EP. 220 - Tea Protocol: Rewarding Open-Source Heroes | Timothy Lewis (CEO & Co-Founder)

In this episode of DevNTell we are joined by Timothy Lewis who is the Co-Founder and CEO of Tea Protocol. Tea is the permissionless network powering the future of open source. Tea anchors open source in cryptography and turns every signed commit into part of a global economy. Viewers of this DevNTell will get to meet Timothy, learn about Tea Protocol and how you can get started using it today! — TIMESTAMPS (00:00) Intro (00:29) Welcoming Timothy Lewis, Co-Founder and CEO of Tea Protocol (02:20) Timothy Lewis Backstory (04:16) Crypto And Ethereum Journey (09:26) Why Open Source Matters (12:28) Valuing Open Source Contributions In AI Era (16:04) What Is Tea Protocol (17:09) PKGX And Rewards Graph (21:31) Layer Two For Software (26:36) Anti Sybil Verification And Global Community (28:58) AI Is New Compute (29:27) AI Harnesses vs. Models (30:21) Tooling Matures Fast (31:44) Context Engineering Era (32:36) Supply Chain Onchain (33:39) Agent Identity And Payments (35:33) Future Of Engineering (38:15) Audits Against Inference Attacks (41:02) Tea Protocol Vision (43:19) Tea Protocol Alpha (45:10) Retroactive Grants And Rewards (46:47) Developer Identity And Bounties (48:08) Progressive Decentralization (50:25) Founder Advice — GUEST & HOST 🤝 Timothy Lewis, Co-Founder & CEO @ Tea Protocol - https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothythomaslewis 🤝 Narb, DevNTell Host @ Developer DAO - https://x.com/narb_s — RESOURCES Episode Links ℹ️ Website - https://tea.xyz/ ℹ️ GitHub - https://github.com/teaxyz ℹ️ White paper - https://docs.tea.xyz/tea-white-paper ℹ️ Tea Protocol X Account - https://x.com/teaprotocol 🎙️ Subscribe on Spotify - https://devdao.to/dvt-spotify 🎙️ Subscribe on Apple Podcasts - https://devdao.to/dvt-apple ☁️ Get started with D_D Cloud - https://devdao.to/dd-cloud 🗞️ Subscribe to our Newsletter - https://devdao.to/yt-newsletter 📆 Sign-up for FREE workshops & events - https://devdao.to/yt-events 🤝 Partner with Developer DAO - https://devdao.to/partner-with-us 😎 Follow us on X - https://devdao.to/yt-twitter 🎥 Sign Up to Showcase your Project DevNTell - https://devdao.to/devntell-signup