Validators process transactions and receive fees from users (supply-side fees). DA costs for users are reflected in the transactions fees paid.

Celestia is a proof of stake blockchain optimized for data availability (DA). Celestia was founded by Mustafa Al-Bassam, etc. and launched in 2023.

TIA holders own and govern the protocol. They currently do not take a cut of the total transaction fees paid by users (revenue). Celestia's investors include Polychain Capital, Placeholder, Coinbase Ventures, etc.

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# Celestia Number of validators Methodology

## 1. Overview

The number of validators metric measures the count of unique validators that proposed at least one block on the Celestia blockchain each day. This metric provides insight into the decentralization and validator participation of the Celestia network by tracking how many distinct validators are actively participating in block production on a daily basis.

## 2. Data sources

The calculation relies on the following raw data sources:
- **Celestia blockchain block data**: Raw block records from the Celestia blockchain containing block headers, timestamps, and validator information
- **Block proposer records**: Validator addresses that proposed each block, extracted from block metadata
- **Blockchain timestamps**: Block production timestamps used for daily aggregation boundaries

## 3. Step-by-step calculation

### Component A: Block data extraction
- **Purpose**: Extract and prepare raw Celestia block data with validator information
- **Logic**: Retrieves block records from Celestia blockchain data, extracting the block timestamp, block height, and proposer address (validator) for each block. The `proposer_address` field identifies which validator proposed each specific block on the network.
- **Key fields**: `block_timestamp` for timing, `block_number` for block identification, and `validator` (proposer address) for unique validator identification

### Component B: Daily validator aggregation
- **Purpose**: Count unique validators per day across the Celestia network
- **Logic**: Groups block data by day using timestamp truncation to create daily boundaries. For each day, counts the number of distinct validators (proposer addresses) that proposed at least one block. This captures all validators that were actively participating in block production on each given day.
- **Key fields**: Daily `timestamp` boundaries, distinct count of `validator` addresses, and business metadata including `market_sector_id` as 'blockchains_l1', `business_segment_id` as 'blockchain', and `chain_id` as 'celestia'

### Final aggregation
- **Combining components**: The daily aggregated validator counts are processed through Token Terminal's standard metric finalization process
- **Data completeness**: Applies a 'fill_zeros' strategy to ensure missing days show zero validators rather than null values
- **Quality controls**: Incremental processing includes a lookback period to ensure data quality and completeness, and chain availability filtering is applied to maintain data integrity
- **Final calculation**: The final metric represents the count of unique validator addresses that proposed at least one block on each day for the Celestia blockchain

*This methodology was automatically generated by Token Terminal's methodology analyzer.*

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