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Celestia is the world's first modular data availability (DA) network, a purpose-built blockchain that does exactly one thing: it makes transaction data available and verifiable for other chains, without handling execution or settlement itself.
That single-function design is a radical departure from traditional "monolithic" blockchains like Ethereum or Solana, which bundle transaction execution, consensus, data availability, and settlement into a single layer. Celestia's thesis, pioneered by its co-founders Mustafa Al-Bassam, Ismail Khoffi, and John Adler, is that this bundling is the root cause of blockchain scalability limits and that separating these functions into specialized layers unlocks near-unlimited throughput.
In concrete terms, when a rollup or Layer 2 network posts transaction data to Celestia, it benefits from Celestia's high-throughput, low-cost data availability layer while using its own execution environment and relying on Ethereum (or another settlement layer) for finality. The result is a modular stack where each layer is optimized for its specific job rather than a monolithic system forced to compromise across all of them simultaneously.
Celestia launched on mainnet in October 2023, and by mid-2026 it has become the foundational DA layer for 35+ active rollups, commands approximately 50% of the data availability market, and has processed over 160 GB of rollup data with daily blob fees growing 10x since late 2024. Every major rollup framework, Arbitrum Orbit, OP Stack, and Polygon CDK, now offers Celestia as a native DA option.
The native token, TIA, funds the network's data posting fees (blobspace), secures the chain through proof-of-stake, and governs protocol parameters through on-chain governance.
TIA price: $0.40
Market cap: $355–373 million
Fully Diluted Valuation (FDV): $468 million
Circulating supply: 934 million TIA
Total supply at genesis: 1 billion TIA
Staking APY: 8–15% (peaked at 14.67% in May 2026)
Max active validator set: 100
Unbonding period: 14 days (reduced from 21 via Matcha upgrade)
Rollups using Celestia: 35+ (with all major frameworks Arbitrum Orbit, OP Stack, Polygon CDK)
DA market share: 50%
Block size (post-Matcha): Up to 128 MB
Annual inflation (post-Lotus): 5.0% (floor target: 1.5%)
The most critical data point is the market cap relative to infrastructure impact: at $373M, TIA is the governance token for a network that powers dozens of production rollups, has processed hundreds of gigabytes of rollup data, and holds roughly half the DA market, a positioning that many analysts in 2026 describe as severely underpriced relative to the protocol's fundamental role in Ethereum's scaling stack.
To understand Celestia's value proposition, you need to understand the core problem with monolithic blockchains and why modularity matters.
Traditional blockchains like Ethereum's base layer force every node to:
Execute every transaction
Reach consensus on the global state
Store and serve all transaction data
Settle the final state
Each of these functions has different hardware and bandwidth requirements. When you bundle them together, the most constrained function determines the entire system's throughput. Ethereum's base layer, optimized for decentralization and security, has historically processed 15–30 transactions per second a severe bottleneck that spawned the entire rollup ecosystem.
Celestia's architecture separates the blockchain stack into specialized layers:
Data Availability Layer (Celestia): Ensures that all transaction data is published and available for anyone to download and verify
Execution Layer (rollups/L2s): Processes transactions and computes state transitions
Settlement Layer (Ethereum or sovereign chains): Provides finality and resolves disputes
By focusing exclusively on data availability, Celestia can optimize its entire design around that single function, achieving far higher throughput for data storage than any monolithic chain could provide while sharing that infrastructure cost across dozens of rollups simultaneously.
The practical result: rollups using Celestia for data availability reduce their data posting costs by up to 95% compared to posting directly to Ethereum, a cost advantage that translates directly into lower transaction fees for end users.
When a rollup posts transaction data to Celestia, it does so in the form of blobs, binary large objects that contain batches of transaction data. Celestia's blocks are organized to efficiently store these blobs, and the network charges fees in TIA per unit of blobspace consumed.
Unlike Ethereum's calldata or EIP-4844 blobs (which are pruned after a short window), Celestia's design is optimized for high-volume, low-cost blob storage as its primary function. It is the dedicated blob posting layer, not a general-purpose execution environment that also happens to store data.
The most technically distinctive aspect of Celestia is Data Availability Sampling (DAS), the mechanism that allows Celestia to scale block sizes without sacrificing verifiability for low-powered nodes.
The problem DAS solves is fundamental: if blocks get large, not every node can download the full block to verify that data was published. Traditional systems handle this by keeping blocks small enough for all nodes to download everything, which limits throughput. Celestia breaks this trade-off through DAS:
When a block is produced, the block data is encoded using a 2D Reed-Solomon erasure coding scheme, creating a redundant extended matrix of the original data
Light nodes perform multiple rounds of random sampling, requesting small, random chunks of the block from the network
Through cryptographic guarantees, if a light node successfully samples enough random chunks, it achieves a statistically near-certain confidence (e.g., 99%+) that the full block data is available without ever downloading the complete block
Because each light node samples randomly and independently, a network of many light nodes collectively verifies the entire block, distributing the work across the network
Why this is transformative: As more light nodes join the network and sample data, Celestia can safely increase block sizes without requiring any single node to download more data. More light nodes sampling means larger safe block sizes and higher throughput. This creates a feedback loop where network growth directly enables protocol scaling, the opposite of most blockchains, where network growth increases load on every full node.
Blobstream (formerly the Quantum Gravity Bridge) is the protocol that makes Celestia's DA layer natively accessible to Ethereum-based Layer 2 solutions. It works by relaying Celestia's data root commitments to an on-chain light client contract on Ethereum, allowing L2s to post their data to Celestia while proving to Ethereum smart contracts that the data was made available.
The latest version, SP1 Blobstream, uses zero-knowledge proofs to generate a succinct cryptographic proof that sufficient Celestia validators reached consensus on a block header, verified on Ethereum in a single transaction. This eliminates the latency and gas cost of older bridge designs and makes Celestia's DA layer practically accessible for any EVM rollup team.
For Ethereum-based L2s, the integration workflow is: post transaction blobs to Celestia → receive inclusion proof → submit compressed proof to Ethereum via Blobstream → achieve Ethereum security for settlement with Celestia-level costs for data.
Celestia's light nodes are qualitatively different from light clients on traditional blockchains. Standard blockchain light clients verify block headers but cannot detect data withholding — a critical attack vector where a block producer publishes a valid header but withholds the underlying data, preventing fraud proofs from being generated.
Celestia's light nodes, empowered by DAS, can actively verify data availability — not just accept header validity. This means that even a consumer laptop or mobile device running a Celestia light node contributes meaningfully to network security, not just observes it. The practical implication: Celestia's validator set doesn't need to be as large as Ethereum's to be secure, because the security guarantee comes from the aggregate sampling of thousands of light nodes, not just from the validators themselves.
TIA is the native token of the Celestia network. It serves three functions:
Gas token for blobspace: Rollups and other applications pay fees in TIA to post data blobs to Celestia's blocks. As the number of rollups and the volume of on-chain activity they generate grows, demand for TIA as a gas token scales proportionally.
Staking and network security: TIA holders can stake their tokens (directly as validators or by delegating to existing validators) to participate in Celestia's proof-of-stake consensus. Stakers earn inflationary TIA rewards and a share of blobspace fee revenue.
Governance: TIA holders vote on on-chain governance proposals, including critical protocol parameters like block size limits, inflation rates, and network upgrades. Celestia's governance has been notably active, with major upgrades including Matcha and Lotus originating from community governance votes.
Genesis supply: 1,000,000,000 TIA (1 billion)
Annual inflation: Started at 8%, decreasing by 10% per year until reaching a floor of 1.5% annually
Post-Lotus inflation rate: 5.0% annually (as of mid-2025)
Community pool: 2% of all block rewards flow to a community-controlled pool, used for ecosystem grants and development
Validator set: Maximum of 100 active validators, selected by delegated stake
Unbonding period: 14 days (reduced from 21 days via the Matcha upgrade)
Staking APY: 8–15% annually, with peak of 14.67% in May 2026
TIA's initial distribution at genesis included allocations to the core development team, early investors (including Polychain Capital, Bain Capital Crypto, and others), and a substantial community/ecosystem reserve. A notable development in 2025 was the Celestia Foundation's acquisition of Polychain Capital's remaining 43.45 million TIA position for $62.5 million, removing a significant potential source of market-facing sell pressure and redistributing those tokens to new investors through a phased unlock schedule.
Celestia's most important adoption metric is not price or market cap; it is the number and quality of production rollups posting data to its network. As of mid-2026:
Rollup frameworks with native Celestia support:
Arbitrum Orbit: Enables Arbitrum-based chains to use Celestia as an alternative DA layer, reducing the cost of running an Orbit chain for projects that prioritize cost efficiency over Ethereum-native DA
OP Stack: Celestia support within the OP Stack allows Optimism ecosystem chains to post data to Celestia rather than Ethereum, with the option to retain Ethereum for settlement
Polygon CDK: Polygon's Chain Development Kit includes Celestia as a DA option for chains built within the Agglayer ecosystem
Multiple production rollups across DeFi, gaming, infrastructure, and payments have chosen Celestia as their DA layer, drawn by the combination of sub-cent fees, high throughput, and growing institutional confidence in the infrastructure.
Posting data to Celestia costs approximately 64% less than posting equivalent data to Ethereum, and the gap widens further at higher throughput. For rollups handling significant volume, the annual fee savings can amount to millions of dollars savings that translate directly into lower gas fees for end users.
The data availability sector is competitive. Celestia faces two primary challengers:
Backed by EigenLayer and deeply integrated with Ethereum's restaking ecosystem, EigenDA offers approximately 15 MB/s throughput — significantly higher than Celestia's current live throughput. However, EigenDA operates more like a Data Availability Committee (DAC) than a publicly verifiable blockchain: end users rely on economic guarantees (validator slashing via EigenLayer) rather than direct verifiability. This trust assumption is a meaningful architectural difference for rollup teams prioritizing maximum decentralization.
Avail combines DAS-style sampling with KZG polynomial commitments and validity proofs, offering a middle ground between Celestia's pure DAS approach and EigenDA's restaking model. Avail's current throughput (~0.2 MB/s) is lower than both Celestia and EigenDA, but its validity proof approach offers stronger guarantees in certain adversarial models.
The emerging consensus is that DA layers are not competing in a winner-take-all market but are crystallizing around distinct use cases. Celestia owns the decentralization-first, sovereign rollup segment; EigenDA owns the Ethereum-native, high-throughput segment; Avail targets multichain environments. Each has defensible positioning, but Celestia's first-mover advantage, production track record, and DAS-based scalability model give it structural durability that later entrants are finding difficult to dislodge.
Execution risk is offloaded, not eliminated: Celestia's DA layer is secure, but rollups using Celestia for DA are only as safe as their own execution environments. A bug in an OP Stack rollup using Celestia does not affect Celestia itself but does affect users of that rollup.
Ethereum's own DA evolution: Ethereum's EIP-4844 (proto-danksharding) and the forthcoming Fusaka upgrade will significantly expand Ethereum's native blob capacity. If Ethereum's own blobs become cheap enough, some rollups may choose Ethereum-native DA rather than external solutions, reducing demand for Celestia's blobspace.
Inflation and dilution: TIA's inflation rate (currently 5% annually) generates ongoing sell pressure from staking rewards. While inflation decreases 10% per year toward the 1.5% floor, near-term dilution is a headwind for non-staking TIA holders.
Validator concentration: As of mid-2026, approximately 23 validators collectively hold 50% of all delegated TIA, a concentration that raises governance and security questions. Mitigating this requires active delegator participation in distributing stake across a broader validator set.
Token price vs. fee revenue disconnect: Celestia's fee revenue has grown 10x since late 2024, but the TIA token trades approximately 97% below its all-time high of $21. The fee-to-price gap is the defining analytical challenge for TIA in 2026: determining whether it reflects fundamental undervaluation or structural market dynamics that won't resolve quickly.
Staking TIA is one of the primary ways to earn passive income from the Celestia network. The process:
Acquire TIA on a major exchange (Binance, Coinbase, OKX, Kraken, etc.)
Transfer to a self-custody wallet compatible with Cosmos SDK chains (Keplr, Leap, or Cosmostation are the most commonly used)
Connect to the Celestia network (Chain ID: celestia)
Choose a validator from the active set of up to 100 validators; consider factors like commission rate, uptime history, and total stake to avoid over-centralization
Delegate TIA to your chosen validator through the wallet interface
Earn rewards proportional to your delegated stake, paid in TIA at the current inflation rate
Key staking parameters to know:
Staking rewards are no longer automatically claimed (post-Lotus upgrade); users must manually claim, giving more control over tax timing
Unstaking requires a 14-day unbonding period (no rewards during this window)
Validator commission fees are deducted before rewards reach delegators
Governance participation is available to all stakeholders directly through wallet interfaces
The Matcha upgrade, activated on Celestia's mainnet in November 2025, is the single most impactful technical event in the protocol's post-launch history. It delivered four changes simultaneously:
128MB blocks (from 8MB): The core throughput upgrade increased the maximum block size by 16x, from 8 megabytes to 128 megabytes. This is not simply a parameter change: it required a new high-throughput block propagation mechanism (CIP-38) to safely distribute 128MB blocks across the network within the block time without introducing propagation delays that could cause validator timeouts or chain instability.
High-throughput block propagation (CIP-38): The new propagation mechanism, developed specifically for the Matcha upgrade, uses optimized peer-to-peer data distribution that allows Celestia to sustain 128MB blocks without degrading block times or increasing orphan rates. This is the technical enabler that makes the block size increase viable at scale.
Reduced unbonding period (CIP-37): Validators and delegators previously needed to wait 21 days after initiating an unstake before their TIA was returned to liquid form. Matcha reduced this to 14 days and 1 hour, a meaningful improvement for capital efficiency, particularly for institutional stakeholders managing liquidity requirements.
Inflation reduction via Proof-of-Governance (PoG): Matcha introduced Proof-of-Governance as a framework for connecting network participation to token issuance, cutting annual inflation from 5% to 2.5% in the immediate term with a path toward further reduction. This was accompanied by CIP-39, which removed the token filter on the bridging layer, enabling a broader range of assets to move across Celestia's cross-chain infrastructure.
The market response to Matcha was notable: TIA's price rose sharply on announcement and activation, with analysts highlighting the combination of higher throughput (expanding the rollup TAM) and lower inflation (reducing sell pressure) as a doubly bullish configuration for TIA holders.
The Lotus upgrade, Celestia's v4 mainnet release, addressed two issues that had weighed on TIA holders and ecosystem builders simultaneously: inflation-driven dilution and the inability to use TIA natively across other chains.
33% inflation reduction: Lotus cut TIA's annual inflation rate from approximately 7.2% to 5.0% through CIP-29, a 33% reduction in the rate of new TIA entering circulation. This reduction is compounding in effect at 5.0% inflation on the current supply, far fewer new tokens reach the market per year than under the prior 7.2% rate, reducing the structural sell pressure that has been one of TIA's persistent headwinds.
The upgrade also changed how staking rewards are distributed: automatic reward claiming was disabled, giving stakers explicit control over when their rewards are recognized. This change has practical benefits for active stakers managing tax obligations across jurisdictions. Reward income is now recognized only when intentionally claimed rather than continuously accruing to the wallet.
Native Hyperlane integration for cross-chain TIA: The most strategically significant change in Lotus was the integration of Hyperlane directly as a Cosmos SDK module, the first time a cross-chain messaging protocol has been embedded at the module level in a major Cosmos-based chain. This integration enables native TIA transfers directly to and from over 100 networks, including Ethereum mainnet, Base, Arbitrum One, Optimism, and others, without relying on third-party bridge infrastructure.
For the Celestia ecosystem, this change is foundational: TIA can now flow freely across the DeFi landscape, enabling it to be used as collateral in Ethereum DeFi protocols, deposited into Arbitrum-based lending markets, or used to pay gas fees on Celestia-native rollups without requiring wrapped or bridged versions. The elimination of bridge trust assumptions for cross-chain TIA transfers is a major security improvement and a meaningful UX upgrade for TIA holders navigating the multi-chain landscape.
In one of the most notable capital market events in Celestia's history, the Celestia Foundation purchased the entirety of Polychain Capital's remaining TIA position 43.45 million tokens for $62.5 million in a privately negotiated transaction.
The deal was structured to minimize market disruption: rather than Polychain selling its position on open markets (which could have created significant downward price pressure given the scale of the holding), the Foundation absorbed the position directly and committed to redistributing the tokens to new investors through a phased unlock schedule running from August 16 to November 14. This schedule was designed to allow orderly redistribution of governance-weight tokens to aligned, long-term holders rather than opportunistic sellers.
The market responded positively: TIA gained approximately 4% on announcement, with analysts citing the removal of a known seller overhang as improving the supply-side dynamics for TIA. More broadly, the deal demonstrated the Celestia Foundation's willingness to actively manage market structure not just protocol development as part of its mandate to ensure the network's long-term health.
The governance implications are also significant: Polychain's 43.45 million TIA represented a meaningful portion of the voting power in Celestia's on-chain governance. By redistributing these tokens to new investors rather than concentrating them in the Foundation, the deal supports the decentralization of governance participation a stated priority in Celestia's community governance philosophy.
The Hibiscus upgrade (planned for mid-2026 as Celestia's v8 network release) represents the next major evolution of Celestia's cross-chain capabilities. Building on the Hyperlane integration from Lotus, Hibiscus introduces two landmark features:
Single-signature cross-chain TIA transfers: Where Lotus required multiple transaction steps to move TIA across chains via Hyperlane, Hibiscus introduces a streamlined single-signature mechanism. A user signs one transaction, and TIA appears on the destination chain without additional confirmations or relay steps. This dramatically reduces the UX friction of cross-chain TIA usage, particularly for DeFi applications where multi-step bridging is a significant conversion drop-off point.
ZK-verified messaging to networks built on Celestia: Celestia-native rollups using Celestia for DA can send and receive messages to and from other chains using ZK proofs for message verification, meaning cross-chain communication is verifiable without trusting any intermediary and without requiring full block downloads. This enables composability between Celestia-based rollups and external chains without the security trade-offs that plague optimistic bridge designs.
The Hibiscus upgrade is positioned as the moment Celestia transitions from a siloed DA layer into an actively interconnected component of the multi-chain ecosystem where TIA flows freely, rollups communicate without bridges, and the modular stack begins to resemble a unified experience rather than a collection of isolated environments.
In early 2026, Celestia reached a significant internal milestone: the network successfully processed 1 gigabyte blocks in testing and staging environments 8x larger than the 128 MB blocks enabled by Matcha. This milestone validated the architectural path toward what Celestia is calling "abundant blockspace," a future state where data availability is so cheap and plentiful that any developer, for any use case, can publish all their data on-chain without cost being a constraint.
The longer-term roadmap hints at even more ambitious targets. Celestia's website frames its vision around "Fiber Optic Performance for Millisecond Markets" language that positions the network as targeting ultra-high throughput sufficient to bring real-time financial markets, AI agent payment streams, and high-frequency on-chain data applications to the blockchain. The eventual technical target is throughput in the terabytes-per-second range and enough blockspace to support the data demands of every market currently operating off-chain, migrated entirely to sovereign on-chain infrastructure.
The Celestia Foundation scheduled a series of community events in New York on June 24–25, 2026, coinciding with a broader period of heightened activity in the crypto ecosystem following the wave of institutional engagement triggered by the Bitcoin ETF market and the growing mainstream recognition of modular blockchain infrastructure.
The New York events reflect a broader shift in Celestia's community engagement strategy: from a developer-first, technical-audience focus toward a more inclusive format designed to reach builders, investors, and application-layer teams who may not have deeply engaged with Celestia's infrastructure pitch but are increasingly affected by DA costs in their rollup operations. Topics at community events have consistently centered on the practical value of modular DA for rollup teams' fee savings, block size availability, and the roadmap toward the abundant blockspace vision.
TIA's price trajectory in 2025–2026 is one of the more striking stories in the modular blockchain narrative. The token reached an all-time high of approximately $21 in early 2024 and by June 2026 trades at approximately $0.40, a decline of roughly 97% from its peak.
The technical and fundamental disconnect is jarring:
Daily blob fees have grown 10x since late 2024
The rollup ecosystem has expanded from handful of early adopters to 35+ production users
Major upgrades (Matcha, Lotus) have meaningfully improved the protocol's economics
The Polychain buyback removed a known supply overhang
Inflation is being systematically reduced toward the 1.5% floor
Yet the token has not recovered from the 2024 peak. Analysts in 2026 attribute this to several factors: the concentration of TIA's initial price rally in a speculative narrative cycle that outpaced actual ecosystem adoption; the persistent inflationary sell pressure from staking emissions; and the broader bear market conditions that compressed valuations across the entire crypto sector.
The counter-narrative that TIA at $0.40 with growing fee revenue, 35+ production rollups, 50% DA market share, and systematic inflation reduction represents a fundamental undervaluation has gained increasing traction as the technical development has continued uninterrupted despite the price action. Whether the market reprices TIA to reflect its utility remains the defining question for TIA holders in the second half of 2026.
Celestia occupies an unusual position in the blockchain landscape: it is simultaneously one of the most technically important protocols in production and one of the most severely discounted by the market. The infrastructure it provides, cheap, verifiable, high-throughput data availability, is not theoretical. It is actively used by 35+ rollups, reducing their operating costs by up to 95%, and its market share in the DA sector is approximately equal to that of all competitors combined.
The upgrades of 2025–2026, Matcha's 16x block size increase, Lotus's cross-chain TIA interoperability, the Polychain supply deal, and the forthcoming Hibiscus ZK messaging have systematically addressed every major critique: throughput, fee revenue, token liquidity, inflation, and cross-chain utility.
What remains is the market recognizing what the protocol has already built. For builders deploying rollups in 2026, Celestia is not a speculative bet on future adoption it is the proven, production-grade data availability layer that powers a significant fraction of Ethereum's scaling ecosystem. For TIA, the token, that utility creates a fee revenue flywheel that compounds as rollup adoption grows.
In the long arc of blockchain infrastructure development, data availability is not a peripheral concern. It is the foundational constraint on how many transactions can be processed, how cheap those transactions can be, and how many use cases can be viably brought on-chain. Celestia exists to remove that constraint, and it is further along in that mission than its current market cap suggests.
Celestia is a specialized blockchain that focuses exclusively on one job: making transaction data available and verifiable. Rather than executing transactions itself, it serves as the data storage and availability layer for rollups and other chains, which use their own execution environments and rely on Celestia to ensure their transaction data is published and accessible.
TIA is the native gas and governance token of Celestia. It is used to pay fees for posting data blobs to the network, staked by validators and delegators to secure the chain and earn inflationary rewards, and used to vote on protocol governance proposals that control parameters like block size, inflation rate, and major upgrades.
DAS is Celestia's core technical innovation, a mechanism that allows light nodes to verify that a block's data is available without downloading the entire block. Light nodes randomly sample small portions of the block; through erasure coding mathematics, if enough random samples are available, the node achieves near-certain statistical confidence that the full data is present. This allows Celestia to scale block sizes as more light nodes join the network.
Blobstream is the protocol that connects Celestia's data availability layer to Ethereum. It relays cryptographic commitments to Celestia's data roots into a light client smart contract on Ethereum, allowing Ethereum-based L2s to use Celestia for data storage while proving to Ethereum that their data was made available. SP1 Blobstream uses ZK proofs to make this verification efficient.
Ethereum is a monolithic blockchain that handles execution, consensus, data availability, and settlement in a single layer. Celestia handles only data availability, delegating execution to rollups and settlement to Ethereum or other chains. This specialization allows Celestia to offer data posting costs approximately 64% lower than Ethereum while scaling to far higher throughput at the cost of not being a general-purpose smart contract platform.
A modular blockchain is one that performs only one or two functions of the full blockchain stack (execution, consensus, data availability, settlement), rather than all functions together. Celestia is the canonical example of a modular blockchain focused on data availability. The modular thesis argues that specialization enables each layer to optimize for its specific function, producing a composable stack that outperforms monolithic alternatives.
As of mid-2026, 35+ rollups post data to Celestia. Every major rollup framework, Arbitrum Orbit, OP Stack, and Polygon CDK, offers Celestia as a DA option. Specific production rollups span DeFi, gaming, payments, and infrastructure applications.
The Matcha upgrade (November 2025) was Celestia's most significant technical upgrade to date. It increased the maximum block size from 8 MB to 128 MB (a 16x increase), reduced the validator unbonding period from 21 days to 14 days, introduced Proof-of-Governance (PoG) to slash annual inflation, and added a high-throughput block propagation mechanism to safely handle the larger block sizes.
TIA staking yields range from 8% to 15% annually in 2026 market conditions, with a peak APY of 14.67% recorded in May 2026. Actual yields depend on the total amount of TIA staked, the current inflation rate, and validator commission rates.
Celestia and EigenDA have different trust models. Celestia uses data availability sampling for publicly verifiable DA, where anyone running a light node can independently verify data availability. EigenDA uses a data availability committee model secured by Ethereum restaking, which is faster but less independently verifiable. Celestia leads in market share (50%), production rollup integrations (35+), and maximum decentralization; EigenDA leads in raw throughput (15 MB/s vs 1.33 MB/s for Celestia).
