$TIA's first sovereign aggregation Forma is live today, and the mint activity for genesis NFTs is now truly open, seven days, unlimited.

Bridge $TIA to Forma: http://bridge.forma.art

Mint address: https://modularium.art/

Forma is a sovereign aggregation for NFTs and on-chain creations. It will have an NFT market (NFTs priced in TIA) and new tools for on-chain creators.

It uses Celestia for DA/consensus, Astria for sorting, Stride+Hyperlane for bridging, TIA for gas processing, and EVM.

Forma is a Rollapp built with a complete modular technology stack, which means that the vision of the Celestia network has been realized from idea to implementation.

These technology stacks include:

Native gas: $TIA

Execution environment: EVM

Settlement layer: Forma itself

Decentralized sorting layer: Astria

Bridge network: Stride chain + Hyperlane's contract

Consensus/DA: Celestia

Importantly, TIA plays a central role on Forma. Although Forma uses EVM, TIA is both the native gas token and used to price NFTs.

As a sovereign rollup, Forma needs to publish transactions to Celestia. Therefore, it makes sense to charge users gas fees in the form of TIA.

For TIA to become a modular currency, it needs to become a base pair for assets in the Celestia ecosystem. NFTs are priced in TIA, and modular tokens are paired with TIA.