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The modular blockchain network Celestia announced the launch of the application-specific blockchain architecture Voyager, aimed at large-scale payment scenarios in agent commerce. The official statement claims that Voyager processed approximately 21 million transactions per second continuously between 100 million accounts during its first complete benchmark test, which lasted for 5 hours.Celestia stated that Voyager splits payment processing into independently scalable threads, avoiding blocking the execution thread responsible for updating balances. Transactions are first verified for signatures and packaged at the entry layer, then enter a circular buffer inspired by the exchange system Disruptor; execution logic is built-in, and state is stored in a flat table rather than a Merkle tree. Each transaction is published to Celestia's data availability protocol Fibre, for external replay and verification of whether payments were executed correctly.The benchmark test covered approximately 40 billion random transfers, with an average throughput of 21.2 million TPS and a peak of 21.6 million TPS. Execution ran on a single CPU core, with node memory around 48 GB. This test was conducted on a single node and did not include state root computation, cross-machine replication, or real-time state queries at the same scale. Celestia claims it is advancing Voyager into production and will release more in-depth technical documentation in the coming weeks. Fibre was launched on the mainnet last week, and Voyager is the first execution layer product launched after its acquisition of Sovereign Labs.

Spicenet, an on-chain financial brokerage network, announced the completion of a $5 million Series A funding round, led by dao5, with participation from Babylon and Astrarizon. Combined with the previous $3 million seed round co-led by Hack VC and Magnus Capital, the total funding amount reaches $8 million.The new funds will be used to launch the cross-platform margin account Spice Edge, issue the ecosystem token SPICE, and inject initial liquidity into network products. Spicenet is built on a dedicated L1 settlement layer supported by Celestia, and its core products also include the cross-chain one-click interaction protocol Spice Flow, as well as the in-development tokenized stock consumer application Spice Stocks.

According to The Defiant, the modular data availability network Celestia has announced the activation of Fibre services, opening a channel for Rollups to upload data directly to validators. Fibre is a data publishing protocol launched by Celestia that allows clients to upload blob data shards to Fibre servers operated by validators and download data from these servers, bypassing traditional relay transmission paths.According to Celestia's documentation, Fibre encodes each blob with erasure coding, enabling readers to recover complete data from partial encoded lines. The consensus layer only records payment information and blob commitments, while the data payload is transmitted directly between the client and the Fibre servers. The storage budget for each server is determined by the staking amount of its corresponding validator, and starting from application version 10, each bound validator is expected to run a Fibre server.Celestia stated that the design of separating data from commitments allows the chain to only handle commitments and validator signatures on-chain, without carrying the data itself, thus supporting higher throughput. In an end-to-end benchmark test involving 120 validators, Fibre achieved a throughput of 3.07 Tb/s. This feature provides a more efficient data publishing path for Rollups built on Celestia.

The modular blockchain project Celestia announced the launch of Eden, a high-performance EVM chain running on Celestia. Celestia stated that Eden will serve as an "Agentic Commerce" experimental sandbox to test the behavior and infrastructure needs of AI Agents when autonomously making payments, trading, and calling models on-chain.Celestia indicated that as AI Agents begin to participate in more frequent on-chain transactions, the market demand for block space, real-time settlement, and low-friction payments will continue to rise. Eden will help teams observe what kind of transaction environment Agents need, how they manage funds, and how their on-chain behavior will affect network design.The first experimental project of Eden is Botfun, currently in closed testing. According to Celestia, participating Agents can issue tokens independently and trade around narratives generated by other Agents; each model inference call is paid on-chain via x402.Celestia claimed that this experiment briefly positioned Eden as one of the largest x402 networks by transaction count. From a technical configuration perspective, Eden is an EVM-compatible chain that supports atomic batch transactions, application-paid Gas, and larger smart contract deployments, with the native Gas token being TIA. These designs will reduce the friction of signatures and fees when Agents continuously execute payments, exchanges, and interactions.

Celestia Labs announced that it has acquired the high-performance blockchain framework developer Sovereign Labs. The latter has been deeply engaged in the Celestia ecosystem since 2021, and its framework has provided underlying support for projects such as the cross-chain bridge Relay Protocol and the high-performance perpetual contract trading platform Bullet.After this acquisition, Celestia Labs' technical capabilities will extend from Layer 1 to the execution layer and application layer, becoming a full-stack custom blockchain development partner for enterprises. As projects like Hyperliquid, Polymarket, and Robinhood choose to build their own chains, the demand for full-stack blockchain infrastructure among enterprises is accelerating.

According to The Block, Astria Network "intended to cease" operations at block height 15,360,577 on Monday. The project was launched in 2023 and built on the Celestia data availability layer, aiming to be a modular decentralized sequencer for Layer 2 networks.Astria had completed a $5.5 million seed round in 2023 and secured $12.5 million in strategic funding in 2024. However, the project has recently faced multiple setbacks, including halting the development of Flame EVM, an unexpected shutdown of the early testnet, shutting down Celestia validators, and the withdrawal of its only major integrated application, the Astria Bridging Protocol.

ChainCatcher news, according to a tweet from Celestia: "The Celestia Foundation has partnered with Polychain Capital to transfer all remaining TIA tokens held by Polychain to new investors.This month, the foundation purchased 43,451,616.09 TIA from Polychain Capital for $62.5 million. To complete this transaction, Polychain will soon cancel its entire staked TIA holdings.To ensure the foundation's financial situation is not affected, the foundation is finalizing the distribution of TIA with the new investors. These transactions will adopt a rolling unlock mechanism, with the first unlock starting on August 16 and completing on November 14."

ChainCatcher news, according to a post by Hazeflow founder Pavel Paramonov on X platform, Polychain has invested about 20 million dollars in the Celestia project and has already profited over 80 million dollars solely from selling Celestia token staking rewards, achieving a return of over 4 times without selling the main investment.

According to ChainCatcher news, as revealed by Hazeflow founder Pavel Paramonov, Polychain invested approximately $20 million in the Celestia project and has sold tokens worth over $80 million solely through staking rewards without selling any of its original investment. Celestia has currently dropped 92.2% from its historical peak.

ChainCatcher news, according to a tweet by Celestia co-founder Mustafa Al-Bassam, despite the increasing FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) against Celestia in the market, all founders, early employees, and core engineers are still steadfast in their positions, maintaining the same enthusiasm for work as when the project was launched.Al-Bassam stated that Celestia currently has over $100 million in reserves and more than 6 years of operational funding, and the team is prepared for long-term development. He also mentioned that he has been involved in the cryptocurrency space since 2010 and understands that all tokens experience about a 95% drawdown during their lifecycle, so he is not surprised by the current market fluctuations.

ChainCatcher news, Hibachi officially announced the launch of a decentralized perpetual contract exchange (Perp DEX) focused on privacy protection. The platform is built on Celestia's modular data availability layer and Succinct's zero-knowledge proof infrastructure, achieving on-chain privacy protection for transaction records, positions, and account balances, aiming to address user privacy issues caused by the transparency of on-chain transactions at the fundamental level.It is reported that Hibachi has received investment support from Dragonfly and Electric Capital. Currently, Hibachi has launched its core perpetual contract trading functionality, and in the future, it will gradually introduce strategy vaults, a native lending market, multi-asset collateral mechanisms, and spot trading features to meet users' more comprehensive risk management and asset allocation needs. The market currently anticipates the potential launch of a native token to further incentivize user participation.The team stated that they will continue to promote product innovation and ecosystem expansion around the three core concepts of "fast execution, privacy protection, and on-chain verifiability."

ChainCatcher news, the modular blockchain Celestia announces the integration of Hyperlane as its native interoperability solution.The native TIA will expand to platforms such as Ethereum, Solana, Base, Arbitrum One, Eclipse, Abstract, and more, supported by Hyperlane.

ChainCatcher message, Upbit announced that due to the maintenance of the wallet systems for Aptos (APT) and Celestia (TIA), the deposit and withdrawal services for these two digital assets will be suspended starting from May 26, 2025, at 23:00 (KST), until the stability of the system is confirmed. During the suspension, the deposit and withdrawal processes will be temporarily halted, but trading will not be affected. The recovery time will be announced separately.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Upbit has announced that it will support trading for Celestia (TIA) and Io.net (IO). Among them, TIA will open trading pairs for KRW, BTC, and USDT, while IO will support BTC and USDT trading pairs.

ChainCatcher message indicates that, according to SoSoValue data, the encrypted market sector has seen some increases, with Bitcoin (BTC) rising for two consecutive days, up 0.85% in 24 hours, peaking above $98,000. Ethereum (ETH) has been fluctuating narrowly, down 0.31% in 24 hours, but still maintaining around $1,800. Additionally, the Layer2 sector rose by 1.49%, with Celestia (TIA) and Stacks (STX) increasing by 3.76% and 8.12%, respectively. The GameFi sector rose by 1.15%, with Decentraland (MANA) and Beam (BEAM) increasing by 3.15% and 5.53%, respectively.Meanwhile, the cryptocurrency sector indices reflecting historical market trends show that the ssiGameFi and ssiLayer2 indices rose by 1.61% and 1.46% in 24 hours, respectively.In other sectors, the Meme sector rose by 0.84% in 24 hours, with Popcat (POPCAT) increasing by 11.75% and Mog Coin (MOG) rising by 36.60%; the Layer1 sector rose by 0.34%, and the DeFi sector rose by 0.19%, with Maker (MKR) increasing by 4.34%; the PayFi sector fell by 0.07%, but Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Safe (SAFE) rose against the trend by 6.51% and 25.10%, respectively; the CeFi sector fell by 0.20%.Additionally, the AI sector fell by 1.21%, but KAITO remained strong, rising for two consecutive days, peaking at 26.28% during the session.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Celestia has launched the mamo-1 public testnet, supporting a block size of 128MB and providing an unpermissioned data throughput of 21.33MB per second, which is 16 times the current 8MB block of its mainnet.The testnet consists of 21 validator nodes distributed in Amsterdam, Paris, and Warsaw, simulating a real-world network environment.