CelestiaTIA

The coin of Celestia, a network where other blockchains pay to publish their transaction data.

Rank #110Since October 2023

Price on 31 Oct 2026

C$0.6723 +49.5% since 31 Jul 2026 · 97.6% below its all-time high

The short version

TIA pays fees, is staked and governs Celestia, a data-availability network: rollups pay it to publish their transaction data so anyone can check it. Celestia Labs, led by co-founder Mustafa Al-Bassam, builds it and has raised about US$155M from investors led by Bain Capital Crypto and Polychain. Fibre, a faster path that sends data straight to validators, went live on mainnet in Oct 2026. On 31 Oct 2026 one TIA cost C$0.6723. From 31 Jul 2026 to 31 Oct 2026 its price changed +49.5% in Canadian dollars, and it was 97.6% below its all-time high of C$28.13 set on 10 Feb 2024.^[1]

Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 14 sources · next update about 1 Dec 2026

Price, past year

Past year: high C$1.50 (8 Nov 2025) · low C$0.3971 (7 Apr 2026) · -45.9%^[1]

Month-end prices (table)

Date	C$	US$
31 Oct 2026	C$0.6807	US$0.4876
30 Sep 2026	C$0.6274	US$0.4407
31 Aug 2026	C$0.4502	US$0.3247
31 Jul 2026	C$0.4596	US$0.3276
30 Jun 2026	C$0.5530	US$0.3893
31 May 2026	C$0.5665	US$0.4106
30 Apr 2026	C$0.4718	US$0.3475
31 Mar 2026	C$0.4089	US$0.2942
28 Feb 2026	C$0.4380	US$0.3202
31 Jan 2026	C$0.5484	US$0.4065
31 Dec 2025	C$0.6279	US$0.4585
30 Nov 2025	C$0.8673	US$0.6183

Daily prices from CoinGecko; C$ converted at the Bank of Canada daily rate. The latest point is live when available. Past prices, not a forecast.

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Key facts

Price, 31 Oct 2026: C$0.6723^[1]
3-month change: +49.5% in C$ (31 Jul 2026 to 31 Oct 2026)^[1]
From its high: 97.6% below its high of C$28.13 (10 Feb 2024)^[1]
Market rank: #110, market value about C$663.2M^[1]
Kind: Native coin · Celestia (its own network)
Started: October 2023

Checks: the same 9 questions for every coin

Facts, not a rating

Can an admin key create new coins?NoNew TIA come only from scheduled staking issuance, about 2.17% a year from 30 Oct 2026^[2]

Can anyone freeze or take coins from holders?NoNo freeze or blacklist function found for TIA^[3]

Can the token's contract code be changed?Not applicableRuns on its own blockchain; its rules change only through network upgrades

Is the supply capped?NoNo maximum supply; staking issuance continues^[3]

Any scheduled unlocks in the next 12 months?YesFoundation R&D stream of about 66.6M TIA, 6.7% of circulating^[4]

Does a team or foundation hold over 10% of supply?YesInvestors, core contributors and the R&D fund were allocated about 48.6% of supply^[5]

Do network fees reach coin holders?YesFees go to validators and stakers, but totalled only US$35.6K in a year^{[2, 6]}

Main network hacked or halted in the past 2 years?NoNo exploit or halt of the Celestia network found^[7]

Is a regulator or court case targeting the coin itself?NoNo live regulator or court case found^[8]

Each answer is a fact with a source, not a score. What each check means.

Who controls it

Run by: Celestia Labs and the Celestia Foundation; co-founder and CEO Mustafa Al-Bassam chairs the Foundation^[9]
Funding: About US$155M: US$55M in Oct 2022 and US$100M in Sep 2024, both led by Bain Capital Crypto^{[10, 9]}
Allocation: Series A and B 11.95%, seed 9.66%, core contributors 10.71%, R&D and ecosystem 16.27%^[5]

Supply

In circulation: 987.81M TIA of 1.18B in total (83.7%)^[1]
Maximum supply: None set^[1]
Fully diluted value: 1.20 times its current market value^[1]
Supply: 987.8M circulating of 1,180.6M total; no maximum^[3]
Unlocks: Foundation R&D stream of about 183.6K TIA a day, about 66.6M (6.7%) in 12 months^[4]
New coins: Staking issuance stepped down to about 2.17% a year on 30 Oct 2026, as scheduled^[2]

Use and fees

Main use: Rollups pay TIA to publish data; Celestia carried about 27% of such data but got 12% of fees^[11]
Network fees: US$35.6K in the past year; nothing is burned or bought back^[6]
Fibre: Live on mainnet Oct 2026: about 150 MB/s, blobs up to 128 MiB, about 3-second blocks^[8]

Trading

Daily trading: About C$82.7M a day on average, 31 Jul 2026 to 31 Oct 2026^[1]
Daily turnover: Typically 11.62% of its market value changes hands each day^[1]
20-week average: 17.8% above its 20-week average price^[1]
1-year change: -48.0% in C$^[1]^[12]

History

Not a forecast

Coins ranked 51-200 at this point in past cycles (12-14 months after a Bitcoin peak), one year later: 4,050 cases, 612 coins

39% were higher a year later^[13]

Typical result: Median -25% after a year; 45% higher after two years
Lost half or more: 38% within a year
Against Bitcoin: 12% did better than Bitcoin over the year

History, not a forecast.

Red flags and things to watch

No red flags found

On 30 Oct 2026 Celestia Labs showed Voyager, a pre-production payments layer for AI agents, with no launch date.^[8]
A fee-model draft, Sustainable Blob Economy v2.0, was posted on 22 Sep 2026 and had not been put to a vote by 31 Oct.^[2]
Sources disagree on whether core-contributor unlocks ended on 30 Oct 2026; DefiLlama still models 58.9M TIA to come.^{[4, 5]}
On 24 Jul 2025 the Foundation bought Polychain's remaining 43.45M TIA for US$62.5M and resold them to new investors.^[14]

Checked: admin keys, contract upgrades, unlocks, insider supply, hacks, legal actions and claims against records.

Sources and dates

Facts as of 31 Oct 2026. Prices from CoinGecko in Canadian and US dollars; US$ figures without a C$ price are converted at 1.3976 C$ per US$.