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    10/14/2025 16:00 UTC

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    Unlock Schedule

    Celestia (TIA) Token Unlock & Vesting Schedule

    The unlock chart above provides a clear visual overview of the Celestia (TIA) token release schedule, showing when and how tokens enter circulation across investor, team, treasury, and community allocations. Understanding these tokenomics dynamics is critical for evaluating potential supply pressure, inflation impact, and market liquidity over time — key factors that can influence TIA price performance.

    Each color segment in the chart corresponds to a specific allocation group described in the Allocations section below. Underlying assumptions and data models used to reconstruct this schedule are explained in detail under Assumptions, while broader utility insights and token use cases are covered in Tokenomics & Utility.

    Tokenomics & Utility

    The TIA token is central to how the Celestia blockchain works.

    What TIA is used for

    • Paying for blobspace: rollups submit PayForBlobs (PFB) transactions and pay fees in TIA.
    • Securing the network: users stake TIA to validators and can participate in governance.
    • Gas for rollups (optional): developers can choose TIA as a gas token for their rollups if they want a fast start. (blog.celestia.org)

    Supply and allocations

    Celestia launched with a genesis supply of 1 billion TIA. Allocations included a public allocation, R&D & ecosystem funds, early backers across seed and Series A/B, and initial core contributors. Unlock schedules are staggered by category over multiple years; for example, public allocation was unlocked at launch, while other categories unlock from year one onward on a defined schedule. (docs.celestia.org)

    Issuance and staking rewards

    TIA follows a disinflationary issuance schedule that has been adjusted through community proposals. The Lotus set of CIPs reduces inflation by about a third while aligning staking rewards and validator commissions. Ongoing research explores further models—such as Proof‑of‑Governance (PoG)—that could lower issuance over time while preserving security. (blog.celestia.org)

    Assumptions

    • Supply is uncapped; PoS issuance modeled from 2023-10-31 through 2033-10-30.

      Celestia has ongoing inflationary issuance (Cosmos SDK-based) with no hard cap; model limited to a 10-year horizon for charting.

    • Yearly issuance is computed using ADR-019: rate applied to total supply at year start with time-based block provisions.

      Official ADR-019 specifies time-based inflation and yearly base supply calculation.

    • CIP-29 Lotus reduced inflation by ~33% effective 2025-07-28; Year 2 split into pre/post-upgrade sub-periods using exact calendar fractions (271/365 and 94/365).

      Docs provide mainnet activation timestamp for Lotus; partial-year calculation approximated by day fractions.

    • Post-2025-07-28 issuance decreases 6.7% per year until reaching a 1.5% floor; v6/Matcha (CIP-41) not assumed active on mainnet as of 2025-10-08.

      Docs list v6 mainnet as TBD; blog indicates ‘on its way’ but not activated; thus not modeled.

    • PoS issuance shown represents total minted rewards (including 2% community pool share).

      Docs specify 2% of block rewards go to the community pool; this is part of issuance even if governance-controlled.

    • After Lotus (CIP-31), staking rewards earned by vesting accounts become subject to the same lockup; this dataset treats PoS issuance as minted supply, not tracing per-account re-locking.

      Chain-wide data on the proportion of rewards to vesting vs. unlocked accounts is not publicly consolidated; modeling granular re-locking would require on-chain account-level analysis.

    • Genesis unlock dates use 2024-10-30 for the 1-year cliffs due to leap-year note in official docs.

      Docs specify yearly intervals occur on October 30 in 2024.

    Allocations

    Public Allocation 20.00%
    98%
    How certain we are about this information
    200,000,000 tokens
    Cliff: Oct 31, 2023 — NaN% of allocation
    Fully unlocked at launch (Genesis Drop + Incentivized Testnet + Future initiatives under governance control).
    R&D & Ecosystem 26.79%
    98%
    How certain we are about this information
    267,900,000 tokens
    Cliff: Oct 31, 2023 — NaN% of allocation
    25% unlocked at launch.
    Linear vesting: Oct 30, 2024 - Oct 30, 2027 (monthly)
    Remaining 75% unlocks continuously from year 1 to year 4 (36 months).
    Initial Core Contributors 17.64%
    98%
    How certain we are about this information
    176,400,000 tokens
    Cliff: Oct 30, 2024 — NaN% of allocation
    33.33% unlocked at year 1.
    Linear vesting: Oct 30, 2024 - Oct 30, 2026 (monthly)
    Remaining 66.67% unlocks continuously from year 1 to year 3 (24 months).
    Early Backers: Seed 15.90%
    98%
    How certain we are about this information
    159,000,000 tokens
    Cliff: Oct 30, 2024 — NaN% of allocation
    33.33% unlocked at year 1.
    Linear vesting: Oct 30, 2024 - Oct 30, 2025 (monthly)
    Remaining 66.67% unlocks continuously from year 1 to year 2 (12 months).
    Early Backers: Series A&B 19.67%
    98%
    How certain we are about this information
    196,700,000 tokens
    Cliff: Oct 30, 2024 — NaN% of allocation
    33.33% unlocked at year 1.
    Linear vesting: Oct 30, 2024 - Oct 30, 2025 (monthly)
    Remaining 66.67% unlocks continuously from year 1 to year 2 (12 months).
    PoS Issuance (Staking Rewards + Community Pool share) 0.00%
    86%
    How certain we are about this information
    540,690,655 tokens
    Linear vesting: Oct 31, 2023 - Oct 30, 2024 (monthly)
    Year 1 issuance at 8.00% of supply at year start (1,000,000,000), per ADR-019 time-based schedule.
    Linear vesting: Oct 30, 2024 - Jul 28, 2025 (monthly)
    Year 2 pre-Lotus portion at 7.20% annualized of supply at year start (1,080,000,000), covering 271/365 of the year until Lotus activation on 2025-07-28.
    Linear vesting: Jul 28, 2025 - Oct 30, 2025 (monthly)
    Year 2 post-Lotus portion at ~5.00088% annualized (CIP-29) applied to supply at year start (1,080,000,000), covering remaining 94/365 of the year.
    Linear vesting: Oct 30, 2025 - Oct 30, 2026 (monthly)
    Year 3 issuance at 4.66582104% (post-Lotus schedule = previous rate × (1−6.7%)) on supply at year start (~1,151,643,434).
    Linear vesting: Oct 30, 2026 - Oct 30, 2027 (monthly)
    Year 4 issuance at ~4.35321103% on supply at year start (~1,205,377,056).
    Linear vesting: Oct 30, 2027 - Oct 30, 2028 (monthly)
    Year 5 issuance at ~4.06154589% on supply at year start (~1,257,849,663).
    Linear vesting: Oct 30, 2028 - Oct 30, 2029 (monthly)
    Year 6 issuance at ~3.78942232% on supply at year start (~1,308,937,804).
    Linear vesting: Oct 30, 2029 - Oct 30, 2030 (monthly)
    Year 7 issuance at ~3.53553102% on supply at year start (~1,358,538,985).
    Linear vesting: Oct 30, 2030 - Oct 30, 2031 (monthly)
    Year 8 issuance at ~3.29865044% on supply at year start (~1,406,570,552).
    Linear vesting: Oct 30, 2031 - Oct 30, 2032 (monthly)
    Year 9 issuance at ~3.07764086% on supply at year start (~1,452,968,393).
    Linear vesting: Oct 30, 2032 - Oct 30, 2033 (monthly)
    Year 10 issuance at ~2.87143892% on supply at year start (~1,497,685,530).

    Description

    #118

    Celestia is a modular blockchain network that allows anyone to create their own blockchain with minimal overhead and high security. It separates the consensus and execution layers and supports various execution environments such as EVM and Cosmos SDK.

    Sector: Modular
    Blockchain: Cosmos
    2023
    POS
    Last Updated: 10/8/2025 19:39 UTC
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