TEA pre-sales launch on Coinlist, opening up a new participation channel for Chinese users to help the AI era open source incentive ecosystem Odaily Planet Daily News: The tea (TEA) agreement pre-sale has officially started on Coinlist and is open to Chinese users for participation. The subscription period is from 1:00 am on September 26, 2025 (Beijing time). The maximum number of TEA pre-sales this time is 4 billion (4% of the total), and TGE will be unlocked 100%. This project is committed to building a global open source incentive economy system and playing a role in reshaping the application development and security landscape of AI technology. The project is jointly driven by Homebrew founder Max Howell (whose development tools are used by over 100 million developers worldwide) and Timothy Lewis (founder of Ikigai). Tea's performance during the testing phase was impressive: the Assam testing network generated 385 million wallet addresses, followed by the Sepolia testing network attracting 177000 wallets that completed KYC verification and 11 million total wallet addresses, with an expected coverage of over 1 million real users. The platform has innovatively launched a commercial open source licensing mechanism, aiming to solve the "value plundering crisis" - the dilemma of large cloud service providers using open source projects for profit without giving back to the community. Through the dynamic scoring system teaRank, developers will be incentivized based on project influence, while anti tampering verification and GPG signature technology will be used to ensure application distribution security. After the mainnet goes online, TEA tokens will directly reward developers and provide multiple incentives such as staking, donations, and node participation. Node operators will receive a proportionate share of transaction fees based on their contribution to software distribution. AI is accelerating application creation at a speed that traditional app store security mechanisms cannot match. Tea ensures that the open source ecosystem becomes a transparent, incentivized, and secure infrastructure in the new era. ”Tim Lewis, co-founder of Tea and CEO of PKGX, emphasized. The token allocation plan is: 28% for incentives/airdrops, 21.8% for ecological construction and governance, and 18.6% for protocol development.