# Settlement

**URL:** https://forum.celestia.org/c/research/settlement/12.md

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## [About the Settlement category](https://forum.celestia.org/t/about-the-settlement-category/784)

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**Author:** [@Carebear](https://forum.celestia.org/u/Carebear)\
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A category dedicated to research on the settlement layer as a part of a modular stack.

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## [Celestia ZK Accounts: Proving Ethereum State](https://forum.celestia.org/t/celestia-zk-accounts-proving-ethereum-state/1944)

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**Author:** [@nulltea](https://forum.celestia.org/u/nulltea)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 14, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.celestia.org/t/celestia-zk-accounts-proving-ethereum-state/1944 "2025-03-14T14:20:26Z")

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In this post, we compare different ZK light clients to prove the state of Ethereum EL and CL. We summarize trust assumptions and benchmarks for different light client implementations, focusing on the time it takes to gen…

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## [Celestia Snark Accounts Design Spec](https://forum.celestia.org/t/celestia-snark-accounts-design-spec/1639)

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**Author:** [@puma314](https://forum.celestia.org/u/puma314)\
**Replies:** 14\
**Last updated:** [June 19, 2024, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.celestia.org/t/celestia-snark-accounts-design-spec/1639 "2024-06-19T20:56:48Z")

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Celestia Snark Accounts This is a design document on how Celestia might incorporate SNARK accounts into their base layer for enabling interoperability of TIA between Celestia and the rollups that utilize Celestia for dat…

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## [Achieving base layer functionality escape velocity without on-chain smart contracts, using sovereign ZK rollups](https://forum.celestia.org/t/achieving-base-layer-functionality-escape-velocity-without-on-chain-smart-contracts-using-sovereign-zk-rollups/958)

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**Author:** [@musalbas](https://forum.celestia.org/u/musalbas)\
**Replies:** 17\
**Last updated:** [March 18, 2024, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.celestia.org/t/achieving-base-layer-functionality-escape-velocity-without-on-chain-smart-contracts-using-sovereign-zk-rollups/958 "2024-03-18T16:18:07Z")

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A core design choice of Celestia is to minimise on-chain state, thereby creating an overhead-minimised and minimal DA layer. This means that Celestia does not have an on-chain smart contract environment, and does not act…

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## [Where to sequence transactions?](https://forum.celestia.org/t/where-to-sequence-transactions/961)

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**Author:** [@kelemeno](https://forum.celestia.org/u/kelemeno)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [May 24, 2023, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.celestia.org/t/where-to-sequence-transactions/961 "2023-05-24T22:04:26Z")

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After Mustafa’s latest post, a discussion has been opened to add state to the DA to enable more efficient RU operations. In light of this, I would like to look at the question of sequencing, and X-RU atomicity. The DA l…