Celestia Proposes Burning Blob Fees and Requiring Rollups to Stake TIA for Guaranteed Bandwidth

A Celestia Improvement Proposal posted to the network's governance forum on November 7, 2026 lays out a significant restructuring of how the blockchain prices the data space, known as blob space, that rollups use to post their transaction data to Celestia's base layer. The proposal would split the current blob fee structure into two distinct components: a dynamic base fee that adjusts with network demand and is entirely burned rather than paid to any party, and a separate priority tip that participants could pay to have their data included faster during periods of congestion.