TIA · three taps still running, and nothing on the other side of the ledger.
TIA is the staking and gas token of Celestia, a modular data-availability Layer 1 — 961.7M circulating out of 1.18B in existence, with no cap on how many there can ever be.
Sell pressure. About 37.6M TIA reached the market in 90 days. Only 6.6M of that is newly created — the other 31M is old supply coming out of vesting, and most of it has no lock contract holding it.
Buy pressure. Zero, on all four rows. Nothing burns TIA, nothing buys it back, and stakers were unlocking rather than locking.
- Core-contributor vesting finishes~6.9M TIAOct 30 2026 · added to market
- Yearly issuance step-down2.33% → 2.18%Oct 31 2026 · removed from market
Celestia pays its stakers out of a fixed yearly allowance of 26.87M TIA, which works out to about 73,554 TIA a day and 2.33% a year. The chain's own supply counter rose by exactly that much between the two ends of the quarter. On Oct 31 2026 the allowance is cut by 6.7% and the daily figure drops to roughly 70,326.
One vesting cohort is still paying: 20 locked accounts holding 82.87M TIA that release evenly at 113,516 TIA a day. It is a real on-chain lock, so nothing can vest on paper and stay stuck — the scheduled and the released figures are the same number. The cohort empties on Oct 30 2026 and pays nothing after that.
The largest stream on the page, and the one with no lock contract behind it. Celestia's published rules release the ecosystem allocation at 183,493 TIA a day until Oct 30 2027, plus a further 47,580 TIA a day of core-contributor supply that sits in Foundation-run accounts rather than in the on-chain lock. Still watched behind it: ~78.37M TIA of the ecosystem tranche, ~2.95M of the un-escrowed slice, ~126M that has technically unlocked but is not yet counted as circulating, and a 3.53M community pool that only a vote can spend.
No bankruptcy estate and no court-supervised distribution exists. Celestia is a going concern with no trustee holding TIA on a release schedule.
There is no buyback contract and no repurchase mandate. A proposal to route network revenue into buying and burning TIA has been discussed for a year and has still never reached an on-chain vote.
Nothing destroys TIA. There is no burn address and no destroy instruction, and fees are paid out to stakers with a 2% slice going to the community pool. The quarter's supply growth matched the issuance allowance to within 0.009%, which leaves no room for anything to have been burned.
Sporadic — last firing Jul 24 2025, when the Foundation bought 43.45M TIA from an early backer for $62.5M and passed it to new investors on a phased release that ended Nov 14 2025. No public schedule for next 90 days.
Staking absorbed nothing this quarter — the opposite. Bonded TIA fell from 508.66M to 480.29M while unbonding supply rose from 16.35M to 39.68M, so stake was leaving the lock, not entering it.
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