Celestia price and where to buy TIA

What is Celestia?

Celestia is a data-availability network: other blockchains, especially rollups, publish their transaction data to it so anyone can verify it, instead of running a full chain of their own. TIA pays for that data space and is staked by validators.

How to buy Celestia, step by step

1. Pick an exchange. TIA is listed on every exchange we track. Compare fees, funding options and whether it serves your country in our exchange reviews.
2. Create and verify your account. Regulated exchanges ask for identity documents before you can deposit fiat.
3. Fund the account. A bank transfer or a stablecoin deposit usually costs far less than a card payment.
4. Buy TIA. Use the TIA/USDT or TIA/USD market, and check the cheapest venue in the table above first.
5. Decide where to keep it. On the exchange is simplest, but the exchange then holds your coins. TIA runs on its own network; withdraw only to a Celestia address.

Where to buy Celestia at the best price

The cheapest venue right now is marked in the table above. Add its trading fee before comparing: on TIA the venues disagree by about 0.097 percent on average, so on a small purchase the fee and the funding method usually matter more.

• The price on that venue. Each row shows the gap to our composite.
• The trading fee. Our fee comparison lists spot fees side by side.
• How you fund the account. A bank transfer or stablecoin deposit is usually far cheaper than a card payment, which often costs several percent.

Why the Celestia price differs between exchanges

In our minute-by-minute measurement the gap between the highest and lowest venue averaged about 0.097 percent, against about 0.025 percent for Bitcoin. It went above half a percent in about nine minutes out of every thousand, and reached about 1.5 percent at its widest.

Just under half of the TIA spot volume we track trades on a single venue. The spread figure at the top of this page is the live measurement; our guide on why crypto prices differ between exchanges explains the mechanism.

What moves the Celestia price

The wider crypto market, and in TIA’s case its own news too. In our hourly composite, TIA moved with Bitcoin at a correlation of about 0.44, where 1 would mean identical moves, and its moves were about three times the size of Bitcoin’s.

TIA-specific drivers come on top: demand for data space from rollups, token unlocks and leverage. The funding rates on this page show whether leveraged traders are paying to be long or short right now.

Pros and cons of Celestia

Pros

• A distinct role in blockchain infrastructure: data availability.
• Its average gap between exchanges was tighter than most coins at this size.

Cons

• Its hourly moves were about three times Bitcoin’s in our data.
• Large token unlocks add supply.
• It trades far below its all-time high of about $20.9.

Celestia’s highest price

Celestia’s all-time high is about $20.9 on volume-weighted data. The chart above shows the last 30 days of our composite, and the TIA to USD converter applies the live price to any amount.