.
The DA layer doesn’t make sure that sovereign rollup transactions are correct. It only orders transactions and checks they are available.
Introducing Rollkit, a modular framework for rollups.
Neutral and independent from Celestia, Rollkit serves as a community-led public good that empowers developers with the freedom to deploy throughout the modular stack and accelerate innovation. blog.celestia.org/introducing-ro…
Deploying a new monolithic chain is hard.
Developers must gather a validator set, bootstrap security from scratch, and maintain network infrastructure.
These represent significant costs, preventing many from launching their own chains and slowing innovation.
Rollups minimize these costs by utilizing a consensus and data availability layer, making it easier to deploy and maintain your own chain.
Fun fact: Celestia was originally called LazyLedger
In 2019, @musalbas proposed a blockchain that should do as little or be as "lazy" as possible, and be optimized for solely ordering and guaranteeing the availability of transaction data
Responsibility for executing and validating transactions would be shifted to only the clients that have an interest in specific transactions relating to blockchain applications that they use