Eden and the AI agent expansion on Celestia

Celestia launched Eden, an EVM chain that tests AI agent behavior. Eden is an experimental sandbox for agentic commerce. This environment tests how AI agents handle autonomous on-chain payments, trade execution, and model invocation. Botfun, the first project on Eden, allows agents to issue tokens and trade based on narratives from other agents. Each model inference call in Botfun is paid for on-chain via x402. This experiment is one of the largest x402 networks by transaction volume. Eden is an EVM-compatible chain that supports atomic batch transactions and application-sponsored gas. TIA is the native gas token for this ecosystem. You should observe how these agents manage funds and how their behavior impacts network design. As AI agents participate in more frequent on-chain transactions, demand for block space and low-friction payments increases. The team is led by Mustafa Al-Bassam, John Adler, and Ismail Khoffi.

Data availability costs and EigenLayer growth

Celestia is the leader in the modular data availability market. Rollups pay roughly $0.07 per megabyte to store data on Celestia. This is a 55x cost advantage compared to the $3.83 per megabyte fee on Ethereum. By early 2026, Celestia processed 160 GB of rollup data and holds a 50% market share in the data availability sector. EigenLayer also saw growth, as its total value locked surpassed $20 billion. This growth happened after the April launch of EigenDA. EigenLayer registered one of its largest spikes on 31 May, when $600 million in funds were deposited in a single day. Currently, 16.15% of all staked Ether is restaked. While Celestia provides cheaper data, the complexity of designing and maintaining independent layers for consensus, execution, and data availability creates significant development hurdles for engineers who want to build modular blockchain systems. TIA inflation is 2.5% following 2025 upgrades, and the long-term target is 1.5%.

Rollup deployment and network usage

Celestia uses Data Availability Sampling to reduce bandwidth requirements. Light nodes randomly sample small chunks of a block to verify availability. This process is mathematically certain if enough samples exist. Celestia also uses namespaced Merkle trees to allow rollups to isolate their data blobs. Eclipse is an SVM rollup that settles to Ethereum. Eclipse published 83 GB of data to Celestia, which is more than half of the total network volume. Dymension uses Celestia for its RollApps. Dymension reported a 30% increase in transaction processing speed. There are 26 rollups using Celestia as of early 2026. Manta Pacific is a ZK rollup built on the OP Stack that uses the Celestia DA layer. Plume Network is a rollup for real-world assets. It publishes tokenized asset transaction data to Celestia. Deri Protocol is a multichain derivatives platform that uses Celestia for high-frequency trading data. Interoperability adds new trust assumptions that developers must design for. Will AI agents eventually consume all available blobspace? Aevo and Orderly Network are derivatives exchanges that use Celestia to post order data.