Celestia

Celestia generated $3.3M in gross revenue from Dec 2023 to Apr 2026 (865 days), with $3.3M retained as net revenue. Its primary token utilities include Network Security, Staking Rewards, Staking Access, Gas Token, Ecosystem Currency, Standard 1:1, and Delegated.

This averages $$3.8K in daily gross revenue across the tracked period.

TIA accrues value through 1 mechanism: Buyback & Hold.

• Buyback & Hold: The Celestia Foundation executed a $62.5 million TIA buyback program in July 2025, purchasing 43.4 million TIA from Polychain Capital to hold in foundation treasury with a phased unlock schedule.

Yes, Celestia burns TIA tokens via Buyback & Hold.

TIA serves 7 primary functions within the Celestia ecosystem: Network Security, Staking Rewards, Staking Access, Gas Token, Ecosystem Currency, Standard 1:1, and Delegated. The protocol generates fees from user activity. Value flows back to token holders through Buyback & Hold.

Token utilities:

• Network Security: Validators and delegators stake TIA tokens to participate in Celestia's Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism based on CometBFT, securing the network with a validator set of 100.
• Staking Rewards: Stakers earn approximately 13.74% annually in TIA staking rewards from the network's inflation schedule, distributed to validators and delegators.
• Staking Access: Staking TIA to validators is required to be eligible for ecosystem airdrops — simply holding TIA is not sufficient, tokens must be actively staked.
• Gas Token: TIA is the native gas token used to pay for transactions on the Celestia network, including data availability fees for submitting blobs (blobspace).
• Ecosystem Currency: TIA serves as the primary medium of exchange across the Celestia ecosystem, used by rollup developers to bootstrap new blockchains and as collateral in DeFi, eliminating the need for projects to create their own native token.
• Standard 1:1: TIA holders (not just stakers) can propose and vote on governance proposals to change network parameters, with standard token-weighted voting.
• Delegated: Delegators express governance preferences by choosing which validators to delegate their stake to, effectively delegating governance participation through validator selection.

Value accrual mechanisms:

• Buyback & Hold: The Celestia Foundation executed a $62.5 million TIA buyback program in July 2025, purchasing 43.4 million TIA from Polychain Capital to hold in foundation treasury with a phased unlock schedule.

In 2026, Celestia generated $6.1K in gross revenue. Of that, $6.0K was retained as protocol revenue (treasury), $106 went to supply-side participants (e.g. liquidity providers).

Year-by-year revenue breakdown:

• 2026: $6.1K gross revenue — $6.0K to protocol, $106 to supply-side
• 2025: $271.6K gross revenue — $271.6K to protocol
• 2024: $1.1M gross revenue — $1.1M to protocol

Celestia's gross revenue has decreased by 74.2% over the past 90 days compared to the prior 90-day period, from $16.4K to $4.2K.

• Recent 90d daily average: $48/day
• Prior 90d daily average: $182/day