Derive Partners With Celestia to Enhance Onchain Options Exchange Scalability
Derive integrates Celestia's data availability layer to improve its onchain options exchange infrastructure.
Derive integrates Celestia's data availability layer to improve its onchain options exchange infrastructure. Celestia (TIA) is trading at $0.5486, up 0.8% since this brief published. This is an original TLT brief based on reporting by Crypto Economy, with live market data added, as of Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:00:03 UTC.
This integration aims to enhance the scalability and reliability of Derive's platform, which dominates the onchain options market, by leveraging Celestia's infrastructure for data availability.
- Derive integrates Celestia's data availability layer to scale its onchain options exchange.
- Derive accounts for 95% of onchain options premium volume with $40B+ in trading volume.
- Celestia's infrastructure ensures data availability for reconstructing the exchange's state.
Derive, a leading platform in the onchain options market, has announced the integration of 
Celestia's data availability layer to enhance its infrastructure. This move aims to improve the scalability and reliability of Derive's exchange, which currently dominates the onchain options space with about 95% of the premium volume.
Celestia's infrastructure makes the data needed to reconstruct the exchange's state publicly available. This is crucial for ensuring transparency and allowing users to withdraw funds efficiently, even in complex operational scenarios.
The integration comes at a time when Derive has already processed over $40 billion in cumulative notional trading volume, underscoring its significant role in the onchain options sector. The platform's Total Value Locked (TVL) stands at $180.09 million, according to DeFiLlama, marking a slight 7-day decline of 1.4%.
Celestia (TIA), the native token of the Celestia network, is currently priced at $0.544089, reflecting a 24-hour decrease of 4.18% and a 7-day drop of 22.11%. In contrast, Derive's token (DRV) has seen a modest 1.07% increase in the last 24 hours but is down 6.98% over the past week.
The broader crypto market remains relatively stable, with a total market cap of $2.81 trillion. 
Bitcoin has experienced a slight 0.58% increase in the last 24 hours, and the Fear & Greed Index currently stands at 50, indicating a neutral market sentiment.
Since this brief published about 1 hour ago, Celestia (TIA) has moved from $0.5441 to $0.5486 — +0.83%.
The chart plots TIA's price: grey is the move before this brief published, the vertical dashed line marks the moment it published, the horizontal dashed line is the price then, and the coloured area is the move since — from TLT's market data (daily resolution). It shows what happened after the news, not that the news caused it; many factors move prices. Not financial advice.
At today's peer-to-peer rate, 1 TIA ≈ ₦758.59 (about $0.5486), down 3.2% over 24 hours. The naira itself trades about 4.4% above the official rate on the P2P market, so a Nigerian buyer's effective cost differs from the headline dollar price.
Live market data
Current prices for the assets in this story — live, source-stamped, updated every 15 minutes.
Figures and sectors in this story, checked live against on-chain aggregators · October 23, 2026.
TLT reads these figures directly from on-chain aggregators (DeFiLlama, mempool.space) at build time — independent of what any outlet reported. Sector totals aggregate every protocol DeFiLlama tracks in that category. Values are live and will change.
Derive Partners With Celestia to Enhance Onchain Options Exc — questions & answers
What is the significance of Derive's integration with Celestia?
The integration aims to enhance the scalability and reliability of Derive's onchain options exchange by leveraging Celestia's data availability infrastructure.
How much trading volume has Derive processed?
Derive has processed over $40 billion in cumulative notional trading volume.
What is the current market cap of Celestia?
Celestia's market cap is $536.1 million, with its token (TIA) priced at $0.544089.
How much is 1 Celestia worth in naira today?
About ₦758.59 at the live peer-to-peer (P2P) USDT rate, which is what Nigerians typically trade at — equivalent to roughly $0.5486. The naira price moves with both TIA's US-dollar price and the USDT/NGN rate; use our Celestia in naira page for any amount.
Has Celestia's price moved since this brief was published?
TIA is up 0.83% since this brief first published — trading at $0.5486 now versus $0.5441 at publication. TLT re-checks this figure against CoinGecko and Binance every 15 minutes.
Which outlets reported this story?
This is an original TLT brief that synthesises reporting from Crypto Economy. It is not a copy of any one article — follow the source links above for the original reporting.
Original summary — not financial advice. This is an original TLT brief that summarises a development reported elsewhere and adds live market data for context; it is not the original article and reproduces no part of it. Follow the source link above for full details. Crypto is volatile and high-risk — always do your own research.