Celestia

What is Celestia?

Celestia is a pioneering modular data availability network, designed to address the challenges of scalability and accessibility in public blockchains. Instead of adhering to the traditional single-layered architecture employed by monolithic blockchain networks, Celestia employs a modular approach, compartmentalizing tasks into distinct layers.

With Celestia, the Consensus and Data Availability layers are distinct from the Execution Layer, allowing for enhanced efficiency and adaptability. This design ensures that applications benefit from Celestia's robust security features. Moreover, it facilitates the upgrade of applications without necessitating hard forks in the main chain.

A central feature of Celestia is its advanced Data Availability Layer, which introduces innovations like Data Availability Sampling (DAS) which ensures that transaction data is both accessible and verifiable.

This design not only elevates the scalability prospects for Web3 applications but also offers developers an avenue to customize their projects as per their needs.

TIA is Celestia networks’s native cryptocurrency with a hard-capped supply of one billion tokens.

What is Celestia staking?

Staking is a great way for long-term crypto investors to earn passive income on their Proof-of-Stake cryptocurrency assets (such as TIA) while taking part in securing the network.

Stakers, by delegating tokens to validators, give voting rights to these to validate transactions on the blockchain and propose new blocks. The more stake is attributed to a validator, the more it will be able to take part in the network consensus and earn rewards for its stakers.

A quick example: Suppose a blockchain network offers a 5% reward rate for a staking period of 1 year (5% APR). You decide to lock up and stake 100 tokens on the network. After a year, you can access your staked tokens, and you receive 5 additional tokens as your reward – minus eventual fees charged by the staking provider.

Staking Proof-of-Stake (PoS) cryptocurrencies such as TIA does not require stakers to transfer their token to validators. It is a non-custodial process.

Why is Stakin a great choice for Celestia staking?

Staking your assets on your own is operationally challenging as it requires specialist expertise to set up nodes and ensure constant uptime to maximize rewards or prevent so-called slashing: partial loss of your staked cryptocurrencies due to prolonged downtime, or inappropriate/malicious behavior by the node operator.

Stakin is an excellent choice for staking your Celestia (TIA) tokens, as we have a strong expertise and track record of reliable operations on this network. Stakin has been a Celestia operator since 2022 (testnets) and genesis Mainnet operator since 2024.

There are several advantages when staking your TIA tokens with Stakin, such as:

• Triple AAA-rated institutional staking provider by Staking Rewards

• ISO 27001 certified staking provider

• Tracking dashboard, to easily track and generate reports for the performance of your staked assets

• Reliable infrastructure - We distribute our servers across various geographical locations and partner with premier bare metal and cloud providers

• RPC nodes and IBC Relayers connecting the IBC ecosystem of networks together (as a community contribution)

• Dedicated support for all your staking, unstaking, and network-related questions

• Institutional grade SLAs with uptime and slashing guarantees

What kind of institutional services does Stakin offer for Celestia (TIA) Staking?

As an institutional-grade Celestia node operator, Stakin has a full range of staking services and advantages to cater to the needs of enterprises and investors, such as asset managers, company treasuries, exchanges, VCs and hedge funds, wallets, custodians, and liquid staking services.

• Institutional grade SLAs with 99.5%+ uptime guarantees and slashing guarantees, which covers both Celestia validator and Celestia bridge infrastructure.

• Integration with custodians, such as Fireblocks (via raw signing)

• Dedicated Account Manager to answer all your technical and commercial questions

• Information about potential airdrops that you may be eligible for by staking with us so that stakers can maximize your staking yield

• Custom integrations and solutions such as custom performance reporting via API or CSV with the possibility to match your backend requirements

• Whitelabel and dedicated nodes with dedicated infrastructure which can be deployed in your preferred region to fit decentralization or compliance needs

• Automated commission and reward management with clear reporting

• 24/7 monitoring and alerting with a private dashboard for dedicated and whitelabel nodes

• Free premium access to Stakin Dashboard which includes staking data visualization across any validator and premium historical data features (on selected networks)