Background

Underlying Innovation

Celestia is hailed as one of the most significant underlying innovations since Ethereum. It is the first modular blockchain network that allows anyone to deploy decentralized blockchains quickly without incurring the cost of bootstrapping a new consensus network.

TIA Market Cap Ranking Top 40

As the Celestia ecosystem continues to thrive, its native token TIA has become a popular digital asset. From a circulating supply perspective, TIA has not had significant unlocks until October 2024, while validator nodes across the network continue to stake, making liquidity absorption easier and driving higher price gains.

Token	Circulating Market Cap	Price Increase	Listing Exchanges
TIA	$2 Billion	800%	Listed on major exchanges including Binance, OKex, Coinbase, and Kraken, among others.

Celestia's ecosystem lacked a comprehensive protocol to fully utilize TIA staking and lending income.

Lido is a liquid staking solution for Ethereum 2.0 that allows ETH holders to stake any amount of ETH without operating staking infrastructure or sacrificing liquidity. Currently, Lido has a TVL (Total Value Locked) of $21.8 billion. However, Celestia's blockchain did not have a staking and lending protocol comparable to Lido, and CelestLoan fills this ecosystem gap.

Product	Chain	Asset type	Returns	Collateral & Lending	Investment in Other DeFi
CelestLoan	Celestia	Stake TIA to get cTIA	APY 17%	Collateralize cTIA on CelestLoan to earn 60% USDT	Collateralize tokens + cTIA in other on-chain protocols (Aave/Curve, etc.) for corresponding returns.
Lido	ETH	Stake ETH to get stETH	APR 5%	Collateralize stETH on Aave/Curve and similar protocols for lending	Provide liquidity as ETH/stETH on Curve