Celestia's Early Adoption Challenges and Market Position
Celestia's Early Adoption Challenges and Market Position
🤔 400k To Do Nothing?
Celestia, a modular blockchain platform, faces scrutiny over its market adoption and incentive strategies. Recent data shows limited transaction volume, with only 350,000 transactions recorded in its initial four-day period.
Key points:
- Questions raised about a $400k payment for non-usage of competing service Eigen
- Transaction volume remains modest compared to market expectations
- Early adoption metrics indicate slower-than-anticipated market penetration
The platform's growth trajectory and incentive structure are being closely monitored by the blockchain community as it continues its rollout phase.
aint y'all using celestia for da instead of eigen so y'all got paid 400k for...not using the service?
1 and 3 you have no evidence for nor will you because its untrue 2 is also just fud lmao. there were 80 teams that got that airdrop. our stack aimed to use eigenDA and thus needing eigen to pay i believe we also did several workshops with them for builders - u should ask them
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