Celestia (TIA) Exchange

About Celestia

TIA is the native token of Celestia, a modular data availability network built on Cosmos SDK and CometBFT proof-of-stake consensus that provides ordering and data availability guarantees for rollups and app-chains — without handling execution. Validators and delegators earn staking rewards for securing Celestia's consensus layer, while rollup developers pay fees denominated in TIA to post transaction data blobs to the network — not a monolithic smart contract platform, not a general-purpose Layer 1.

TIA tokenomics

Celestia uses an inflationary supply model with a declining emission schedule rather than a fixed hard cap. Genesis supply was set at 1,000,000,000 TIA, with inflation beginning at 8% annually and decreasing by 10% per year until reaching a floor of 1.5%, according to Celestia's official documentation. About 987.6 million TIA were in circulation as of October 30, 2026, according to CoinGecko, against a total supply of about 1.18 billion TIA that includes inflation since genesis. Since the Matcha upgrade went live in November 2025, annual inflation has been approximately 2.5%.
Genesis supply — 1,000,000,000 TIA; inflation above this baseline adds supply at a controlled declining rate, with a long-term floor of 1.5% annual inflation
Circulating supply — approximately 987.6 million TIA as of October 30, 2026, according to CoinGecko; the remaining locked portion releases through vesting schedules concluding in September 2027
Inflation distribution — newly minted TIA flows to validators, delegators, and the community pool; the community pool receives 2% of all block rewards, governed by TIA staker votes
Genesis allocation — split across R&D & Ecosystem, Public Allocation, Early Backers (Seed and Series A&B), and Initial Core Contributors; a single vesting event completed in April 2026, releasing 175.6 million TIA (17.2% of genesis supply) to seed investors, Series A/B participants, and core contributors
Vesting end — full vesting concludes in September 2027
Staking — all TIA, including locked tokens, may be staked; staking both secures the network and grants governance participation rights

What determines TIA's value

TIA's primary usage-driven demand comes from rollup developers paying fees to post data blobs to Celestia — each transaction batch submitted by a rollup requires a TIA-denominated payment, creating a direct link between modular blockchain adoption and token demand. Rollups across DeFi, cross-chain settlement, and real-world asset categories have deployed on top of Celestia. Each active rollup posting data generates ongoing fee demand rather than one-time token consumption, making ecosystem growth the direct mechanical driver of TIA's utility demand.

Celestia Vision 2.0 and the Fibre upgrade, announced in January 2026, targets up to 1 Tb/s of blockspace throughput — sufficient, according to Celestia's documentation, to bring every market on-chain at scale. If delivered, this raises the theoretical ceiling on the volume of rollup data that can be posted per second, and therefore the volume of TIA fees the network can absorb. The Matcha upgrade, live since November 2025, scales blocks towards 128 MB and cut annual inflation from 5% to approximately 2.5%.