tea, the open-source L2 designed to make open-source work more visible, verifiable, governable, and supportable, announced today that its mainnet and $TEA token will go live at 00:00 UTC on June 4. At launch, $TEA will begin trading on Aerodrome, alongside centralized exchange listings on MEXC, Gate, and KuCoin.
The launch marks a major step in tea's mission to build economic infrastructure for open source. Open source already powers modern software but the value layer around it remains fragmented. tea is built for that gap. The tea network and $TEA token facilitate a programmable reward and value exchange layer, enabling developers, maintainers, and supporters to register projects, understand dependencies, and make claims. It uses Proof of Contribution and teaRank to measure impact across the dependency graph.
"Open source already powers the software economy," said Tim Lewis, co-founder of tea. "The missing piece has been infrastructure that can make open-source value more visible, verifiable, governable, and supportable. With tea mainnet and $TEA going live, that system is entering the market."
Aerodrome, the onchain launch venue, brings $TEA into Base's liquidity hub through a vote-driven market formation system. Onchain liquidity ensures transparent market depth and enables wallet interfaces and DEX aggregators to route users toward available liquidity once pools are live and indexed. This makes $TEA accessible through wallet routes including Coinbase Wallet, Binance Wallet, OKX Wallet, and Trust Wallet.
$TEA goes live at 00:00 UTC on June 4. tea mainnet goes live. Trading begins on Aerodrome, MEXC, Gate, and KuCoin.