The Celestia Network will be integrated with the Polygon Chain Development Kit (CDK) sometime “early next year,” according to a Dec. 11 announcement. The integration will provide an “easily pluggable component” for Polygon-based networks to use Celestia to provide data, according to the announcement.
The announcement claimed that transaction fees could be reduced by more than 100 times if networks chose to store compressed transaction data on Celestia instead of Ethereum itself. An upcoming integration early next year will make it easier to implement this option because it will provide this functionality within the Polygon CDK itself.
“This is Web3’s broadband moment,” said Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of Polygon. “The ability to launch a high-performance ZK-powered Ethereum Layer 2 with the same ease as deploying a smart contract will do for blockchain adoption what high-speed fiber did for Web 2 applications.”
Polygon CDK is software that allows developers to create new blockchain networks that are part of the broader Polygon ecosystem. According to the announcement, it is currently used by OKX, Astar, Canto, Gnosis Pay, Palm, and IDEX.
Some Polygon-based networks, such as Polygon zkEVM, are “buckets” that store transaction data directly on the Ethereum network. Others are “validiums” that only store validation proofs on Ethereum, leaving the actual compressed transaction data on a separate network. Aside from Celestia, Avail is another network that can be used to store Avail transaction data.
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