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Modular/L2 developments are heating up. Celestia’s data-availability layer now hosts 56+ sovereign rollups (37 live mainnet as of May 2025)
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, kickstarting a new wave of app-specific chains. Fuel Labs just launched its “Ignition” optimistic L2 mainnet for parallel execution. Arbitrum’s OP Stack and Optimism upgrades are also accelerating. The new modular paradigm – unbundling consensus, execution, and data – is here, finally enabling massive scale.