"Nautilus Chain is currently the industry's first sovereign Layer 3 blockchain system constructed in a modular manner. It is also the earliest witness under Celestia's modular Layer 0 system. Now the main network of Nautilus Chain is officially launched, revealing that modular blockchain is moving from the early theoretical stage to practice."
Celestia: A New Modular Blockchain Idea
Starting from 2020, the Rollup system (Layer 2) built around Ethereum is regarded as the earliest modularization practice. The Rollup scheme is used to separate the execution layer, combined with the packaging of data, to greatly improve the output efficiency of the Ethereum network. Vitalik, the founder of Ethereum, also recognized this expansion of Ethereum, and believed that the future Ethereum system will be composed of Layer1 and Layer2.
In fact, the Layer 2 built around Ethereum does not have sovereignty. Layer 2 needs Ethereum Layer 1 as the root chain support in many aspects such as DA, security, and settlement. Although these Layer 2 are independent of each other and are growing their own ecology, Layer 2 needs to be fully developed under the framework of Ethereum Layer 1, that is, the behavior of Layer 2 is usually subject to the consensus of the Ethereum Layer 1 community.
Last year, Celestia proposed a brand-new modular blockchain concept. Based on Coamos, it launched a Layer0 system with pluggable consensus and data availability layer features, allowing anyone to quickly deploy a decentralized blockchain without the cost of an additional consensus layer. Layer 1, represented by Ethereum, Solana, etc., usually runs data, transaction ordering consensus, network status consensus, and execution completely on a separate chain, and Layer 2 built around it only decentralizes the execution layer.
Celestia further separates the network state consensus layer from the execution layer, and only retains the data and transaction ordering consensus, allowing developers to have higher customization capabilities and sovereignty. Benefiting from the fact that nodes only need to deal with the storage of transaction data and consensus on transaction order (no need to perform calculations and state consensus), combined with the Data Available Sampling scheme, Celestia nodes can operate more efficiently, that is, the efficiency of the Celestia network has been greatly improved. At the same time, using Celestia as the underlying blockchain upper layer network will also be able to share the security brought by Celestia.
So to sum up, Celestia provides different solutions for modular expansion, including sovereign Rollup, settlement Rollup, etc. Celestia can make emerging chains more autonomous, efficient execution environment, scalability, and minimum governance in the form of modular chains, and lower the threshold for deployment.
Nautilus Chain: The Carrier of Celestia's Modular Vision
Celestia itself is a Layer0 infrastructure, and its main responsibility is to provide DA and transaction ordering consensus support for its upper chain. After the Celestia system was launched, Nautilus Chain became the first modular blockchain system built on Celestia, and became an early practitioner of Celestia's vision.
Nautilus Chain itself is a Layer3-oriented blockchain system, which obtains DA support through the Celestia modular bottom layer to ensure unified data availability, and further provides more modular development tools on this basis.
In addition to Celestia, Nautilus Chain is also providing support for developers through Eclipse. Developers can customize various components according to their preferences, such as execution environments such as EVM, SVM, and MoveVM, which also provides the basis for Nautilus Chain's customized development language. With the support of Celestia and Eclipse, different chains in the Nautilus Chain system will hand over the data layer and transaction consensus layer to Celestia, which improves the performance of its chain throughput, which also makes Nautilus Chain the L3 expansion solution for the fastest running EVM Rollup.
Therefore, when the applications in the ecosystem want to achieve more functions, reduce operating costs or enhance security, and obtain more sovereignty, developers can choose a solution that suits them more widely in the modules of the Nautilus Chain package, so as to choose to customize the construction of DAPP-Chain, DAPP-Rollup or DAPP-Subnet.
These application layers based on Nautilus Chain will continue to provide support for DA, transaction consensus, settlement, etc. through Layer0 facilities such as Celestia and Eclipse. They will run in parallel and have sovereignty without fundamental compromises in terms of security/usability. Therefore, these brand-new layers established through Nautilus Chain and with application as the main purpose can establish a new consensus system on their own layer to serve the application itself, and are allowed to freely choose to parse the underlying data in different ways, upgrade their clients without forking, and meet the needs of different ecology.
As the first modular chain, Nautilus Chain also encapsulates storage, computing, consensus, etc. in different modules, which means that it can obtain higher scalability and expansion capabilities, and further improve network throughput, security, and privacy on the basis of Layer2.
Preparing for the Future of Blockchain Adoption at Scale
Since the early days of the development of the encryption industry, the construction of blockchains has been aimed at wide application in the future, but these early systems are difficult to meet the needs in terms of load capacity, scalability, privacy, compliance, etc., and continue to fall silent as the industry narrative changes. If the blockchain wants to move closer to the traditional world, it needs to make fundamental changes to match the needs of the traditional world.
Although the Ethereum ecosystem is working hard in this direction, such as the establishment of the Layer 2 system and the launch of the new ETH2.0, these new changes seem to be making up for the shortcomings of its early design, and it is difficult to make substantial changes to the excessive concentration of "power", which also makes the development of the system drift away from its original intention of "world computer".
Decentralization, independence, and decentralization are becoming new themes in the development of the public chain track. The new sovereign modular system based on Cosmos, Celestia, and Eclipse is reshaping the overall shape of the blockchain world.
As expressed by Celestia investor Delphi Ventures, Cosmos pioneered the concept of community computer clusters, and autonomous communities form their own consensus around the applications they care about and prefer; Celestia hopes to effectively verify through community computer clusters to achieve the vision of expansion. On this basis, Nautilus Chain has become the proponent, successor and practitioner of these Layer0 facility visions in a modular Layer3 architecture.
With the launch of the Nautilus Chain mainnet, the new modular blockchain will go further out of the theoretical stage, and the large-scale adoption of the blockchain will also be put on the agenda.