Airdrop Details

Information Details
Airdrop Type TIA (Native Token)
Total Airdrop Amount 60 million TIA (6% of total supply)
Number of Eligible Users 7,579 developers and 576,653 onchain addresses
Number of Claimants Not Known

Timeline

Event Date
Blockchain Snapshot January 1, 2023
Claiming Started September 26, 2023
Claiming Ends October 17, 2023, 12:00 UTC

Token Distribution

Distribution Amount
Maximum 3,305.79 TIA (for GitHub super-contributors with ≥23 commits)
Median/Average Not Known
Minimum 50.15 TIA (for lower-tier Cosmos/Osmosis stakers)

Detailed Allocation Breakdown

Research and Public Goods – 6,000,000 TIA

Criteria TIA allocation Eligible Min TIA
Contributors to protocol public goods and infrastructure 4,600,000 3,838 1,198.54
Eth Research 1,400,000 1,947 719.05

GitHub Super-Contributors – 5,650,000 TIA

Criteria TIA allocation Eligible Min TIA
Contributor, ≥ 23 total commits 4,000,000 1,210 3,305.79
Contributor, ≥ 4 total commits 1,650,000 1,604 1,028.68

Early Modular Ecosystem – 8,350,000 TIA

Criteria TIA allocation Eligible Min TIA
Early Celestia ecosystem (map v3) 8,350,000 3,371 2,477.01

Early Adopters of Ethereum Rollups – 20,000,000 TIA

Criteria TIA allocation Eligible Min TIA
Top 10%, activity score (≥ 17) 7,150,000 78,793 90.74
Top 20%, activity score (≥15) 4,250,000 60,186 70.61
Top 50%, activity score (≥ 9.5) 8,600,000 171,317 50.20

Stakers and IBC Relayers, Cosmos Hub and Osmosis – 20,000,000 TIA

Criteria TIA allocation Eligible Min TIA
Top 10%, stake x activity score 3,250,000 29,630 109.69
Top 50%, stake x activity score 9,250,000 116,552 79.36
Stake x activity score (0-50%) 6,000,000 119,635 50.15
IBC relayers, Cosmos Hub & Osmosis 1,500,000 540 2,777.78

Eligibility Criteria

1. Research and Public Goods (20 million TIA)

Protocol Public Goods and Infrastructure (4,600,000 TIA)

  • Public GitHub contributors to organizations and key infrastructure repositories of Ethereum, Bitcoin and all chains included in the onchain criteria
  • Public GitHub contributors to the Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) and Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) repositories
  • Public GitHub contributors to celestia-core, celestia-node, and celestia-app (excluding Celestia Labs)
  • Members of GitHub organizations and public contributors to key repos of open source blockchain dependencies of Celestia

Exclusion Criteria: Members of the Celestia Labs team and advisors

Eth Research (1,400,000 TIA)

  • Users of Eth Research forum who have created at least 1 Topic or 1 Post before July 5, 2023

2. Early Modular Ecosystem (8,350,000 TIA)

  • Members of GitHub organizations and public GitHub contributors based on:
    • The Modular ecosystem map and Celestia ecosystem map (July 2023)
    • Organizations represented at Modular Summits 1 (Amsterdam, 2022) and 2 (Paris, 2023)
    • GitHub accounts of Celestia Modular Fellows, cohort 1

Exclusion Criteria: Members of the Celestia Labs team and advisors

3. Early Adopters of Ethereum Rollups (20,000,000 TIA)

  • Users with a snapshotted balance of $50 onchain or bridged to the top 10 Ethereum rollups by TVL
  • Snapshot taken at Ethereum block 16308181 (January 1, 2023)
  • Activity score based on:
    • Recency of last transaction
    • Holding an ENS domain (.eth)
    • Gitcoin donation
    • Smart contract interactions
    • Account age
    • Active months
    • Number of transactions
    • Total value of transactions
    • Gas spent (USD)

Exclusion Criteria: Known sybils, exchanges, relayers, and addresses connected to exploits

4. Stakers and IBC Relayers on Cosmos Hub and Osmosis (20,000,000 TIA)

  • Cosmos Hub and Osmosis stakers/delegators of ≥ $75 (Snapshot: Cosmos Hub block 13482205, Osmosis block 7592794)
  • IBC relayers making MsgRecvPacket transactions before January 1, 2023

Exclusion Criteria: Sybil addresses, known exchange addresses, addresses connected to exploits

Additional Information

  • TIA is essential for paying for blobspace through PayForBlobs (PFB) transactions
  • Developers can use TIA to bootstrap rollups without needing to issue their own token immediately
  • TIA enables staking for network security and participation in governance
  • Governance includes voting on network parameters and community pool allocation
  • Community pool receives 2% of all Celestia block rewards
  • At the conclusion of the Genesis Drop, unclaimed tokens (up to 45 million TIA) will be reallocated to claimants
  • The official claiming process is only through genesis.celestia.org
  • Tokens will be accessible directly in-wallet from Celestia’s first block