Autheo Opens the Public Economy Behind Its Internet Operating System with THEO

Following five years of development, Mainnet launch, independent security audits, and more than two million wallets created during public testing, THEO will enter the public market on August 20, 2026 through an initial listing on Hydrex, supported by Enflux and ApeBond

SHERIDAN, Wyo., Aug. 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Autheo today announced the upcoming Token Generation Event (TGE) and listing of THEO, the native utility token powering its Internet Operating System. THEO is scheduled to list on Hydrex, the Base-native Omni-Liquidity MetaDEX, on Thursday August 20, 2026, with Enflux serving as official market maker and ApeBond expected to provide an on-chain OTC bond program designed to strengthen long-term liquidity.

The launch will mark the opening of the economic layer behind an Internet Operating System under development for more than five years. Autheo has launched its Testnet, Mainnet, and Node Deployment Platform, completed independent security audits, surpassed two million wallets, 10 million transactions, and 1.1 million smart contracts on its public test network, established a global team of more than 100 contributors, and built an expanding ecosystem of technology, infrastructure, and enterprise partners.

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Autheo isn’t launching another blockchain. It’s opening the public economy behind an Internet Operating System.

Autheo coordinates compute, storage, databases, APIs, messaging, and networking across a distributed cloud mesh, using its Layer 1 blockchain specifically where verifiable trust, settlement, identity, governance, ownership, and auditability are required — combining the scalability of cloud computing with the security of blockchain.

More than infrastructure. More than a blockchain. An Internet Operating System.

Layer Zero coordinates the system. The Mesh does the work. Layer 1 provides the trust. THEO powers the economy.

Applications exchange information. THEO enables them to exchange value.

“For the past five years, our team focused on building the platform before building the market,” said Todd Mortenson, Founder and Managing Director of Autheo. “We believed the technology had to stand on its own before we introduced its public economy. Mainnet is live and the audits are complete. The launch of THEO isn’t the finish line. It’s the starting gun, the moment the world can begin participating in what we’ve built. The future of the Internet won’t be defined by isolated blockchains or centralized cloud platforms. It will be defined by Internet Operating Systems that coordinate decentralized infrastructure at global scale. This is the beginning.”

For decades, developers have assembled applications by stitching together dozens of independent services — cloud, databases, storage, networking, identity, APIs, messaging, AI, security, and blockchain. While each has advanced independently, building modern applications has become increasingly fragmented, requiring developers to manage complex stacks of disconnected infrastructure.