Celestia is a modular L1 blockchain and data-availability network co-founded by Mustafa Al-Bassam and Nick White, built with the Cosmos SDK as a permissionless proof-of-stake network. Celestia's Twitter Score is 369 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #724 (top 0.5%) among 389,587 tracked accounts.
Celestia was co-founded by Mustafa Al-Bassam and Nick White, who serves as Co-founder and CEO of Celestia Labs, and is affiliated with the Celestia Foundation. The network raised $55 million in October 2022 in a round led by Bain Capital Crypto and Polychain Capital, and reportedly raised an additional $100 million in September 2024, again led by Bain Capital Crypto. Additional backers include Placeholder, Galaxy, Delphi Digital, Blockchain Capital, Protocol Labs, Figment, Spartan Group, Jump Crypto, Syncracy Capital, 1kx, Robot Ventures, Binance Labs, and Coinbase Ventures.
Celestia describes itself as providing fibre optic performance for millisecond markets, with the official site reporting over 20 chains running on the network. The native token, TIA, launched with a genesis total supply of 1,000,000,000 TIA and an 8% inflation rate in the first year. Celestia has published 8,537 posts and has been mentioned by 444 accounts a total of 1,245 times, with 370,355 followers as of July 2026 on the platform.
Celestia's portfolio includes L2BEAT, Modular Cloud and OpenGradient.
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The accounts that follow Celestia include 1,329 founders, 353 angel investors, 914 influencers and 121 VCs, among them Toly, Laura Shin, Ansem, CoinDesk, Chris Burniske and Andrew Kang.