Nick White, the Chief Operating Officer of Celestia, stated at the modular harmony conference held at Hashdroon in the Gangnam district of Seoul on the 29th that when network operators do not share data and blockchain operators cannot prove transaction history, DA problems arise. Using sampling for data validation can effectively propagate block data and make DA problems relatively easy to solve. Nick White emphasized that running blockchain in a modular way can improve scalability, security, and decentralization. Unlike existing monolithic blockchain nodes, if a part fails, the entire blockchain will stop. Celestia separates the consensus layer and execution layer, improving the flexibility and security of the blockchain.

On February 20th, it was announced on the official website that the ALT airdrop for Celestia stakers was open for collection starting at 16:00 on February 20th, and the deadline for airdrop collection is 16:00 on March 5th. AltLayer previously stated that the ALT airdrop for Celestia stakers would be available for collection from February 20th to March 5th.

AltLayer announced an update to the first season airdrop of ALT for Celestia stakers on the X platform. The distribution phase for ALT tokens will only take place during the following time period for eligible users who have completed registration: February 20th, 16:00 Beijing time to March 5th, 16:00.

Celestia Foundation announced the launch of the Validator Delegation Program. In the 100 validator seats of the Celestia mainnet Beta version, the foundation will delegate to 50 according to this plan. Starting from February 1st, the application process will last for one month, and then the Celestia Foundation will evaluate and select the most suitable validators.

Celestia (TIA) raised $1.5 million in seed funding, selling 159,000,000 tokens at a price of only $0.0094 per token, as reported by Mustafa Al-Bassam, co-founder of Celestia, on social media. Mustafa Al-Bassam also mentioned that in 2019, Celestia was rejected by investors multiple times and it took months for the team to convince their first investor, George Lambeth, who was a college student at the time.

CelestLoan, a staking project in the Celestia ecosystem, will launch its first round of Cloan token sales at 1:00 am (UTC+8) on January 30th. The initial price is 0.57 USDT, and 10 million tokens will be sold (1% of the total supply). The second round of token subscriptions will begin at 7:00 am (UTC+8) on March 15th, with a total of 15 million Cloan tokens available for sale. Registration will end at 8:00 am on March 30th.It is reported that CelestLoan is a decentralized financial protocol built on Celestia, providing users with flexible staking and lending tools.

Layer2 network Manta Pacific will adopt Celestia's modular data availability solution to reduce user transaction costs. Kenny Li, co-founder of Manta Network, said the team is currently upgrading Manta Pacific and introducing Celestia.

On December 14th, according to OKX market data, TIA broke through $14 and is now priced at $14.17, with a 24-hour increase of 17.2%, and the coin price continues to hit a new all-time high.

On December 13th, Celestia has integrated its data availability layer with Polygon Labs' chain development toolkit (CDK). This integration introduces a dedicated data availability solution for Layer2 projects (such as OKX, Immutable, Astar, IDEX, Palm, etc.) using Polygon CDK to reduce their gas fees.

Mustafa Al-Bassam, co-founder of Celestia, stated that in the latest version v0.12.1, the RAM usage of Celestia nodes has been reduced by 10 times (including light nodes). If developers are running nodes, it is recommended to upgrade to v0.12.1.