Has this been considered at any stage? There could be advantages:
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Accept DA payments directly in the stablecoin, but route the underlying demand through TIA at the protocol level — solving the abstraction problem rather than being vulnerable to it
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Capture fee revenue from DA usage and return it to TIA holders, creating the value accrual mechanism that currently doesn’t exist cleanly
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Compete directly with external stablecoins being used to pay for DA, keeping value within the ecosystem rather than leaking it out
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Strengthen the modular thesis by giving the ecosystem a native unit of account — making Celestia feel less like isolated infrastructure and more like a coherent financial layer
One fear scenario is that stablecoins route around TIA and a native stablecoin could become the mechanism through which TIA captures value rather than avoids it.