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Celestia Blob Throughput

app version original square size blob capacity block time blob throughput
v1 64 2 MiB 12 seconds ~0.2 MiB / s
v2 64 2 MiB 12 seconds ~0.2 MiB / s
v3 128 8 MiB 6 seconds ~1 MiB / s
v4 128 8 MiB 6 seconds ~1 MiB / s
v5 128 8 MiB 6 seconds ~1 MiB / s
v6 256 32 MiB 6 seconds ~5 MiB / s
v7 512 128 MiB 6 seconds ~21 MiB / s

Assumptions

  • shareSize is 512 bytes

Notes

  • The true blobCapacity is slightly lower than the values in the table due to the overhead of tx shares in the data square, the overhead of metadata at the beggining of each share, padding shares, etc.
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