Celestia and ZKsync Detail Separate Network Performance Milestones

Two infrastructure tests measured data availability and Ethereum proof generation, with Celestia averaging 3.07 Tb/s and ZKsync’s test covering 7,200 Ethereum blocks in separate benchmarks.

Fibre is Celestia’s data availability protocol. Airbender Prime is an Ethereum prover that generates proofs for others to verify computation.

Celestia published results from a Fibre data availability benchmark on Oct. 1.

The test averaged 3.07 terabits per second across 120 validators during a 143-second run on an experimental performance branch. Celestia’s planned initial mainnet configuration called for 128 MiB blobs and a cap of 200 submissions per block, compared with the benchmark’s 2 GiB blobs and up to 2,000 submissions. Those experimental settings make the result a poor measure of everyday mainnet throughput.

ZKsync unveiled Airbender Prime on Oct. 13 to showcase Ethereum block proving in real time on one GPU. Across the 7,200-block sample, the system completed 99% of proofs in less than 10 seconds per block; the slowest proofs took under 12 seconds.