Celestia’s Eden launch sends TIA up about 16% in a day

Celestia’s TIA token climbed about 16% after the launch of Eden, a new EVM-compatible chain built for autonomous AI agents. Some estimates put the 24-hour move closer to 30%, with TIA trading between $0.69 and $0.70. Eden went live on October 16, 2026. Celestia calls it an experiment, and that word is doing real work. The chain is a testing ground for what the project calls “agentic commerce”: AI agents handling payments, trading, and fund management on-chain with minimal human hand-holding. What Eden actually is The chain runs on the Evolve Stack and handles its own execution and consensus. It leans on Celestia mainnet for one job only: data availability, which means publishing transaction data so anyone can check it. Eden decides what happens on its own network, while Celestia keeps the public record that proves it happened. TIA is Eden’s native gas token, so every transaction on the new chain draws on demand for it. Eden supports 100 ms block times, or ten blocks every second. The chain also allows application-sponsored gas fees. Apps can cover transaction costs for their users, so an agent doesn’t need to hold a balance of TIA before doing anything useful. Smart contracts can r...