Celestia Says Fibre Sustained 3.07 Tb/s In 120-Validator Benchmark
Celestia reported a Fibre benchmark that reached 3.07 terabits per second across 120 validators, with the test covering the full path from encoding through onchain commitment submission. The setup used 2-gigabyte blobs, while the planned initial mainnet cap is 128 megabytes, and the result was described as an experimental benchmark rather than live mainnet traffic.
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Developers and validator operators are the groups most likely to notice this first, because the benchmark describes a full pipeline across 120 validators. It shows Fibre being exercised through encoding, distribution, storage, signatures and onchain commitment submission in a test setting, which is the relevant operational change for people watching Celestia’s data-availability setup day to day.
In practice, the benchmark changes the scale of what was demonstrated in test conditions, not what is already live on mainnet. The test used 2-gigabyte blobs, while the planned initial mainnet cap is 128 megabytes, so the demonstration and the current mainnet parameter are not the same thing.
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