The Missing Layer of Open Source

Everyone knows open source is the infrastructure holding up the modern world.

But almost nobody talks about the layer it’s missing: liquidity.

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Open source has value, but nowhere for that value to settle.

Developers create trillions in demand-side impact, but there’s no unified market where verified repositories can express that value, attract support, or sustain themselves.

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Tea is fixing this from the ground up.

Today, our deeper partnership with Velodrome and its evolution into Aero, powered by the MetaDEX 3 stack, brings us one step closer to that reality.

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This is where deOSS stops being theoretical and starts becoming an economy.

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Why Velodrome and Aero Matter

Velodrome has already become the de facto MetaDEX for the Superchain—battle-tested, deeply liquid, relentlessly community aligned.

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With Aero, that foundation becomes cross-chain liquidity infrastructure stretching across:

• OP Mainnet
• Base
• The broader Superchain
• And soon: Ethereum mainnet and Circle’s Arc

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For Tea, this is the perfect home:

• A network with deep liquidity
• Cross-L2 routing baked in
• Governance and incentives aligned with builders, not mercenaries
• A roadmap that scales as fast as open source itself

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Velodrome and Aero are not just DEXes.

They are the liquidity layer for the Superchain—and now, for the open source economy we’re building.

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The Two-Layer Model Tea Is Creating

Tea’s approach to open source sustainability has always had two layers.

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Layer 1 — Network-Level Funding

This is oxygen for open source:

• Repositories register on Tea
• Chai + teaRank verify importance and impact
• The transaction rewards pool routes value to ranked repositories
• Bounties incentivize issue completion
• Contributions can be tied to signed GPG commits, giving real attribution

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Layer 2 — Verified Repositories Becoming Community Assets

Some open source repositories have hundreds of millions of users. They are infrastructure, not hobby projects.

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Tea verifies these repos using:

• Existing GPG signatures
• Provenance checks
• teaRank impact modeling

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Once validated, these repositories can—when ready—launch assets on Brew.fun, representing their community and the value they create.

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Velodrome and Aero: The Liquidity Layer

Once repositories become community assets, they need a market with depth, seriousness, and cross-chain reach.

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Velodrome and Aero provide exactly that:

• Deep liquidity pools for $TEA and OSS-aligned pairs
• Cross-chain liquidity routing through MetaDEX 3
• A shared incentive system that rewards aligned participation
• A home that scales with the Superchain

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Why It Matters for Developers

This model gives OSS maintainers something they’ve never had:

A real economic engine.

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Why It Matters for Investors

This is exposure to assets rooted in real usage, real infrastructure, real verification, global communities, and a trillion-dollar demand-side economy.

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What Arrives First

At launch:

• $TEA liquidity pools on Velodrome
• Selected OSS-aligned pairs
• $TEA emissions
• Clear bridging instructions
• A pipeline for Brew.fun repository assets to plug into Aero’s liquidity layer

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How to Participate

• Watch for launch pairs
• Add liquidity
• Earn $TEA emissions
• Prepare repositories for verification
• Join Discord for updates

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As Aero and MetaDEX 3 expand across the Superchain and into Ethereum and Arc, the open source economy expands with it.

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Open source keeps the internet running. With Tea, Velodrome, and Aero, we’re giving it the liquidity layer it’s always deserved.

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