What is Celestials?

What is Celestials?

Celestials is a decentralized username system for the modular blockchain ecosystem. It gives people easy to read names that work across multiple networks, especially those built on Celestia. Instead of sharing a different wallet address for every chain, you can use a single human-readable identity, like ⁠"alice.i" and have it resolve to the right address on each supported network.

Your Celestials identity lives on the Forma blockchain, but it's designed to be usable everywhere Celestials is integrated—bridging the "many chains" reality into one consistent profile.

How it works

Celestials uses a transparent onchain auction model to distribute names fairly:

• Any available name can be put up for auction by the first bidder.
• New bids can extend the auction timer to reduce last-second sniping.
• When the auction ends, the winner claims the name and becomes the owner.

Ownership is represented as an NFT. Once owned, a name becomes a portable identity object: the owner can attach wallet addresses for different chains, manage verification status, list it for sale, renew it before expiry, or revoke it permanently.

What a Celestials name looks like

A Celestials ID is a label plus the ⁠.i suffix (for example, ⁠bob_42.i).

• Allowed characters: letters, numbers, and underscore (⁠_)
• Length: 1 to 64 characters (before ⁠.i)
• Not allowed: spaces, emojis, extra dots, hyphens, or special characters other than ⁠_

Cross-chain resolution and verification

Celestials is built for "one name, many addresses":

• A single ID can store addresses for multiple chains.
• Addresses can be added as unverified or verified using chain-specific cryptographic proofs (EVM, Cosmos-style keys, Solana, and others).
• A "primary" mapping is used for priority and reverse lookups so apps can consistently display the same identity for a given address.

In practice, this lets wallets, apps, and marketplaces show ⁠alice.i instead of long addresses—without losing correctness across different networks.

Address verification (verifiable IDs)

Celestials doesn't just store addresses—it supports a verification layer so integrations can distinguish between "self-provided" and "cryptographically proven".

• Not verified: an address is attached to an ID, but ownership hasn't been proven yet.
• Verified: the owner proves control of the address using chain-specific cryptography (for example, ECDSA on EVM chains, secp256k1 for many Cosmos-style chains, Ed25519 for Solana).
• Primary: the canonical, highest-priority mapping for a given chain and for reverse lookups. Only one Celestial can be primary for an address+chain at a time; when a new primary is set, any previous primary is downgraded.

This makes Celestials IDs verifiable identity primitives: apps can prefer verified/primary mappings, filter unverified entries, and rely on stable reverse resolution.

Auction system

All IDs are auctioned off in a fair and transparent system, fully on Forma.

The first bid will start an auction for the ID, and subsequent bids reset the auction timer.

NFT art

All IDs are complemented by generative art by Rudxane.

Teken Raster by Rudxane is a generative series that transforms Celestials names into visual artworks through the matrix of a grid. Taking inspiration from the modular typography and grid-based compositions of legendary Dutch designer Wim Crouwel, Rudxane has created an elegant visual system that translates text into abstract form.

Each of the 36 possible unique characters in a Celestials name—26 letters and 10 numbers—activates a specific point within a 6x6 grid, forming a distinctive pictogram, or 'glyph', that serves as the fundamental element of the image. As these shapes are repeated, rotated, and rescaled, the regularity of the underlying grid is disrupted by emergent patterns and textures that furnish every output with an element of surprise.

Forms, colors, and compositional complexity are also affected by secondary attributes of the chosen name, syntactical and semantic, such as the number and types of characters used. Drawing language into the realm of abstract art, the series playfully reflects on how patterns can be sources both of information and aesthetic delight.

Lifecycle in one view

Celestials names move through clear states:

• Available → can be auctioned
• Auction → bids compete for ownership
• Auction ended → claim window for the winner
• Owned → active management (addresses, renewals, sales)
• On sale → fixed-price purchase transfers instantly
• Expiry + grace period → renewal window before returning to available
• Revocation → permanent, irreversible removal from reuse

Who it's for

Celestials targets both users and builders in modular and multi-chain environments:

• Users get a consistent identity that follows them across networks.
• Developers get a unified naming layer for cross-chain UX: profiles, payments, address books, and reverse resolution.

Celestials is, at its core, a naming system that treats multi-chain modular identity as the default - not an edge case.