Core Principles

Tea is built on principles that make the future of software distribution secure, transparent, and fair. Every package and app is verifiable, every developer is tied to a real identity, and every interaction routes value back to the people and projects that keep open source alive.

Open by default: No black boxes—packages and apps are signed and auditable. Identity-native: GPG keys = developer accounts, not throwaway wallets. Aligned incentives: Usage fees, staking, and signed commits route value to maintainers, contributors, and dependencies. Real Demand, Day One

Gas: Every transaction on Tea’s OP-Stack chain consumes TEA, rewarding the Open Source stack and tying token demand to network activity. Staking (Protocol-Wide v1): Anyone can stake TEA into a single pool that backs the entire OSS graph, earning daily emissions and voting rights in teaDAO. Governance: Staked TEA = power to upgrade the protocol, tune inflation, and fund grants. Reward Wallets: Thanks to custom GPG + secp256r1 precompiles, developers can receive and even execute TEA transactions using nothing but their existing GPG key or hardware-secure r1 key—making onboarding instant for millions of coders. Zero-Knowledge ID Proofs: Tea integrates ZKPass attestations (verified through top exchanges) so rewards flow only to verified humans—real proof, zero spam. Future Repo-Level Staking: Road-mapped to let communities mint sub-tokens, govern treasuries, and funnel protocol rewards directly to their favorite projects via Brew.fun’s launchpad.