Celestia Data Availability

This section describes the requirements to use OP Succinct for a chain with Celestia DA. The requirements are additive to the ones required for the op-succinct service. Please refer to the Proposer section for the base configuration.

Environment Setup

To use Celestia DA, you need additional environment variables.

Important: When using Docker Compose, these variables must be in a .env file in the same directory as your docker-compose-celestia.yml file. Docker Compose needs these variables in .env for variable substitution in the compose file itself.

Parameter	Description
`CELESTIA_CONNECTION`	URL of the Celestia light node RPC endpoint. For setup instructions, see Celestia's documentation on light node.
`NAMESPACE`	Namespace ID for the Celestia DA. A namespace is a unique identifier that allows applications to have their own data availability space within Celestia's data availability layer. For more details, see Celestia's documentation on Namespaced Merkle Trees (NMTs).
`CELESTIA_INDEXER_RPC`	URL of the op-celestia-indexer RPC endpoint. This is required for querying the location of L2 blocks in Celestia or Ethereum DA.
`START_L1_BLOCK`	Starting L1 block number for the indexer to begin syncing from. Note: This should be early enough to cover derivation of the starting L2 block from the contract.
`BATCH_INBOX_ADDRESS`	Address of the batch inbox contract on L1.

Additionally, include all the base configuration variables from the Proposer section in the same .env file.

When using Celestia DA, ensure L1 node has sufficient proof history (archive node recommended). If the L1 node doesn't have a sufficient proof history, you may see `error distance to target block exceeds maximum proof window` when making `eth_getProof` RPC calls if proposer falls behind.

op-celestia-indexer

The op-celestia-indexer is a required component that indexes L2 block locations on both Celestia DA and Ethereum DA. It is automatically included in the docker-compose-celestia.yml configuration and will start before the OP Succinct proposer service.

The indexer runs on port 57220 and uses the environment variables from your .env file. When using docker-compose, the CELESTIA_INDEXER_RPC is automatically set to http://op-celestia-indexer:57220 for inter-container communication.

For more details about op-celestia-indexer, see the official documentation.

Running the indexer separately (optional)

If you need to run the indexer separately without docker-compose:

docker pull opcelestia/op-celestia-indexer:op-node-v1.13.6-rc.1

# Create a directory for the indexer database
mkdir -p ~/indexer-data

docker run -d \
  --name op-celestia-indexer \
  -p 57220:57220 \
  -v ~/indexer-data:/data \
  opcelestia/op-celestia-indexer:op-node-v1.13.6-rc.1 \
  op-celestia-indexer \
  --start-l1-block <START_L1_BLOCK> \
  --batch-inbox-address <BATCH_INBOX_ADDRESS> \
  --l1-eth-rpc <L1_RPC> \
  --l2-eth-rpc <L2_RPC> \
  --op-node-rpc <L2_NODE_RPC> \
  --rpc.enable-admin \
  --rpc.addr 0.0.0.0 \
  --rpc.port 57220 \
  --da.rpc <CELESTIA_CONNECTION> \
  --da.namespace <NAMESPACE> \
  --da.auth_token <CELESTIA_AUTH_TOKEN> \
  --db-path /data/indexer.db

When running separately, set CELESTIA_INDEXER_RPC=http://localhost:57220 in your .env file.

Run the Celestia Proposer Service

Run the op-succinct-celestia service.

docker compose -f docker-compose-celestia.yml up -d

To see the logs of the op-succinct-celestia service, run:

docker compose -f docker-compose-celestia.yml logs -f

To stop the op-succinct-celestia service, run:

docker compose -f docker-compose-celestia.yml down

Deploying `OPSuccinctL2OutputOracle` with Celestia features

just deploy-oracle .env celestia

Updating `OPSuccinctL2OutputOracle` Parameters

just update-parameters .env celestia

For more details on the just update-parameters command, see the Updating OPSuccinctL2OutputOracle Parameters section.

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