THEO Coin

THEO is the native coin of the Autheo Layer-1 mainnet, in the same way ETH is native to Ethereum or SOL is native to Solana. It is the base gas and settlement asset of Autheo's own EVM-compatible chain, not a smart contract deployed on top of another network. THEO is NOT a governance asset.

THEO has six primary uses: validator staking (7.5% of the 7 billion total supply distributed over 7 years), compute payments (paying for decentralized compute workloads through the coming Autheo Marketplace), storage allocation through the coming Autheo Marketplace, AI inference (THEO AI compute costs), transaction fees (gas for all network operations), and identity operations (TheoID, formerly AutheoID, services). The total supply is 7 billion THEO. Sovereign validator nodes earn approximately 187,969 THEO per year through the linear emission schedule.

Because THEO is a native coin rather than a token, it has no smart contract address on Autheo's own chain. It cannot be looked up as a token contract on Autheo's EVM explorer because it is the base currency of the network itself, not an asset issued through a contract.

Separately, bridged and wrapped token representations of THEO also trade on other chains via decentralized exchanges, currently Base (via Hydrex) and Robinhood Chain (via Uniswap), giving traders liquidity and market access outside the Autheo mainnet. These bridged versions are legitimate tokens in the standard sense, smart contract assets on someone else's chain, distinct from the native coin that powers Autheo itself. Both facts are true at once: THEO is a coin on its home chain and is also represented as a bridged token on other chains for trading purposes.