Allocations and emissions

Autheo’s supply architecture is designed to create a balanced, transparent, and sustainable token economy. The total supply of 7 billion THEO is distributed across ecosystem, infrastructure, validator, and community tracks that align with long-term network participation and operational growth. Distribution schedules prioritize gradual release through extended cliffs and linear vesting, reducing volatility and encouraging long-term engagement from builders, validators, and contributors. Performance-weighted emissions ensure that validators and infrastructure providers receive rewards based on uptime, reliability, and service metrics rather than pure stake alone. By combining predictable emissions with performance-weighted rewards, Autheo ensures that circulating supply expands in step with genuine network activity and adoption rather than speculation:

• Total supply: 7,000,000,000 THEO
• Initial supply available at launch: ~371,000,000 THEO (~5.3%)
• Launch-available sources: Liquidity Reserve (100% at TGE), Launch Related (50% at TGE), Validator Node rewards already emitted pre-launch

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1. THEO token allocation

Design notes:

• Long cliffs and extended linear vesting reduce short-term supply shocks.
• Liquidity Res is fully unlocked at TGE to support CEX/DEX provisioning and market depth. Of the 350,000,000 THEO Liquidity Reserve allocation, 50,000,000 THEO has been bridged to Base and deployed for initial trading at launch; the remaining balance is not immediately entering the tradable market and will be deployed over time to support additional market depth as needed.
• Emissions for Validator Nodes, Ecosystem, Infra Nodes, and DevHub Economy Rewards pools are performance-weighted and contingent on uptime and service metrics (Block Rewards). The Validator Nodes row above shows 0% TGE unlock under the formal vesting schedule, but 3,500,000 THEO of Validator Node rewards were already emitted via block rewards prior to launch (the Validator Node program was operational pre-TGE). That amount is not reflected in the “Token amount TGE” column, but is included in the total available-at-launch figure in Section 1.1 below; the remainder of the 525,000,000 THEO Validator Node allocation continues to release through ongoing block emissions.
• Strategic Operations, Team Allocation, and other non-emission pools are premined via smart contracts with defined vesting schedules.
• The “Token amount TGE” column and Overall total (367,500,000 THEO) reflect only tokens unlocked directly by the formal vesting schedule at TGE. Combined with the 3,500,000 THEO of Validator Node rewards already emitted pre-launch, total tokens available at launch reach 371,000,000 THEO (5.3% of total supply) — see Section 1.1 for the full reconciliation.

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1.1 Initial circulation and vesting overview

Autheo’s token release strategy is structured to balance accessibility with sustainability. Early liquidity is provided to support exchange depth, validator onboarding, and ecosystem activation, while the majority of supply remains locked under extended cliffs and long-term vesting. This approach ensures alignment among contributors, investors, and builders, maintaining orderly market dynamics as the network scales. At launch (Token Generation Event, or TGE), approximately 5.3% of total supply (approximately 371,000,000 THEO) is available, made up of three components: These are three separate allocation buckets with different purposes and recipients: the Liquidity Reserve underpins market infrastructure, Launch Related represents early participant entitlements, and Validator Node rewards already emitted reflect network operation prior to launch. All three reconcile to the same 371,000,000 THEO (5.3%) total available at launch. All other allocations remain subject to their defined cliffs and linear monthly vesting schedules, aligning long-term incentives among contributors, validators, and builders while minimizing short-term supply shocks.

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2. Emissions and circulating growth (10-year horizon)

Autheo’s token emission model is structured to balance network growth with long-term deflationary discipline. Rather than relying on perpetual inflation, THEO’s supply curve is front-loaded for expansion — driving validator onboarding, developer incentives, and infrastructure activation — then progressively transitions toward fee-funded sustainability through the Autheo Storage & Compute Fund (ASCF) and productive-deflation mechanisms. This ten-year schedule (2025 TGE through 2035) defines the cadence by which cumulative supply enters circulation across three phases — Expansion, Scaling, and Maturity — aligning with key operational milestones in validator performance, DevHub engagement, and ecosystem maturity. Each phase compounds network productivity while simultaneously reducing dependency on inflationary issuance, creating a self-reinforcing liquidity cycle that supports compute and storage capacity. Adaptive parameters ensure the system remains resilient to market conditions. The emission policy begins within a controlled inflation band (~13% to ~10%) and can be refined by the Autheo Foundation and core development team within predefined limits. As ASCF reserves expand through transaction and compute fees, the share of emissions funded by inflation decreases correspondingly, sustaining validator and developer rewards through organic network activity.

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High-level schedule (phase milestones)

Adaptive controls

• A dynamic emission curve tapers base inflation (~13% to ~10% band) as fee-backed reserves accumulate.
• Emission policy is administered by the Autheo Foundation and core development team, which can adjust it within predefined bands.

Taken together, emissions tapering and ASCF fee routing are intended to maintain liquidity for operation while steadily replacing inflationary rewards with fee-funded incentives. Activity is thus directed back into validators, infrastructure capacity, and builder programs without asserting fixed rates or outcomes.