211 - Is DA a Good Business Model? - Neel Somani & Jon Charbonneau

What’s Data Availability (DA) and what’s its Business Model?

In this episode we’re welcomed by Jon Charbonneau, researcher-investor at DBA and Neel Somani, CEO of Eclipse.

We unpack everything Data Availability from what it unlocks to its economics. We also get into the DA Market covering participants like Celestia and EigenDA.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intro
7:27 What is DA?
16:45 Is DA a Commodity?
23:40 DA Costs
30:23 What DA Unlocks
37:41 The DA Market
1:01:40 Network Effects
1:07:56 DA Economics
1:14:50 DA Value Capture
1:20:23 Celestia Monetary Premium
1:29:10 What’s Next for DA
1:34:29 Solana DA
1:36:01 Closing Thoughts

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RESOURCES

Jon Charbonneau
https://twitter.com/jon_charb 

Neel Somani
https://twitter.com/neelsalami 

Celestia
https://celestia.org/  

EigenDA
https://docs.eigenlayer.xyz/eigenda/overview 

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