But if it only stays at the conceptual level, it is actually easy to overestimate and also easy to misjudge its rhythm.
What TIA (Celestia) truly aims to solve is not to 'create a stronger chain,' but rather a more fundamental issue: why does each new chain have to repeat consensus and data availability? In the worldview of Celestia, chains should not be 'jack of all trades,' but should each fulfill their roles.
What truly needs TIA is not ordinary users, but: developers who want to quickly launch new chains, Rollup projects that do not want to maintain underlying security themselves, and teams that wish to focus on the application layer rather than infrastructure.
For them, the biggest cost is not gas, but the start-up costs, maintenance costs, and failure probabilities. The value of Celestia lies in outsourcing these costs.
What would happen if TIA is not used?
These projects can certainly exist, but often imply: higher technical thresholds, longer development cycles, and greater security responsibilities.
This is also why the path of modularization is attractive to developers, but not intuitive for retail investors.
Looking at the community again
TIA's community has a very obvious characteristic: the focus of discussion leans towards development and architecture, rather than price. What you see is not waves of emotion, but the continuous emergence of new Rollups, new experiments, and new attempts.
Such communities usually appear in projects that serve as a 'base for others'.
But it must also be made clear the real position of TIA: modularization is not the mainstream narrative; it is a slow variable. Only when the number of chains continues to expand and applications continue to subdivide, will a network like Celestia that 'does one thing' be repeatedly needed.
This also determines the participation logic of TIA: it is not suitable for chasing short-term stories, but more like a bet on the evolution direction of blockchain architecture. What you are betting on is not the explosion of a certain application, but whether the future will really head towards 'splitting + specialization'.
If blockchain ultimately moves towards integration, TIA will be marginalized; but if the world is modular, TIA will not be absent.$TIA
