As of October 25, 2026, Celestia's TIA trades at about $0.53. That is down 18.9% over seven days, with a market capitalisation of about $522 million (CoinGecko). The rally in the week to September 8, 2026 has not held through late October. The biggest project news since then came from Celestia itself. On October 1, 2026, it published a benchmark showing its Fibre data-availability system sustaining 3.07 Tb/s in a test run.
Where TIA stands now (October 25, 2026)
CoinGecko data for October 25, 2026:
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Price | $0.5295 |
| 24-hour change | -1.6% |
| 7-day change | -18.9% |
| Market cap | about $521.9M |
| Market cap rank | #108 |
| Circulating supply | about 985.5M TIA |
| Total supply | about 1.18B TIA |
| All-time high | $20.85 (February 10, 2024) |
| All-time low | $0.2792 |
TIA is about 97.5% below its all-time high. It is about 90% above its all-time low. DefiLlama gives the same $20.85 peak on February 10, 2024. Other data providers put the peak between roughly $20.78 and $21.14, depending on venue and time zone.
The last ten days in daily closes
CoinGecko's daily data shows the slide in detail:
| Date (2026) | Close | Market cap | 24h volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16 | $0.6878 | $578.9M | $113.3M |
| Oct 17 | $0.6457 | $675.2M | $264.7M |
| Oct 18 | $0.6358 | $634.2M | $182.5M |
| Oct 19 | $0.6152 | $624.7M | $112.2M |
| Oct 20 | $0.6239 | $604.7M | $88.4M |
| Oct 21 | $0.5995 | $613.6M | $126.0M |
| Oct 22 | $0.5586 | $589.8M | $94.0M |
| Oct 23 | $0.5373 | $549.8M | $86.2M |
| Oct 24 | $0.5339 | $529.0M | $62.8M |
From the October 16 close to the October 24 close, TIA fell about 22%. Volume peaked on October 17 at $264.7M, then trailed off as the price kept falling.
Project news since September 8
Fibre benchmark: 3.07 Tb/s (October 1, 2026)
Celestia's blog reported an end-to-end Fibre test across 120 validators, each running on its own cloud machine. With Fibre, blob data goes straight to validators. In Celestia's words, the chain "only records a commitment to that data and the validators' signatures." The client posts that commitment onchain once validators holding two-thirds of the voting power have signed.
The reported results:
- Sustained throughput: 3.07 Tb/s averaged over a 143-second load window. The best 60 seconds reached 3.69 Tb/s and the best 30 seconds 4.27 Tb/s.
- What was counted: only blob data confirmed onchain. Recovery pieces and distribution traffic were excluded.
- Confirmation time: 2.2 seconds on average.
- Test settings: 2 GiB blobs, 1-second blocks and up to 2,000 Fibre submissions per block. The test ran on an experimental performance branch.
- Earlier result: a partial benchmark earlier in 2026 reached 1 Tb/s.
Celestia also said what the test does not show. Mainnet will use 128 MiB blobs, not 2 GiB. Several benchmark settings will not ship in the first mainnet release. The plan is to launch "with capacity matched to early demand" and scale from there. The post gives no mainnet date.
Integration case study (October 23, 2026)
On October 23, 2026, Celestia's blog published a case study about an onchain options trading venue that uses Celestia for data availability. The benchmark and the case study came out in the same weeks as the price decline. Neither reverses it.
TIA's nine-day slide, close by close
How did TIA's daily close move from October 16 to October 24, 2026?
Data table
| Item | USD | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 16 | 0.6878 | |
| Oct 17 | 0.6457 | |
| Oct 18 | 0.6358 | |
| Oct 19 | 0.6152 | |
| Oct 20 | 0.6239 | |
| Oct 21 | 0.5995 | |
| Oct 22 | 0.5586 | |
| Oct 23 | 0.5373 | |
| Oct 24 | 0.5339 |
This shows only CoinGecko's daily closes for nine days: it leaves out intraday moves, prices on other data providers, and anything after October 24, and it cannot show where the price goes next.
What TIA is used for
According to Celestia's documentation:
- Fees: rollup developers pay for data availability with "PayForBlobs transactions on the network for a fee, denominated in TIA."
- Staking: holders secure the proof-of-stake network by "delegating their TIA to a Celestia validator" and earn a share of that validator's rewards.
- Governance: stakers vote "on network parameters through governance proposals."
The genesis supply was 1,000,000,000 TIA. Issuance parameters can change through governance.
Reading perpetual funding rates
When a perpetual futures market has a positive funding rate, holders of long positions pay holders of short positions. That usually means leveraged demand is leaning long. A negative rate means the reverse. Funding is set separately on each venue and changes every settlement period. A single venue's figure, especially on a market with little open interest, says little about the wider TIA market.
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