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Celestia is the first production modular data availability blockchain. It separates consensus and data availability from execution and settlement, letting rollups, sovereign chains, and other execution layers post their transaction data as blobs to Celestia under namespaces while running their own state machines. Light nodes use Data Availability Sampling and Namespaced Merkle Trees to verify availability without downloading full blocks, and the Blobstream / Blobstream X bridge attests Celestia data commitments on Ethereum and other EVM chains. The reference stack — celestia-app (consensus, Cosmos SDK + CometBFT) and celestia-node (DA bridge/full/ light nodes) — exposes a JSON-RPC API with nine modules (blob, header, share, state, das, fraud, p2p, node, da, blobstream), plus a modular DA interface used by Rollkit, Optimism Alt-DA, Arbitrum Nitro DAS, and other rollup frameworks.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles celestia the way a machine reads it — 56 machine-readable artifacts across 10 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — celestia scores 45.1/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 45.1/100 · developing
Contract Quality 16.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 11.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 7.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile celestia

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for celestia. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 10

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Celestia Node Blob API

JSON-RPC methods in the blob module of celestia-node. Submit blobs to one or more namespaces with blob.Submit, retrieve them by height with blob.Get and blob.GetAll, generate in...

Celestia Node Header API

JSON-RPC methods in the header module of celestia-node. Query ExtendedHeaders with header.LocalHead, header.NetworkHead, header.GetByHeight, header.GetByHash, and header.GetRang...

Celestia Node DA API

JSON-RPC methods in the da module of celestia-node implementing the modular Data Availability interface used by Rollkit, Optimism Alt-DA, Arbitrum Nitro DAS, and other rollup fr...

Celestia Node Share API

JSON-RPC methods in the share module of celestia-node. Provides direct access to Celestia's share-level data, the extended data square (EDS), namespaced shares, and share proofs...

Celestia Node State API

JSON-RPC methods in the state module of celestia-node. Exposes state-level operations including account balances, transfers, delegations, and most importantly state.SubmitPayFor...

Celestia Node DAS API

JSON-RPC methods in the das module of celestia-node. Operational introspection over the Data Availability Sampling subsystem that light nodes run to probabilistically verify blo...

Celestia Node Fraud API

JSON-RPC methods in the fraud module of celestia-node. Exposes fraud proof retrieval and subscription for the BadEncoding fraud proof type used to slash bridge nodes that propag...

Celestia Node P2P API

JSON-RPC methods in the p2p module of celestia-node. libp2p-level introspection and control over the Celestia DA network including peer info, NAT status, connection management, ...

Celestia Node Admin API

JSON-RPC methods in the node module of celestia-node. Provides administrative introspection over the running node including node.Info, node.Ready, node.LogLevelSet, and the auth...

Celestia Node Blobstream API

JSON-RPC methods in the blobstream module of celestia-node. Generates inclusion proofs against Blobstream data commitments so EVM chains can verify, via the Blobstream(X) bridge...

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Open Collections 11

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Celestia Node Blob API

OPEN COLLECTION

Celestia Node DA API

OPEN COLLECTION

Celestia Node DAS API

OPEN COLLECTION

Celestia Node Fraud API

OPEN COLLECTION

Celestia Node Header API

OPEN COLLECTION

Celestia Node Admin API

OPEN COLLECTION

Celestia Node P2P API

OPEN COLLECTION

Celestia Node Share API

OPEN COLLECTION

Celestia Node State API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Features 19

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

First production modular data availability layer; separates consensus + DA from execution and settlement
Mainnet Beta launched October 2023; chain id celestia
Mocha-4 public testnet and Arabica devnet for application developers
PayForBlobs (MsgPayForBlobs) transactions for publishing namespaced blob data
Namespaced Merkle Trees (NMT) so each rollup only downloads data for its namespace
2D Reed-Solomon erasure coding over the extended data square (EDS)
Data Availability Sampling (DAS) lets light nodes verify availability without downloading full blocks
Bridge, full, and light celestia-node modes
JSON-RPC over HTTP (default :26658) with bearer-token auth and four permission scopes (public, read, write, admin)
WebSocket subscriptions for blob.Subscribe, header.Subscribe, fraud.Subscribe
Modular DA interface (da.*) compatible with Rollkit, Optimism Alt-DA, Arbitrum Nitro DAS, OP-Succinct, Kona, Hana
celestia-app exposes Cosmos SDK gRPC (:9090), REST (:1317), and CometBFT RPC (:26657) for consensus-level queries
Blobstream and Blobstream X bridge to Ethereum and EVM chains for cross-chain data root verification
Lumina Rust+Wasm light node runs in the browser
Funded by TIA staking and PayForBlobs gas fees; no central API key or commercial pricing tier
Reference implementations in Go (celestia-node, celestia-app) and Rust (lumina, celestia-rpc)
Apache-2.0 licensed across the celestia-node, celestia-app, celestia-core, and tooling repos
Active CIP (Celestia Improvement Proposal) process for protocol governance
Ecosystem rollups include Manta Pacific, Eclipse, Movement, Lightlink, Polygon CDK Validium, Astria, Hyperliquid (DA usage), and many more

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Celestia Context

39 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

celestia API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

celestia API Rules

4 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Celestia Blob

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Celestia Extended Header

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Celestia Namespace

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Celestia Blob Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 6

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Celestia Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Celestia Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Celestia Agentic Access

10 operations · 10 acting

10 operations · 10 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for celestia — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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