Celestia Airdrop Reveals Future Project Allocation Trends

On the evening of September 26, the modular blockchain Celestia announced an Airdrop of 60 million TIA tokens, involving 7,579 developers and 576,653 active addresses. Eligible users must complete the claim by 20:00 on October 17.

Celestia has received multiple rounds of significant financing, with participation from well-known institutions such as Maven 11 Capital, NFX, Bain Capital, and Polychain Capital. This airdrop is substantial, but it has not caused a frenzy in the community. Celestia places more emphasis on fairness and genuine contribution when designing its rules.

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Airdrop Distribution Plan

Celestia divides 60 million TIA into three parts:

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

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) Research and public product contributors

• 4.6 million TIA allocated to 3,838 contributors of protocol public goods and infrastructure.
• 1.4 million TIA allocated to 1947 Eth Research forum users
• 8.35 million TIA allocated to 3,371 early modular ecosystem contributors
• 1.65 million TIA allocated to 1,604 contributors who have submitted more than 4 times on GitHub.
• 4 million TIA allocated to 1210 contributors who submitted more than 23 times on GitHub

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) Ethereum rollups early adopters

According to the on-chain activity of the top 10 chains ranked by L2Beat TVL, distribute to users with wallet balances above $50:

• The top 10% of active addresses will receive 7.15 million TIA, with 78,793 addresses each getting 90 coins.
• The top 20% of active addresses will receive 4.25 million TIA, with 60,186 addresses each receiving 70 coins.
• The top 50% of active addresses will receive 8.6 million TIA, with over 170,000 addresses each receiving 50 coins.

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) Cosmos ecosystem participants

For users who stake over $75 on Cosmos Hub and Osmosis:

• The top 10% of active addresses will receive 3.25 million TIA, with 29,630 addresses each receiving 109 coins.
• The top 20% of active addresses will receive 9.25 million TIA, with over 110,000 addresses each receiving 79 coins.
• The top 50% of active addresses will receive 6 million TIA, with over 110,000 addresses each receiving 50 coins.

An additional 1.5 million TIA will be allocated to 540 IBC relays, with each receiving 2777 coins.

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Overview of Economic Model

The total supply of TIA is 1 billion tokens, with an initial inflation rate of 8%, decreasing by 10% each year until it reaches 1.5%. The uses of the token include paying network fees, gas fees, POS staking, and governance.

The initial circulating supply is 267 million tokens, with an opening circulating market value of approximately $270 million. The total market value is expected to be between Cosmos and Polkadot.

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Airdrop Strategy Evolution Trends

The Celestia airdrop this time is more inclined towards genuine technical contributors and highly active users, rather than simply distributing tokens. This reflects the project's trend of seeking more valuable contributors and users.

Future airdrops may continue to consider multidimensional indicators such as cross-chain activity and governance participation. The game between the project party and users will also become more complex.

For developers, deeper involvement in project development will provide more opportunities. Ordinary users need to maintain high activity across multiple chains to increase their chances.

Overall, Celestia's approach represents an evolution of airdrop strategies towards a more precise and valuable direction, which deserves attention from the industry.

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