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 375 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #658 (top 0.5%) among 483,944 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 8,399 posts and has been mentioned by 459 accounts a total of 1,271 times, with 367,806 followers as of August 2026 on the platform.
Celestia's portfolio includes Libp2p, L2BEAT, Modulus Labs, Modular Cloud and OpenGradient.
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The accounts that follow Celestia include 1,532 founders, 437 angel investors, 689 influencers and 80 VCs, among them Toly, Ansem, Laura Shin, Chris Burniske, CoinDesk and Andrew Kang.