#EP107:"Celestia Unpacked: Mustafa Al-Bassam On Modular Blockchains, and What's Next for Scaling.”

🎙️We’re thrilled to share our latest, 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: 🌐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. Special Guest: Mustafa Al-Bassam.

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#EP107:"Celestia Unpacked: Mustafa Al-Bassam On Modular Blockchains, and What's Next for Scaling.” is an episode from Encrypted by Ahmed Al-Balaghi.

This episode is 40:35 long.

This episode was published on May 21, 2025.

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