Celestia (TIA)
Celestia ranks #41 of 484 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #114: 73 of the 113 assets ahead of it are not native coins but tokens or claims. A token is issued on a host blockchain rather than running its own; a claim stands for an asset already counted. Of the 100 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 57% are claims on other assets, 37% are tokens, 5% are memecoins and 1% are NFT collections.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | A · 64/100 · provisional, B to A |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #41 |
| Rank counting claims | #114 |
| Market capitalisation | $417M |
| Price | $0.4214 |
| Circulating supply | 990,367,878 TIA |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Proof of Stake |
| Consensus mechanism | Tendermint (CometBFT) |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
| Launch distribution | Presale |
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CoinSpectrum Grade (Source)
A — 64 out of 100, provisional (from 10 of 10 sections, 10 November 2026 build). With what is not yet measured anywhere from nothing to full marks, the score would be 61 to 67 (B to A).
| Section and criteria | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Consensus | 9.1 | average of 2 criteria |
| By leader (its largest chain's market cap) (Source) | 9.1 | Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| By family (all its chains' market cap) (Source) | 9.1 | Proof of stake: 9.1 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Supply | 7.5 | the supply scale times 0.9, and a point for a fixed cap that holds |
| Supply (21 million scores 10) | 8.3 | no fixed maximum; 990 million in circulation |
| Distribution | 6.1 | average of 3 parts |
| Holder concentration (Source) | – | Not yet measured |
| Active addresses | – | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 1.5 | 84.7% of today's supply allocated at launch to founders, a company, a foundation or investors. 1B TIA allocated at the Oct 2023 genesis (public allocation 20%, R&D/ecosystem 26.79%, Series A&B backers 19.67%, seed backers 15.90%, core contributors 17.64%), against 1,180,278,184 TIA on-chain supply (Celestia REST, 2026-10-23). source |
| Fundraising (share sold) (Source) | 6.8 | Sold by its issuer or insiders: 31.7% of supply sold. Seed (15.90%) and Series A&B (19.67%) backers bought 355.7M of the 1B genesis TIA; in September 2024 the Celestia Foundation raised $100M led by Bain Capital Crypto, with TIA trading around $5-6, so roughly 16M-20M TIA. ~373.7M / 1,180.28M on-chain supply (Celestia REST, 2026-10-23) = 31.7% (range 31.5%-31.8%). Seed and Series A&B investor rounds received 35.57% of genesis supply combined. source |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | Developer share: about 0.31% of today's supply received so far; 2% of each new block reward goes to them today. The Cosmos community pool receives 2% of all block rewards (distribution community_tax 0.02), per Celestia's docs since genesis (Oct 2023). Arithmetic: on-chain supply 1,180.28M minus 1,000M genesis = 180.28M issued; x 2% = 3.61M TIA = 0.31% of supply. source |
| Decentralisation | 5.4 | average of 4 parts |
| Governance (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No protocol party can freeze or claw back TIA or halt the chain at will. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: celestia-app and celestia-node (Apache 2.0) are developed by Celestia Labs, which employs nearly all core developers. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 5 | Gated by stake rank: only a capped set of the largest stakes produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | 6.6 | 96 active validators or block producers source |
| Security | 8.1 | 6.5 of 8 points source |
| Pool diversity (Largest pool 50% 0 to 20% 10, largest three 90% 0 to 50% 10; 2 points) | 10 | largest 12.2%, largest three 21.9% |
| Network activity (Transactions a day, 250 0, 500,000 or more 10; 2 points) | 8.3 | about 140,000 transactions a day |
| Hashrate (Own work 5, its power 1 kW 0 to 10 GW 5; 1 point) | 1 | not mined: another consensus, 1 |
| Clients (Separate code and teams 10, separate code or teams 9, a fork by the same team or a stale second 8; one client: a new version within 12 months 7, 24 months 6, none in 24 months 5, none in 48 months 3; a second in development +0.5, a second seen running +1, 8 at most with one client; chain ended 0; 1 point) | 7 | one client, latest version Oct 2026 |
| Open source (Node software) | ✓ | |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Scalability | 8.3 | average of 5 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $0.0001 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 121, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 10 | about 39,000 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 1.6 | a block every 2.85 seconds |
| Block space per 10 minutes (24 MB or more 10: the ten busiest networks' median demand, 16.4 MB, and half again for growth) | 10 | 33.6 MB limit, 7060 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 10 | 3 of 3 passed |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper abstract, §1, §2 and §11) | ✓ | CometBFT gives deterministic single-block finality with blocks of about 3 seconds. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | ✓ | Cosmos SDK pruning in celestia-app and pruned bridge/light nodes keep only recent data. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✓ | celestia-node light nodes verify headers and run data-availability sampling (mainnet since Oct 2023). |
| Privacy | 3.5 | 3.5 of 10: whitepaper privacy 3.5 of 7, extra features 0 of 3, 1 not yet researched source |
| Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10) | 10 | Any key can hold and send TIA; the Cosmos SDK bank and auth modules carry no identity check. |
| UTXO ledger (Separate outputs, change to a new address · Whitepaper §2, §9) | 0 | An account ledger: one running balance for each address, so the remainder stays at the sending address and its payments share one public history. |
| HD addresses (A new address for each payment, unlinked · Whitepaper §10) | – | |
| Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential) | 0 | No confidential transactions. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | 0 | No sender or receiver hiding. |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | 0 | CometBFT mempool gossip relays transactions directly. |
| Programmability | 2.2 | 2 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts | 0 | A data-availability chain whose state machine handles PoS and governance only; no CosmWasm or EVM in celestia-app 10. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✓ | Native Cosmos SDK multisig accounts and vesting accounts that lock funds until set times. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✗ | No hash-locked contract or HTLC module to express a swap. |
| Native DEX (Trades the coin itself, not a claim) | ✗ | No DEX found trading the coin itself: none on its own chain (DefiLlama), and not on THORChain, Maya, Chainflip, Komodo DeFi, BasicSwap, Bisq or Haveno (checked 2026-11-04). |
| Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself) | ✓ | IBC (ibc-go v8) light-client channels (over 700) plus the Hyperlane module built into celestia-app. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✗ | No NFT module or contract platform. |
| Demand | 7.1 | average of 7 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 10 | 37 exchanges |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 7 | $10,470,776 traded in 24 hours; #60 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 30, $33,335,688) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 9.6 | 6.0% of its market cap a day, median of the last 30 days |
| Order-book depth (±2% of the price ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | 9.3 | $2,507,179 within 2% of the price on 9 exchanges, 0.60% of its market cap, median of the last 15 days |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 6.6 | $417M, 6.6 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | 6.3 | futures, options and margin positions 14% of its market cap |
| Wallet support (wallets that hold it, 10 or more: 10) | 1 | its own node and wallet, counted as 1: no wallet in the site's directory lists it yet |
| Record | 7 | average of 3 criteria |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 3 | 3 full years since 2023-10-31, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, fixes, vulnerabilities) | 8 | 3 positive, 0 negative, 1 not yet researched source |
| Positive | ||
| Steady work, 6 of 6 | ✓ | 2,921 commits in 12 of the last 12 months (github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app); celestia-app v10.5.0 released 2026-10-22. |
| Shipped a scaling upgrade in two years, +1 | ✓ | Matcha (celestia-app v6), late 2025: larger blocks toward 128 MB; max_bytes now 32 MiB. |
| Shipped a new capability for users in two years, +1 | ✓ | Lotus (v4), 28 Jul 2025: native TIA interoperability via Hyperlane. |
| Not yet researched | ||
| Shipped a security fix in two years | – | |
| Conduct (origin, claims, halts) | 10 | 3 positive, 0 negative source |
| Positive record | ||
| Launched with a stated purpose, not as a joke | ✓ | |
| No claims by its founders that contradict its own design | ✓ | |
| No halt, freeze or reversal in five years | ✓ | |
Ten sections, weighted equally, each 0 to 10: consensus (the two ladders), supply (the supply scale and a fixed cap that holds), distribution (premine, fundraising, developer share, holders), decentralisation (governance, no central team, who can mint, nodes), security, scalability, privacy, programmability (what the scripting layer can do beyond the whitepaper's payment system), demand, and record (age, development, conduct). They are built from the criteria in the second table: privacy, scalability, security and decentralisation are the Cryptocurrency Standards among them, as follows: privacy (the whitepaper's three checks a base of 7 of 10, three extra features up to 3 more), scalability (four measures and three features), security (pool diversity, network activity, hashrate, clients and two checks) and decentralisation (governance, no central team, who can mint, nodes, holders, premine, fundraising and developer share); programmability (token issuance, smart contracts and five checks) follows them, and supply and demand are two: the supply, scored against 21 million, and demand, the average of seven measures of the market and the wallets. Provisional: parts marked — are not yet measured and are left out of the average. A rating of structure and market depth, not a price forecast or investment advice. How the grade is built · Highest-graded cryptocurrencies.
Proof of Stake coins
Ethereum ETHA+
BNB BNBA
Solana SOLA+
Flare FLRA
Provenance Blockchain HASHB
Sei SEIA
Tezos XTZA+All Proof of Stake chains →Proof of Work coins
Bitcoin BTCA+
Zcash ZECA+
Dogecoin DOGEA+
Monero XMRA+
Bitcoin Cash BCHA++
Litecoin LTCA+
Ethereum Classic ETCAAll Proof of Work chains →Supply
990,367,878 TIA are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
Launch and allocation
| Premine (allocated at launch) | 84.7% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Sold by the issuer or insiders | 31.7% of today's supply |
| Developer share received since launch | 0.31% of today's supply |
| Developer share of new coins today | 2% |
| Nodes or validators | 96 |
| Fundraising | Private or venture funding |
1B TIA allocated at the Oct 2023 genesis (public allocation 20%, R&D/ecosystem 26.79%, Series A&B backers 19.67%, seed backers 15.90%, core contributors 17.64%), against 1,180,278,184 TIA on-chain supply (Celestia REST, 2026-10-23).
Seed and Series A&B investor rounds received 35.57% of genesis supply combined.
Seed (15.90%) and Series A&B (19.67%) backers bought 355.7M of the 1B genesis TIA; in September 2024 the Celestia Foundation raised $100M led by Bain Capital Crypto, with TIA trading around $5-6, so roughly 16M-20M TIA. ~373.7M / 1,180.28M on-chain supply (Celestia REST, 2026-10-23) = 31.7% (range 31.5%-31.8%).
The Cosmos community pool receives 2% of all block rewards (distribution community_tax 0.02), per Celestia's docs since genesis (Oct 2023). Arithmetic: on-chain supply 1,180.28M minus 1,000M genesis = 180.28M issued; x 2% = 3.61M TIA = 0.31% of supply.
Sources: docs.celestia.org · theblock.co · celestia-rest.publicnode.com · docs.celestia.org · celestia-rest.publicnode.com. Researched 2026-10-24, medium confidence.
What a regulator has said
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
The regulator's position, reported as stated, not CoinSpectrum's. Assets nobody has ruled on are left unclassified rather than sorted by a guess.
How CoinSpectrum ranks Celestia
Celestia is #41 among cryptocurrencies and #114 in the market ranking, which lists wrapped coins, staked derivatives, stablecoins and tokens alongside them. CoinSpectrum counts an asset once, and counts only cryptocurrencies: assets with their own blockchain and their own consensus. A wrapped coin, a staked derivative or a stablecoin is a claim on something already counted; a token, memecoin or otherwise, runs on another chain's blocks. All of them are listed, each in its own section, and none is added to the total. The 73 places between Celestia's two ranks are held by claims and tokens, not by other networks. The methodology sets out the rule and the counting rule argues for it.
The price above is the median of the exchanges the site reads live, checked every minute and cross-checked against a market snapshot (how market data is gathered). The grade is scored on published criteria, each with its source (the method). The site is independent, nothing on it is a paid placement, and its statements are signed (about CoinSpectrum, the manifesto).
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