The acquisition brings key expertise on board, promotes Sovereign Labs Co-founder Preston Evans to CTO, and establishes Celestia Labs as a full-stack customized blockchain improvement companion for enterprises.
New York, NY — 15 July, 2026 – Celestia Labs, developer of the main modular Layer 1 blockchain Celestia, right this moment introduced it’s bringing on the expertise and expertise behind Sovereign Labs. This acquisition expands Celestia Labs’ experience to span the complete stack of blockchain engineering, from Layer 1 by means of the execution and software layers — enabling end-to-end improvement for peak scale, efficiency and customisation.
Sovereign Labs has been a core pillar of the Celestia ecosystem since its founding in 2021 by Cem Ozer and Preston Evans. Now in 2026, the Sovereign SDK is the trade’s main framework for application-specific, high-performance blockchains. It powers functions like Relay, the #1 bridge by quantity powering over $8.5B of transfers, and Bullet, a perpetuals alternate able to clearing orders in 1.2 milliseconds and processing over 30,000 TPS.
Collectively, the groups behind each teams have shipped greater than 25 manufacturing blockchains and constructed the trade’s main framework for high-performance blockchains. As a part of the acquisition, 6 staff members be a part of Celestia Labs together with Sovereign Labs Co-founder Preston Evans who has been promoted to Chief Know-how Officer.
“Corporations migrating onchain can’t construct in-house what Celestia Labs’ staff and tech affords, by way of reliability or scale. I’m excited to maintain constructing on the legacy Celestia Labs has created, and push the boundaries of blockchain infrastructure engineering to satisfy the calls for of the subsequent period of onchain functions.” — Preston Evans, Chief Know-how Officer, Celestia Labs
The market is already seeing a rise in demand for customized blockchains as a result of present general-purpose chains can’t provide the size and efficiency crucial for the subsequent technology of functions. Hyperliquid, the main decentralized alternate, constructed its personal blockchain to optimize for low latency and customized order circulate guidelines. Polymarket, the prediction market which processed $6B in quantity in H1 2025, is migrating to a customized chain to resolve congestion points. As extra functions run up in opposition to the constraints of present blockchain infrastructure, they are going to want a design and engineering companion to construct the options they want.
“Web-scale functions, from agentic funds options to international exchanges and prediction markets, require customized infrastructure that solely a extremely skilled implementation staff can present. The newly mixed experience and expertise from this acquisition place Celestia Labs as a full-stack infrastructure and design companion for firms that want their very own blockchains.”— Nick White, CEO, Celestia Labs.
Concerning the Celestia Basis
The Celestia Basis is a non-profit organisation supporting the long-term improvement, governance, and ecosystem of the Celestia community, led by CEO and Co-founder Mustafa Al-Bassam.
About Celestia Labs
Celestia Labs is the core engineering staff constructing and sustaining the Celestia community. The staff has collectively shipped greater than 25 customized chains into manufacturing, constructed the trade’s main framework for high-performance blockchains, and raised over $155M from Bain Capital Crypto, Coinbase Ventures, and others.
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Nick White and Preston Evans can be found for interview.
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