A token to unlock the potential of OSS

The value of the tea Protocol is that it creates a fully composable open-source ecosystem. The protocol accomplishes this in two distinct ways:

• First, by allowing seamless interaction between projects and their communities. This encourages network participants to submit bug or vulnerability reports to project maintainers and OSS projects to address these reports in a timely manner. This also promotes more transparent linkages between project dependencies and dependents, which may encourage cross collaboration amongst core contributors due to their mutually aligned goals.
• Second by assigning a universal score to each project to quantify its impact and orientation within the broader open source ecosystem. This promotes healthy competition amongst projects to continually improve their codebase and its usage by other packages within the ecosystem in order to increase their rank.

Full composability is achieved regardless of each OSS project’s package manager, dependencies, and dependents.

The protocol will generate fees from a variety of activities conducted by OSS projects as they onboard and interact with community members. A portion of the fees generated will accrue back to TEA token holders that remain engaged with the decentralized network.

Holding TEA tokens also allows users to participate in decentralized governance and influence key protocol decisions such as the distribution of rewards, distribution of protocol fees, and the determination of which OSS package managers should be supported by the protocol’s Proof-of-Contribution consensus mechanism.