In the past two days, Celestia directly announced the launch of airdrops to reward early project supporters and distribute the creation token TIA to 7579 developers and 576,653 on-chain addresses.
Eligible participants can claim up to 60 million TIAs before 20:00 on October 17, 2023.
Judging from the airdrop rules, the interaction snapshot was before January 1, 2023, held the ENS domain name, participated in gitcoin donations, had interactions on Ethereum, Optimism, Arbirum One and other networks, and the wallet account has been used for a long time and remains active. , accounts that continue to consume gas are eligible.
A wallet of Chuxiao Chain was actually eligible to receive 90 TIA airdrops, but I had no memory of having interacted with it before. It was an unexpected bonus.
The Celestia airdrop has no Odyssey missions, no PUA, and no big pie. It gives early users and contributors a direct reward, which is very popular with everyone.
However, the airdrop rules announced by it have also made the entire interactive market uneasy, because the interaction costs have greatly increased.
Holding the ENS domain name, making donations, continuing to consume gas, old accounts, and various witches, the interaction costs are getting bigger and bigger.
For the project side, they hope to screen out real users and reward and retain early users; but the large number of interactive players really support the data of one project after another. Without a large number of interactive airdrop accounts, it would be impossible to have The project’s beautiful data and TVL means it has no aura or sustained popularity.
Therefore, balancing real players and batch interactive accounts is really not a simple matter. After all, the number of real web3 users is too small, and only some people can use wallets. Without sufficient data, it is difficult to support the valuation of a project.
So what is Celestia, which directly sends airdrops, and what needs does it solve?
Celestia is a modular consensus and data network designed to enable anyone to easily deploy their own blockchain with minimal overhead. It is a public chain that stores transaction records and provides data availability.
Featuring a pluggable consensus and data availability layer that enables anyone to quickly deploy a decentralized blockchain without the overhead of bootstrapping a new consensus network; more simply, a cloud computing for Web 3 .
Celestia enables users to launch decentralized applications on specific application chains that share a consensus layer.
Celestia is infrastructure and has similar functions to extension solutions such as Optimism, ZKsync and Starknet, but the latter still relies on Ethereum for data availability, has high gas costs, and has higher requirements for development tools and environments.
Celestia adopts a modular architecture to decouple the blockchain stack into specialized components. Its core functions, consensus and execution, are divided into different layers, greatly improving developer efficiency and reducing costs.
For individual users, it is indeed difficult to interact with basic settings projects. They are neither developers nor nodes and can only interact briefly to understand how to play.
Perhaps in the future, air investment qualifications will no longer involve simple staking and voting, but may require long-term interactions, and it will also depend on the value and sustainability of the account itself.
For example, when doing zkSync network interaction, trying to issue tokens in the thirdweb project is also considered an interaction. If thirdweb has airdrops in the future, there may be gains.
There is also the on-chain data query project ARKHAM, which was airdropped some time ago. It also issues airdrops to early users.
Sometimes projects that work hard to interact may not necessarily have results, such as sui, but only some people get airdrops.
But keep exploring and interacting, make a real active account, and participate in different project experiences, and you may have unexpected gains.
The above is just my personal opinion, no investment advice. I am Chuxiaolian, and I am paying attention to the encryption market and web3.
