Node Sale
The public offering of Autheo validator node licenses, allowing participants to purchase the right to operate validator nodes on the network.
The Autheo Node Sale is the public offering of validator node licenses for the Autheo blockchain. There are 399 sovereign validator nodes available, each earning THEO coin emissions over a 7-year schedule. Sovereign nodes can be fractionalized into Core nodes (1% of a sovereign node allocation) and Prime nodes (10% allocation), allowing participation at different investment levels. Node operators validate transactions, produce blocks, and secure the network. They can also earn supplementary income by providing decentralized compute and storage capacity through the coming Autheo Marketplace. Pricing increases across tiers as supply decreases.
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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.
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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