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Celestia Jumped 18% by Friday Midday, Most of It in One Hour, to a Four-Month High
Celestia's TIA rose from $0.591 to about $0.70 by 11:00 UTC on October 16, its highest price in at least four months. The decisive hour was 07:00 UTC, when $6.3 million changed hands and the price touched $0.7148.
Celestia (TIA) spent Thursday as a quiet participant in the altcoin bounce, rising 6.88% to $0.5907 on Binance. Friday was different. The token crept higher through the Asian night, from $0.585 at 01:00 UTC to $0.624 by 06:00, on volume of $600,000 to $850,000 an hour.
Then the European morning arrived. In the 06:00 UTC hour TIA jumped to $0.6576 on $3.2 million of trading, and in the 07:00 hour it touched $0.7148 on $6.3 million — about eight times the volume of the hours before — before closing that hour at $0.6675. The price did not collapse after the spike: it held between $0.656 and $0.694 for the next three hours and was back at $0.70 by 11:00 UTC, up about 18.5% on the day and at its highest level in at least four months. Daily volume had already reached $20 million, against $13.1 million for all of Thursday.
Celestia is a blockchain built to store transaction data for other blockchains, a role known as data availability. We found no announcement that explained the timing of Friday's move. It came during a broad rally in mid-sized tokens: Worldcoin, Aptos and Filecoin were each up more than 12% over 24 hours, while Injective extended Thursday's breakout.
What distinguishes TIA's move from this week's spike-and-fade tokens so far is the behaviour after the peak. Gitcoin, NXPC and ANIME each surrendered most of their spikes within hours; TIA gave back about 7% from its high and then rebuilt. The day is not over, and a Friday rally running into a weekend of thinner liquidity has its own risks, but holding the gains of an hour of heavy buying is the first test a breakout has to pass.
The next one comes on Saturday and Sunday: whether a higher close is followed by a higher open, or by the kind of fade that has caught out buyers of every other spike this week.