celestia-app

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celestia-app

celestia-app is a blockchain application built using parts of the Cosmos stack. celestia-app uses

• celestiaorg/cosmos-sdk a fork of cosmos/cosmos-sdk
• celestiaorg/celestia-core a fork of cometbft/cometbft

Diagram

                ^  +-------------------------------+  ^
                |  |                               |  |
                |  |  State-machine = Application  |  |
                |  |                               |  |   celestia-app (built with Cosmos SDK)
                |  |            ^      +           |  |
                |  +----------- | ABCI | ----------+  v
Celestia        |  |            +      v           |  ^
validator or    |  |                               |  |
full consensus  |  |           Consensus           |  |
node            |  |                               |  |
                |  +-------------------------------+  |   celestia-core (fork of CometBFT)
                |  |                               |  |
                |  |           Networking          |  |
                |  |                               |  |
                v  +-------------------------------+  v

Install

Source

1. Install Go 1.22.0

2. Clone this repo

3. Install the celestia-app CLI

   make install
   

Prebuilt binary

If you'd rather not install from source, you can download a prebuilt binary from the releases page.

1. Navigate to the latest release on https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app/releases.

2. Download the binary for your platform (e.g. celestia-app_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz) from the Assets section. Tip: if you're not sure what platform you're on, you can run uname -a and look for the operating system (e.g. Linux, Darwin) and architecture (e.g. x86_64, arm64).

3. Extract the archive

   tar -xvf celestia-app_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz
   

4. Verify the extracted binary works

   ./celestia-appd --help
   

5. [Optional] verify the prebuilt binary checksum. Download checksums.txt and then verify the checksum:

   sha256sum --ignore-missing --check checksums.txt
   

   You should see output like this:

   celestia-app_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz: OK
   

Ledger Support

Ledger is not supported on Windows and OpenBSD.

Usage

# Print help
celestia-appd --help

Environment variables

Variable	Explanation	Default value	Required
CELESITA_HOME	Home directory for the application	User home dir. Ref.	Optional

Create your own single node devnet

# Start a single node devnet using the pre-installed celestia app
./scripts/single-node.sh

# Build and start a single node devnet
./scripts/build-run-single-node.sh

# Post data to the local devnet
celestia-appd tx blob PayForBlobs [hexNamespace] [hexBlob] [flags]

Note: please note that the ./scripts/ commands above, created a random tmp directory and keeps all data/configs there.

See https://docs.celestia.org/category/celestia-app for more information

Contributing

Tools

1. Install golangci-lint
2. Install markdownlint
3. Install hadolint
4. Install yamllint
5. Install markdown-link-check
6. Install goreleaser

Helpful Commands

# Build a new celestia-app binary and output to build/celestia-appd
make build

# Run tests
make test

# Format code with linters (this assumes golangci-lint and markdownlint are installed)
make fmt

# Regenerate Protobuf files (this assumes Docker is running)
make proto-gen

# Build binaries with goreleaser
make goreleaser-build

Docs

Package-specific READMEs aim to explain implementation details for developers that are contributing to these packages. The specs aim to explain the protocol as a whole for developers building on top of Celestia.

• pkg/shares
• pkg/wrapper
• x/blob
• x/qgb

Audits

Informal Systems audited celestia-app v1.0.0-rc6 in Q3 of 2023. See docs/audit/informal-systems.pdf for the full report.

Careers

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