Celestia announces an airdrop of 60 million TIA tokens

Recently, the modular blockchain Celestia announced an airdrop of 60 million TIA tokens, benefiting 7,579 developers and 576,653 active on-chain addresses. Eligible users must claim before October 17.

Celestia has previously received multiple rounds of significant financing, with well-known institutions such as Maven 11 Capital, NFX, Bain Capital, and Polychain Capital participating. This airdrop is relatively large, but there have not been many "get rich quick" cases in the community, indicating that Celestia places greater emphasis on fairness and genuine contributions when designing airdrop rules.

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Airdrop Distribution Plan

Celestia divides 60 million TIA tokens into three main categories:

1. 20 million for research, public products, and early modular ecosystems
2. 20 million to early adopters of Ethereum rollups
3. 20 million to Cosmos Hub and Osmosis stakers and IBC relayers

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) Research and ecosystem contributors

• 4.6 million to contributors of protocol public goods and infrastructure, 3,838 people are eligible.
• 1.4 million to active users of the Eth Research forum, 1947 people are eligible
• 8.35 million for early modular ecosystem contributors, 3,371 individuals meet the criteria
• 1.65 million to GitHub super contributors ### at least 4 submissions (, 1604 people meet the criteria
• 4 million to GitHub senior contributors ) at least 23 submissions (, 1210 people are eligible

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) Ethereum rollups early adopters

Active users with a wallet balance of at least 50 USD, targeting the top 10 projects ranked by TVL on L2Beat:

• The top 10% of active addresses received 7.15 million TIA, with 78,793 addresses qualifying.
• The top 20% active addresses received 4.25 million TIA, with 60,186 addresses qualifying.
• The top 50% of active addresses will receive 8.6 million TIA, with over 170,000 addresses qualifying.

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) Cosmos ecosystem users

Users who stake at least $75 towards Cosmos Hub and Osmosis:

• The top 10% of active addresses will receive 3.25 million TIA, with 29,630 addresses qualifying.
• The top 20% of active addresses will receive 9.25 million TIA, with over 110,000 addresses qualifying.
• The top 50% active addresses will receive 6 million TIA, with over 110,000 addresses qualifying.

In addition, 1.5 million TIA is allocated to 540 IBC relayer addresses.

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Economic Model

The total supply of TIA is 1 billion coins, with an inflation rate starting at 8% per year, decreasing to 1.5% over the years. TIA can be used to pay for network fees, Gas fees, staking, and governance.

Token distribution:

• 20% for the public community
• 26.8% for R&D and ecosystem
• 19.7% to Series A and B investors
• 15.9% to seed round investors
• 17.6% for early core contributors

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The initial circulation is 267 million coins, with a circulating market value of approximately 270 million USD. The total market value is expected to be between 2.5 to 5.4 billion USD.

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Evolution of Airdrop Methods

With the continuous optimization of airdrop strategies, project teams and users seeking airdrops have entered a zero-sum game phase. Project teams tend to allocate airdrops to genuine technical contributors and active users, rather than accounts that manipulate data for airdrops.

Future airdrops may focus more on:

1. Actual contributors to blockchain technology and project development
2. Addresses with high cross-chain activity
3. Addresses participating in governance, donations, and other activities
4. Addresses with high main chain activity

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Overall, airdrops are shifting from simply distributing coins to seeking real contributors and active users in order to maximize the value of the airdrop. For regular users, it may be necessary to remain actively engaged across multiple ecosystems in the future to qualify for airdrops.

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