Technical principles | What does “data availability” mean, and why is it so important for scaling?
DAS is generally used with erasure coding: data is encoded into a redundant version, and the full data can be recovered as long as enough fragments are available.
Rollup security depends on data availability: when transaction data is public, anyone can calculate the state themselves, submit fraud proofs, or withdraw funds independently if the sequencer goes down.
$TIA is the native token of Celestia, a public blockchain built specifically for data availability.
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