what's celestia?
Celestia is a modular blockchain network designed to provide a dedicated data availability layer, enabling developers to easily deploy sovereign rollups and scalable applications without the constraints of monolithic blockchains. Its core purpose is to decouple data availability from execution and consensus, allowing for greater flexibility, security, and throughput in blockchain ecosystems. Key features include the use of the TIA token for staking, governance, and paying for data posting, as well as innovations like the upcoming Matcha network upgrade that introduces Proof of Governance to enhance participation and token economics. Celestia supports integrations with Layer 2 solutions and projects such as the O'Ruggin Trail game, which plans to leverage its infrastructure alongside Starknet for mainnet launches. The network has demonstrated robust user growth, with active users increasing by over 90% in recent periods, underscoring its expanding adoption in the modular blockchain space.
Celestia is infrastructure for Hibachi, which reported $389M weekly perpetuals volume, up 177% WoW.
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Experienced a 22.58% price increase over a 24-hour period ending on February 25, 2026.
Hibiscus (V7) upgrade scheduled to go live in mid-March 2026, introducing single-signature cross-chain transfers and cryptographic proof-based message verification features.
Reached 427K weekly transactions, up 61.2% week-over-week and 110% month-over-month, marking the 6th consecutive week of growth for the week ending February 18, 2026.
Achieved $306K in weekly IBC (Inter-Blockchain Communication) volume, ranking 5th among IBC assets.
Mentioned as the underlying infrastructure for Hibachi, which reported $389M weekly perpetuals volume (up 177% week-over-week).
Recorded 413,000 weekly transactions, up 9.9% week-over-week.
Orderly is ramping up data availability usage to approximately 4 MiB, representing a 35% increase
Added Ethan to the team as part of building the organization for Celestia 2.0.
Achieved $1.4 million in weekly IBC transfer volume, ranking 3rd among IBC assets.
Unveiled 'Fibre', a next-generation protocol designed to scale blockspace to 1TB/s using ZODA encoding, achieving an 880x performance boost over current standards to support high-bandwidth applications like AI agent payments and real-time ads.
80% of new rollups chose alternative data layers including Celestia by the end of 2025, shifting away from Ethereum's native data availability.
Nansen validator commission rate increases from 10% to 20% on 2026-01-15 due to rising validator operational costs.
Listed in a staking rewards program on Crypto.com offering 15% APY with 14-day lockup period, limited to 217,800 TIA in total allocations, running from December 25, 2025 to January 8, 2026.
Whale wallets accumulate $240M in TIA, ranking second among altcoins for current smart money inflows.
Binance removes TIA/FDUSD from both cross and isolated margin trading pairs effective December 23, 2025, at 09:00 UTC.
Launched Bullet, a Solana-based perpetuals DEX, mainnet on February 12, 2026, using Celestia for data availability, built with Sovereign SDK, Succinct SP1, and Pyth Lazer.
LunarCrush data shows Celestia with 0.4% social dominance mindshare, ranking 19th among major cryptocurrencies tracked.
Via v2 launches as a Bitcoin zk-rollup with zkEVM execution layer utilizing Celestia for data availability and featuring native yields on stablecoin bridges.
TIA staking goes live on BinanceUS with monthly rewards and flexible unstaking options.
Astria Network shuts down its shared sequencer network despite raising $18 million in funding.
TIA price increases 15% in a single day during broader market rally.
TIA records $156M trading volume, representing 28% of its $600M market cap.
TIA token down 88% year-to-date in 2025.
Governance proposal #8 is active, proposing to raise block size limit from 8 MiB to 32 MiB with 256 square size to utilize v6 network improvements and increase data capacity.
Planned Converge chain partnership with Ethena and Securitize did not launch because TIA token lacks material value to fund the project.
VCs like Polychain sell locked staking rewards, extracting hundreds of millions from the market.
Chain data now stored on Filecoin Onchain Cloud through KYVE Network, providing petabyte-scale archive storage and fast validator sync.
The project raised $156M but currently has $0 in TVL and generates only $90 in daily fees, listed among dead projects that launched this cycle.
Fee sponsorship feature goes live on Keplr Extension and Mobile for Celestia alongside Cosmos, Osmosis, AtomOne, and Noble.
A team member focused on ecosystem development and partner empowerment announces their last day at the project.
Team layoffs announced as the project restructures to focus on becoming the leading blockspace product for high-performance onchain markets.
Matcha upgrade delivers 16x throughput boost reaching 200k TPS, cuts inflation to 2.5%, and expands bridging to support any asset.
Matcha upgrade completes with 128MB block capacity, enabling all Conduit chains using Celestia DA to access the new capacity.
Matcha Upgrade scheduled for Monday, November 24.
Token price down 97% from ATH.
Nick White reveals strategic focus on app acquisition rather than internal infrastructure use, allocating approximately 20% to verticalization with emphasis on CLOBs and onchain finance sectors.
KYVE Network stores Celestia chain datasets on Filecoin Onchain Cloud, enabling decentralized storage and fast validator sync.
MilkyWay introduces milkTIA as a liquid staking token for staked TIA positions, which remains fully transferable and on-chain while earning staking yields.
Total insider selling reaches an estimated $1B+ in TIA tokens.
ChainSafe announces availability of infrastructure and staking services for Celestia alongside other major blockchain projects.
Celestia is announced as a speaker at Sovereign Day Buenos Aires during EFDevcon, appearing alongside major projects including Solana, Ondo Finance, McKinsey, and Lombard Finance.
Wanderer, a fully on-chain open edition, goes live at 5pm CEST with a mint price of 1 TIA (~$1).
Token unlocks are completed and high short interest has accumulated on the token.
XO Market launches with Celestia as its underlying infrastructure layer.
The recent TIA price pump is characterized as an "exit pump," suggesting insiders used the rally to exit positions.
TIA ranks as a top gainer today, representing a reversal from recent all-time lows below $1 reported on November 7.
The co-founder publicly echoes "Free SBF" talking points, creating reputational controversy and investor concerns about team judgment.
TIA now trades below $1, a major decline from the below $5 level reported on November 6.
TIA reaches all-time lows, trading below $5 with a fully diluted valuation of $5.5B.
Users instructed to hold TIA in ETH wallets in preparation for upcoming Forma launch or integration.
Deposits for TIA now open on BinanceUS, with trading launching Nov 6 at 7 AM EST and staking to follow.
Four or more new CLOB DEXs launch by Q1 2026, with reduced inflation from proof of governance creating the possibility of TIA becoming net deflationary in 2026. Issuance drops 70% to 2.5% in the Matcha upgrade while throughput scales to 21MB/s.
TIA trades lower than Arbitrum and Optimism as L1 premium erodes across the market.
Ethereal DEX collaborates with Ethena Labs to bring perpetual trading products to the platform.
The last scheduled $TIA token unlocks for investors and team members land today.
Six high-performance onchain trading venues (Bullet, Hibachi, VEX, RISE, Ethereal, XO Market) are building on the platform for low-latency trading with 6-second finality and 200k TPS bandwidth. The mainnet celebrates its second anniversary today.
Governance proposal #7 is live for voting, proposing to update the min_signed_per_window parameter to 0.001 to align validator behavior across all networks and reflect new block finalization logic that finalizes blocks once 2/3 precommits are reached.
32MB blocks go live on Mocha testnet, representing the next throughput increase post-Matcha and paving the way to 128MB blocks for high-bandwidth applications.
TIA down -77.68% year-to-date, the worst performer among listed assets including major altcoins, stocks, and indices.
Sovereign SDK integrates with Celestia for onchain trading infrastructure, delivering 1.2ms latency, sequencer redundancy, and support for 200k+ TPS.
The Match Upgrade goes live on October 31, 2025, introducing any-token bridging capability to the protocol.
Linear daily token unlocks of over $1 million per day are scheduled for TIA in the next 7 days according to Tokenomist.
RISE chain integrates Celestia for data availability, featuring 10 gigagas throughput (up to 100k TPS) with recent funding at $200M FDV.
Celestia founders invested in Vistara Labs ($vist).
Ethena's perpetuals decentralized exchange launches using Celestia as the underlying data availability layer for high-performance trading.
EtherealDEX mainnet alpha launches as a new decentralized spot and perpetuals exchange built on Arbitrum using Celestia as the underlying data availability layer.
Celestia's Matcha upgrade raises the maximum throughput cap to approximately 64x Solana's current average daily throughput.
XO Market, a prediction market platform featuring AI-powered resolution and permissionless market creation, launches soon on Celestia's data availability layer.
Daily token unlocks for TIA continue through Oct 19-25 week with increased supply hitting Thursday and Friday.
Noble develops stablecoin applications using Celestia as the underlying data availability layer.
Bitwise launches Celestia Staking ETF on Euronext Paris exchange, providing institutional access to TIA staking yields through a traditional financial product.
Two CLOB (Central Limit Order Book) appchains, BulletXYZ and Hibachi XYZ, use Celestia as their data availability layer for cost-sensitive onchain trading applications.
Celestia DA achieves 2ms soft confirmation finality with Sovereign SDK and 6s hard L1 finality, claiming 100x faster performance than closest DA competitor for DEX development.
TIA stakers qualify for Monad airdrop rewards according to community reports.
TIA ranks as the #3 top daily crypto gainer on October 14, 2025 according to CoinMarketCap data.
The network processes over 3 TB of blockspace and 32.2 billion transactions, maintaining an average of 523 TPS since launch in October 2023.
TIA experiences flash crash below $0.25 on Binance during recent market dump, while maintaining a floor around $0.80 on Osmosis DEX, demonstrating extreme price volatility and significant liquidity differences between centralized and decentralized exchanges.
Upcoming Matcha network upgrade announced, featuring Proof of Governance and changes to token-economic landscape.
TIA will experience major linear token unlocks exceeding $1 million per day over the next 7 days according to Tokenomist data.
Active users increased by 93.6% over 7 days, ranking among the top 10 projects by user growth.
A final token unlock is potentially scheduled for November according to community speculation, though this remains unconfirmed. Additionally, O'Ruggin Trail game announces plans to use Celestia infrastructure for their upcoming mainnet launch alongside Starknet.
Airdrops have been distributed to TIA stakers, with community members expressing disappointment over the low value received.
Project advisors have reportedly finished extracting their holdings and moved to Zcash, indicating potential insider selling activity.
TIA stakers are expected to receive an airdrop imminently based on community discussion, though the magnitude remains speculative.
A trader publicly accuses TIA of following a scam playbook involving fake metrics, locked supply, market maker manipulation, and TWAP dumping to farm retail investors while enriching VCs and early backers.
Bullet announces they are building their Perps CLOB on Celestia, citing DA scalability as key for handling thousands to tens of thousands of orders per second.
TIA faces major linear token unlocks exceeding $1 million per day over the next 7 days as part of broader market unlocks totaling over $773 million.
Plasma airdrop is being distributed to TIA stakers.
Noble's AppLayer, an EVM rollup powered by Celestia, has gone live on devnet with 100ms block times and full composability.
Bullet, a CEX-grade derivatives rollup for Solana, integrates Celestia for cheap data availability as part of its tech stack alongside Solana settlement and ZK proofs.
The upcoming Matcha upgrade will scale throughput to 200k TPS, with additional roadmap developments targeting millions of TPS for global finance applications.
Noble announces they are close to launching their AppLayer, an EVM rollup that will use Celestia for Data Availability services.
Hyperlane integration goes live for TIA, breaking previous limitations to IBC chains and enabling access to Ethereum and Solana ecosystems for expanded trading and DeFi applications.
Research indicates TIA tokenomics could shift to deflationary post-Proof of Governance upgrade, with minimal 0.25% annual issuance making deflationary status achievable through DA fees alone.
Milkyway's liquid staking token milkTIA has accumulated $3.27M in staked assets, demonstrating growing adoption of liquid staking solutions.
An airdrop related to the project is reportedly about to happen on the Base blockchain network.
TIA faces major linear token unlocks exceeding $1 million per day over the next 7 days as part of broader crypto unlock schedule totaling $790 million.
Long positions on TIA currently carry 100% annualized funding costs, indicating extreme bearish positioning or low long demand in derivatives markets.
Sovereign SDK rollups deployed on the network currently achieve 6-second finality, with upcoming consensus mechanism upgrades expected to reduce this to approximately 300 milliseconds.
Celestia is being utilized as a data layer infrastructure for Bitcoin applications (₿apps) through Citrea's ecosystem, enabling unlimited scaling for Bitcoin use cases.