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For the editor of a blockchain tech newsletter, it’s always nice (for readership) when there’s a smart explainer-y angle to a token airdrop that’s hotly tracked by the crypto degens. That’s the gist of our feature article<\/a>, on the blockchain project Celestia, which this week airdropped its new TIA tokens to early contributors and crypto users, creating some $300 million-plus of market capitalization literally overnight. The backstory is that the “data availability<\/a>” network originated with a research paper by a Ph.D. student at University College London; now it claims to have touched off a new “modular era” of blockchain development, especially in the Ethereum ecosystem.<\/p>\n

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