Autheo Marketplace
The mechanism by which Autheo's control plane matches infrastructure supply from providers with application demand from developers, coordinating discovery, policy, scheduling, execution, and settlement.
The Autheo Marketplace connects the supply side (infrastructure providers contributing compute, storage, and edge capacity) with the demand side (developers and applications requesting resources). The control plane coordinates this through eight stages: discovery, identity, authentication, policy, scheduling, marketplace match, execution, and settlement. Settlement and incentives flow through THEO, the network's utility coin. The marketplace for compute and storage capacity is rolling out on mainnet over the coming months.
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Node Sale
The public offering of Autheo validator node licenses, allowing participants to purchase the right to operate validator nodes on the network.
View definition →Staking
Staking is the process of locking cryptocurrency tokens in a blockchain network to support its operations — such as validating transactions and securing consensus — in exchange for earning rewards. On Autheo, staking THEO coins allows participants to run validator nodes that power the Layer-1 and receive THEO emissions from the validator pool.
View definition →THEO Coin
THEO is the native coin of the Autheo Layer-1 mainnet, used for validator staking, gas and transaction fees, and future compute, storage, and AI inference payments as those roll out. It is not an ERC-20 token on its home chain, the same way ETH is native to Ethereum, though a bridged token representation of THEO is also available on other chains via decentralized exchanges, currently Base (via Hydrex) and Robinhood Chain (via Uniswap). THEO is a utility coin, not a governance asset.
View definition →Token vs. Coin
A coin is the native asset of its own blockchain, used for gas and settlement on that chain, with no smart contract address on its home network. A token is an asset issued through a smart contract on top of someone else's chain, such as an ERC-20 asset deployed on Ethereum.
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