tea

Empowering OSS developers with decentralized rewards for their contributions. Layer 2 for open source.

[tea @teaprotocol]

You asked "wen?".

Now it’s official.

Voting opens on Aerodrome May 28.
The Tea Party Begins June 4.

$TEA is launching on Aerodrome.

The course to $TEA is set.

*CEX listings to be announced in the upcoming weeks.

[tea @teaprotocol]

“A verdict isn't auditable if someone can quietly change it later.”

@OpensourceWtf is combining source analysis, sandbox execution, and public onchain verdicts to make package risk easier to inspect while releases are still moving through the software supply chain.

A strong community-built use of tea.

Read the full article ↓

[opensource.wtf @OpensourceWtf]

https://t.co/Ox1aKvlUiP

[tea @teaprotocol]

8/ Explore @OpensourceWtf.

Share feedback with the builders.

And to the team behind it:

thank you for building.

Read the full Community Spotlight on the tea blog: https://t.co/fRSndXR2dg

[tea @teaprotocol]

1/ Community Spotlight: OpenSource WTF is live.

@OpensourceWtf is a community-built app that gives people a new way to explore open-source package activity, leaderboard movement, and what is being published across the software graph.

[tea @teaprotocol]

7/ This is how ecosystems become real.
Builders launch. The community explores. Feedback comes back. More experiments begin.
Community apps matter. Builder experiments matter. Making the software graph more visible matters.

[tea @teaprotocol]

OpenSource WTF is live.

Built by the community, @OpensourceWtf turns open-source package activity into something people can explore, compare, and discuss.

This is the kind of builder energy tea was made to support.

Not every useful surface around tea has to come from the core team.

Community apps matter.

Builder experiments matter.

Making the software graph more visible matters.

Explore OpenSource WTF.

And to the builders behind it:

thank you for building.

[opensource.wtf @OpensourceWtf]

The OpenSourceWTF Leaderboard is live.

A leaderboard and visibility service for Open Source Software:
- See what is being published.
- Explore package updates.
- Follow activity across the ecosystem.

Open source runs the internet, but its activity is hard to see in one place until now.

https://t.co/vPjLV4dIUS

Supports @npmjs and @pypi

Built by the around @teaprotocol by the community.

[tea @teaprotocol]

https://t.co/ELvP65Ih1Q would like to register 4 employees with CoinMarketCap using https://t.co/ELvP65Ih1Q email domains to manage the project's self-reporting dashboard

[tea @teaprotocol]

Rewards Update

We know people are waiting for the airdrop, and we want to give a clear update on where things stand.

The rewards process has taken longer than planned for two main reasons.

The first is fairness.

We have received over 3,000 appeals, and the team is reviewing them carefully. That process takes time, but it matters. We would rather do the work properly than rush through appeals and risk getting the distribution wrong for genuine participants.

The second is utility.

tea is a utility-first network, so we do not want the airdrop to happen in isolation. We want it to land alongside the new website experience, so people have somewhere useful to go and something real to do with their tokens.

The site is currently in bugfixing mode. Until that is finished and the appeals review is further along, we cannot give a specific date with confidence.

We know waiting is frustrating.

But the work is active.

Appeals are being reviewed. The site is being finalized. The distribution is being handled carefully.

The goal is a fair drop for real participants, not a rushed drop that creates more problems later.

Thank you for sticking with us while we get this right.

[tea @teaprotocol]

Only 8 hours left.

The rewards eligibility period is closing.

If you participated in ITN, Assam, or Sepolia, check your eligibility now:

https://t.co/8uBhoPh2lw

Use only the official link.

Do not trust links in replies, DMs, or unofficial posts.

[tea @teaprotocol]

A live L2 is not one switch.

It is a stack.

Some parts are already operating.

Native TEA bridging.
L2 transfers.
Explorer access.
Public RPC.
Ethereum settlement contracts.
Withdrawals back to Ethereum.

Each one is a layer that makes the network more usable.

And the stack keeps expanding.

The point is not to call everything finished on day one.

The point is to show what is live, keep shipping what comes next, and make the path forward visible.

[tea @teaprotocol]

An L2 is not just an execution environment.

It needs settlement underneath it.

Tea L2 is configured to settle to Ethereum mainnet.

The portal, bridge, and fault-proof system contracts are deployed on Ethereum.

That matters because the network is not floating in isolation.

It has a foundation beneath it.

That is what turns a chain from a surface into infrastructure.

[tea @teaprotocol]

A bridge is only useful if the path back exists.

Tea L2 withdrawals back to Ethereum are live.

A full round-trip has already been completed and finalized onchain.

Like other Optimism-style networks, withdrawals include a finalization window before funds settle back on Ethereum.

That wait is part of the security model.

Not a defect.

Tea L2 has a working path in, and a working path back.

[tea @teaprotocol]

From holding to using.

For $TEA, that path starts with the native bridge.

Tea L2 is configured to settle to Ethereum mainnet.

The portal, bridge, and fault-proof contracts are deployed on Ethereum.

That matters because Tea L2 is not an isolated environment.

It is live infrastructure with settlement machinery anchored to Ethereum.

The next phase is not about claiming utility in abstract.

It is about showing the parts of the stack that are already live.

[tea @teaprotocol]

$TEA on Aero Ignition explained.

AERO can be locked into veAERO.

veAERO voters help direct emissions.

Incentives support voting activity.

Emissions help attract liquidity.

Liquidity helps markets form onchain.

[tea @teaprotocol]

DEX launch does not mean narrow access.

$TEA liquidity is live on Aerodrome and indexed, wallet swap interfaces and DEX aggregators can route toward the pool.

That expands access across Coinbase/Base wallet routes, Binance Wallet, OKX Wallet, and Trust Wallet.

One pool.

Multiple wallet routes.

Official token details will come through tea channels only.