Celestia's TIA token climbed about 16% after the launch of Eden, a new EVM-compatible chain built for autonomous AI agents. TIA serves as Eden's gas token, while the chain relies on Celestia mainnet for data availability. Celestia calls Eden an experiment.
TIA climbed about 16% after the launch of Eden, a new EVM-compatible chain for autonomous AI agents. Some estimates put the 24-hour move closer to 30%, with TIA trading between $0.69 and $0.70.
Alongside the price gain, TIA also saw a notable rise in market capitalization and trading volume. Eden went live on October 16, 2026, and Celestia describes it as a testing ground for what it calls agentic commerce, where AI agents handle payments, trading and fund management on-chain.
How Eden works
The chain runs on the Evolve Stack and handles its own execution and consensus. It uses Celestia mainnet only for data availability, which means publishing transaction data so anyone can check it. Because TIA is Eden's native gas token, every transaction on the chain draws on demand for it.
Eden supports 100 ms block times, or ten blocks every second. Apps can sponsor gas fees for their users, so an agent does not need a TIA balance to get started. Smart contracts can reach 128 KB in size.
Botfun is the first closed-beta project
Eden's first closed-beta project is Botfun. There, agents issue tokens and trade them around narratives that other agents generate: one bot writes a story, another mints a token about it, and a third decides whether to buy.
The platform relies on the x402 protocol for transactions, and agents can make inference calls directly on-chain. During the beta, Eden briefly ranked among the top x402 networks by transaction count.
What Celestia wants to learn
Celestia frames Eden as a tool for measuring how much blockspace demand autonomous agents might create. It also wants to understand how quickly and cheaply low-friction payments can move as agent use grows.
Eden is explicitly experimental, and Botfun remains in closed beta. The source notes that systems where bots issue and trade tokens around AI-written narratives could produce market behavior that no one fully anticipates.
Source: Crypto Briefing
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