Move is a public chain with a bad start, and the modular blockchain is rising strongly

Inventory the progress of the modular blockchain and explore the latest technological innovations and applications of the modular blockchain.

Written by: TinTinLand

It will be one month from the launch of the Sui mainnet in May this year, but Sui does not seem to have met the expectations of the industry and investment institutions in 2022. IDO redemption delays and breakouts of projects in the ecosystem... The negative and negative feedback of community users is exactly the same as the atmosphere of the original Aptos community. It is still uncertain whether Aptos and Sui, the two representative public chains of the Move system, are "just like that", but a clear conclusion is that the prediction of the Move system blockchain in 2022 has not been fulfilled.

**What about modular blockchains? **

In 2022, not only Move-based public chains, but also trends such as modular blockchains, DeFi protochains, and application chains have also attracted the attention of many investment institutions and project teams. Compared with the fire of the Move public chain, the latter has not caused widespread discussion. This can't help but make people look forward to the latter or even bigger surprises are brewing. **Today we will take stock of modular blockchain and blockchain modularization progress, and explore the latest technological innovations and applications of modular blockchain. **

In 2023, after the "disappointment" of the Move public chain, is the modular blockchain still worth looking forward to?

**What is a modular blockchain? **

A modular blockchain is a network architecture that decomposes blockchain functionality into different layers. Traditional blockchain systems typically integrate functions such as consensus, settlement, data availability, and execution into a single architecture. However, as the complexity and requirements of blockchain applications increase, a single architecture may not be able to meet the requirements of different scenarios. Therefore, the modular blockchain separates these core functions, enabling each functional module to operate independently while maintaining collaboration with each other. **This architecture makes the blockchain system more flexible and scalable, and can be customized and optimized according to different needs. **

Published in 2022, Will Modular Blockchains Bring the Future of Web3 Users? "In the article, we compared the modular blockchain and the monolithic blockchain. Interested partners can click to read the development and technical advantages of modularization at that time.

The latest progress of the modular blockchain project

We took stock of the modular blockchain last year, or the modular progress of the blockchain. Fuel Labs, Polygon Hermez, Arbitrum, and others are doing modularity by building execution layers for modular stacks; teams like Celestia are working on dedicated data availability and consensus layers, as are Aptos and Sui. Celestia allows a wide range of execution layer implementations to use it as a data availability layer, laying the foundation for alternative non-EVM virtual machines such as WASM, Starknet, and FuelVM; Optimism researches sharding, incentivized verification, and decentralized orderers.

First let's focus on the latest development of the first modular Layer1 Celestia below.

Celestia in 2023

As the first modular blockchain network, Celestia represents a major step forward in blockchain design. **Celestia provides a consensus and data network that allows developers to easily build and deploy their own execution layers on top of Celestia. **Celestia Labs, the startup behind Celestia, announced last year that the team had raised $55 million in funding led by Bain Capital Crypto and Polychain Capital to build a modular architecture for deploying and scaling blockchains.

MODULAR LATEST EXAMPLE

Studying the development and application of modular blockchains, we found that not only did last year’s projects have the latest progress, but a number of new modular projects are also flooding into the market.

Astria is a modular blockchain** designed to enable anyone to deploy their own censorship-resistant Rollup (sidechain) without relying on a centralized sequencer. **It achieves high-throughput and low-latency soft submission through a shared sequencer network, and has cross-chain composability. Astria combines the research focus of Celestia and Optimism last year in the direction of exploration. In April, it was reported that modular blockchain Astria had raised $5.5 million in funding for a shared orderer network.

Zebec is a pioneering liquid finance company that developed Nautilus Chain, an L3 level modular blockchain. Nautilus Chain combines the high-speed performance of Solana and the stability of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which can process transactions in parallel to provide continuous transaction and payment functions for DeFi and consumer applications.

**Fetch.ai is an artificial intelligence-based encryption protocol, and they also use a modular blockchain architecture. ** Their blockchain network allows for the deployment of distributed machine learning and smart contracts, providing highly flexible and scalable solutions for applications in various fields.

It is foreseeable that the modular blockchain will release greater development potential and application possibilities in the near future.

**How does modular blockchain help developers? **

Modular blockchains have many significant advantages, being more flexible and friendly from a development perspective. ** Modular blockchains provide developers with greater flexibility and scalability. **By decomposing the core functions into different levels of modules, developers can customize and optimize according to actual needs, thereby improving the performance and efficiency of the entire system.

Second, a **modular blockchain facilitates collaboration and interoperability. **Different modules can operate independently while maintaining mutual collaboration, which provides greater convenience for cross-chain operations and data sharing. Modular blockchains also offer increased security. By separating the functional modules, the single point of failure in the system can be reduced and the anti-attack capability of the entire network can be enhanced.

What's more, the **modular blockchain provides a greater space for the development team to innovate and grow. **Developers and enterprises can build their own blockchain applications according to their own needs and goals, bringing more possibilities for application scenarios in different fields.