Modular blockchain Celestia has announced that its airdrop is now live. A total of 7,579 developers and 576,653 on-chain addresses will have the opportunity to join Celestia starting from the first block. Eligible participants can claim up to 60 million TIA (Celestia's native asset) before October 17, 2023, at 20:00 UTC. The total supply of TIA is one billion.
The airdrop will also be distributed to those who are building the early modular ecosystem. This includes public contributors to other modular DA layers currently under development, such as Avail and Eigenlayer, as well as Solana, who actively participated in Modular Summit I and II.
The airdrop is divided into three parts: Research and public goods, with a total allocation of 20 million TIA for early builders of the modular ecosystem; early adopters of Ethereum rollups, with another 20 million TIA allocated; and stakers and IBC relayers on the Cosmos Hub and Osmosis, with a combined allocation of 20 million TIA.
TIA is a crucial component for developers building the first modular data availability network. To achieve data availability (DA) using Celestia, rollup developers submit PayForBlobs (PFB) transactions on the network and charge a fee, denominated in TIA.
The eligibility addresses for the Celestia airdrop have been filtered to exclude addresses previously identified as “witch” addresses during the Hop and OP airdrops. Additionally, a new witch detection framework provided by the Web3 security infrastructure Trusta Labs has been added. This framework identifies Ethereum and rollup addresses based on its recognition of on-chain clustering behavior and asset transfer patterns, marking these addresses as likely candidates for witch accounts.