Tea Protocol

What is Tea

Tea is basically a macOS package manager that replaces Homebrew, but it is much more advanced and secure than an average package manager. Tea was developed on Base, the layer-2 blockchain of Coinbase because of the security that blockchain offers and the similarity in structure between open source packages and blockchain.

It is now easily possible to distribute sponsorship funds all the way down the dependency tree thanks to blockchain technology. Sponsorships typically cover only a portion of the dependencies, which eliminates the issue of low-visibility projects not receiving funding.

Tea's primary goal is to increase the software supply chain's sustainability and integrity by letting open-source developers keep the value they generate. It gives the developers a possibility to work in a trustless environment, a decentralized and unified package manager that offers incentives for their contributions. 

Tea uses a unique algorithm known as "Proof of Contribution" in conjunction with blockchain technology and other protocols to equitably divide the funds among the projects based on their respective values. A project's impact is measured by the "Proof of Contribution" algorithm, which gives each project a daily teaRank - a dynamic score which is made to reflect the overall impact of a project. 

What is behind Tea Protocol

The overall idea of Tea Protocol is based on the action of staking $TEA tokens. Every action that network users do, such as endorsing or commenting on a project, requires them to stake their tokens. Participants may win or lose tokens based on their actions. For open-source projects, the quantity of $TEA tokens staked by network users serves as a reputation indicator.

Tea Network divides its participants into four main entities: package maintainers, package users and tea community members, project supporters, and vulnerability reporters.

Package maintainers make sure that when the market changes, their product keeps providing more and more value. If they don't address reported bugs, they risk losing TEA tokens. 

Package users and tea community members receive benefits in $TEA tokens directly from package maintainers by using and experimenting with open-source projects. These users basically stake TEA tokens in projects in order to support them and help them establish credibility. 

Project supporters are those who utilize open-source software to create commercial applications. They seek to provide funding to teams that create the necessary components. Donations are made using $TEA.

Vulnerability reporters are those who prepared to put in the time and efforts to review projects. For every review, vulnerability reporters are required to stake TEA tokens first, and  depending on the quality of their reviews, they can receive tokens or incur penalties afterwards.

Tea Network Airdrop 

As it was already mentioned before, $TEA token serves as a cornerstone of Tea Protocol’s distinctive reward mechanism, stimulating growth within the open-source software community. As the token is not released in on a mainnet so far, farming some $TEA right now is a great idea. By completing activities like staking, referrals, governance you are earning $TEA, which are going to be converted once their own token is released. Check out our step-by-step guide in order not to miss this unique chance.