SHERIDAN, Wyo., Sept. 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Autheo today announced that THEO, the native utility token of its Internet Operating System, is scheduled to launch on Uniswap v3 on Robinhood Chain on Thursday, September 10 — extending Autheo’s economic layer into Robinhood’s permissionless, AI-native Layer 2 blockchain built to bring traditional markets, crypto, and real-world assets together onchain.

September 10 marks the next step in Autheo’s deployment phase. THEO is scheduled to become available for trading on Uniswap that day, extending the network’s economic layer into an emerging financial environment designed around programmable assets, decentralized markets, AI agents, and onchain financial infrastructure.

The launch marks a transition that has been underway since Autheo Mainnet went live on May 14, 2026. Autheo is moving from the years spent building its network into the phase of putting that network to work — releasing the developer platforms, decentralized infrastructure, AI capabilities, and economic services designed to make an Internet Operating System something developers build on rather than read about.

CUTTING THE GORDIAN KNOT

Every generation of technology promises to connect what came before it, yet the technology landscape has become increasingly fragmented as new platforms, networks, and systems have been added. Autheo was founded on a different premise: rather than add another layer to that fragmentation, build the common foundation beneath it where coordination can happen natively.

“The technology landscape has tied itself into a Gordian Knot,” said Scott Bayless, Founder and Managing Director of Autheo. “Every new platform, cloud, chain, application, protocol, and proprietary ecosystem promises another capability, but too often adds another silo, another integration, and another form of lock-in. With each new layer, the knot gets tighter. We keep answering fragmentation with more connectors — bridges, middleware, APIs, wrappers, interoperability networks — until connecting technology becomes nearly as complex as the technology itself. Autheo was built around a different idea: stop trying to untangle the knot one connection at a time. Some problems are not solved by pulling harder at the same threads, but by seeing the problem differently. Change the premise. Cut through it from beneath. The Internet already performs many of the functions we associate with an operating system, but they evolved across separate platforms, protocols, networks, and infrastructure. What it has never had is a common decentralized layer to coordinate, orchestrate, and execute across them. That is what we mean by an Internet Operating System — a foundation designed to bring compute, storage, networking, identity, security, AI, blockchain, and economic services into a more interoperable environment. We’re building beneath the fragmentation rather than adding another connector between its pieces. And once that foundation exists, developers shouldn’t have to reinvent everything above it either.”

WHY UNISWAP ON ROBINHOOD CHAIN

Robinhood Chain is a permissionless, AI-native, Ethereum-compatible Layer 2 developed on Arbitrum infrastructure and built for financial services and tokenized real-world assets. Its architecture combines Ethereum compatibility and security with 100-millisecond block times and an environment designed for developers building financial applications, real-world asset infrastructure, and AI-powered experiences.

Uniswap v2, v3, v4, and UniswapX have been available on Robinhood Chain since its public mainnet launch, with Uniswap serving as the network’s primary public automated market maker. THEO is scheduled to become available for trading against ETH through a Uniswap v3 liquidity pool on Robinhood Chain on September 10.

One of Robinhood Chain’s defining elements is Stock Tokens — standard ERC-20 tokenized debt securities that provide economic exposure to underlying securities such as U.S. shares and ETFs without conveying legal or beneficial ownership of the underlying securities. Stock Tokens can be held, transferred, and composed into onchain applications, with live Chainlink price feeds enabling smart contracts to read prices directly onchain.

The result is a programmable financial environment in which traditional-market exposure, digital assets, decentralized trading and lending, real-world assets, and autonomous software can increasingly interact within the same onchain ecosystem.

DIFFERENT LAYERS, SAME CONVERGENCE

For Autheo, that direction is not incidental to the decision to bring THEO to Robinhood Chain.

Robinhood Chain is breaking down boundaries between financial systems and assets that historically operated separately — bringing traditional-market exposure, cryptocurrencies, decentralized finance, tokenized real-world assets, and increasingly autonomous financial activity into a common onchain environment.

Autheo was built around the same underlying principle at a broader technological layer.

Rather than beginning with financial markets, Autheo begins with the fragmented infrastructure beneath the modern Internet — platforms, clouds, blockchains, applications, protocols, compute, storage, networking, identity, security, AI, and economic systems that were largely built separately and frequently require additional layers of integration to work together.

Different scope, same underlying philosophy: technologies that were created separately can become more useful when they can discover, communicate, coordinate, and transact as parts of a larger environment.

That alignment is a principal reason Autheo chose Robinhood Chain as the next environment for THEO.

“Robinhood Chain represents something much larger than another blockchain,” said Todd Mortenson, Founder and Managing Director of Autheo. “We are watching the boundaries that defined technology and finance for decades begin to dissolve. A share of stock is turning into a live, programmable instrument instead of a static certificate sitting in a back office. Markets are becoming always-on networks that never close. AI agents are becoming economic participants in their own right. Digital assets, decentralized finance, and traditional markets are starting to operate in the same environment for the first time.

Autheo was built for that convergence. We are building the operating layer that can coordinate applications, AI, identity, infrastructure, networks, and economic activity across all of it. Robinhood Chain is approaching that future through financial markets. Autheo is approaching it through the infrastructure beneath them. Bringing THEO into that environment puts our economy closer to where we believe the internet itself is heading.”

Extending THEO to Robinhood Chain places the Autheo economy within another programmable environment alongside emerging decentralized-finance, tokenized-asset, and agentic-finance infrastructure. Over time, Autheo expects interoperability across networks to allow developers and applications to access economic services without treating individual chains as isolated ecosystems.

FROM BUILDING THE NETWORK TO BUILDING ON THE NETWORK

Autheo Mainnet is live, and THEO is in circulation. As of early September 2026, the network has grown to more than 2.2 million wallet addresses, 1.2 million smart contracts, and 10.7 million transactions — activity independently verifiable through Autheo’s public Mainnet explorer.

But launching the network was never the destination. It was the foundation.

After five years of development, the work now shifts from building the network itself to putting more of what was built beneath it into the hands of developers — infrastructure designed to let applications draw on capabilities that today are often assembled across separate clouds, networks, protocols, and service providers.

That next phase includes the continued rollout of Autheo DevHub as a primary entry point for developers and expansion of the Mesh — Autheo’s distributed compute, storage, networking, and AI execution layer — alongside decentralized compute and storage services, AI orchestration, token infrastructure, identity services, and an Infrastructure Marketplace through which providers can contribute resources and earn for supplying them.

As those capabilities come online, additional network integrations, market access, developer tools, and applications are expected to expand what can be built and coordinated through the Autheo environment.

The objective is straightforward: developers should not have to rebuild the Internet every time they build an application.

Autheo is designed to provide more of the common foundation beneath applications so builders can spend less time assembling and integrating the infrastructure around what they want to create — and more time creating what is actually theirs.

THEO AND THE ECONOMY BEHIND THE NETWORK

THEO is the economic coordination layer of the Internet Operating System — the asset through which developers and applications consume infrastructure, providers earn for supplying productive resources, validators participate in securing the network, and economic activity is settled across the ecosystem.

As the Mesh, Autheo.dev, AI services, Infrastructure Marketplace, and other capabilities come online, THEO is designed to connect the demand and supply sides of a productive infrastructure economy. Developers and applications create workloads; compute, storage, GPU, networking, and other infrastructure providers supply capacity; the Marketplace coordinates that capacity; and THEO provides the settlement and incentive layer connecting them.

The objective is not token activity for its own sake. It is an economy in which THEO increasingly circulates because useful work is being performed — applications are deployed, infrastructure is consumed, providers are paid, and network and Marketplace activity create recurring economic flows. As usage grows, the same circulating THEO can move repeatedly through buyers, providers, Marketplace transactions, and network activity without requiring new issuance for each transaction.

THEO has a fixed maximum supply of 7 billion tokens, governed by deployed on-chain smart contracts. Half of the total supply is allocated to block-emission pools that progressively activate ecosystem growth, infrastructure providers, validators, and the developer economy. The remaining half was premined at genesis and is subject to smart-contract vesting schedules covering team, strategic operations, liquidity, reserves, treasury, sales, advisory, and launch-related allocations.

The economic model is designed to evolve from emissions bootstrapping network participation toward an increasingly usage-funded economy: emissions help activate validators, infrastructure supply, and builders; additional compute and storage expand network capacity; developers and applications create workloads; and Marketplace and network activity generate recurring THEO-denominated economic flows.

Autheo’s global contributor network today includes approximately 100 people spanning blockchain engineering, AI, distributed systems, cryptography, cybersecurity, product, finance, legal, and operations, supported by an ecosystem of infrastructure, security, development, liquidity, and technology relationships including Zeeve, InfStones, CertiK, Halborn, Utila, Antier, and Enflux.

THEO holders will also be able to participate through staking on Autheo Mainnet, with staking expected to open soon through Autheo’s wallet-based interface. Participants will be able to stake THEO directly from supported wallets and earn rewards under the applicable staking pool contract, without operating a validator node or other infrastructure.

BUILD ON AUTHEO

Developers can build and deploy on Autheo Mainnet today. The network provides an EVM-compatible environment supporting Solidity smart contracts and familiar Ethereum tooling, alongside the Layer 0, Mesh, identity, interoperability, AI, and economic infrastructure being deployed across the platform.

Developer and Network Resources:

Autheo: https://www.autheo.com
Developer Documentation: https://docs.autheo.com
Mainnet Explorer: https://evm-explorer.autheo.com
Mainnet Chain ID: 2127
Mainnet RPC: https://rpc1.autheo.com
Robinhood ↔ Autheo Mainnet Bridge: https://hyper.autheo.com
Stake THEO: https://www.autheo.com/staking
Prime & Core Validator Nodes: https://commerce.autheo.com

ABOUT AUTHEO

Autheo is building the Internet Operating System — a decentralized coordination, orchestration, and execution layer designed to bring compute, storage, networking, identity, security, AI, blockchain, and economic services into a more interoperable, programmable environment for applications.

Founded by Scott Bayless and Todd Mortenson and built over five years, Autheo today has approximately 100 people working across 25 countries. Autheo combines an EVM-compatible Mainnet with a broader Layer 0 architecture and distributed infrastructure designed to reduce the fragmentation developers face across networks, platforms, protocols, and service providers. Autheo Mainnet has been live since May 14, 2026, and THEO is the network’s native economic asset.

Autheo is stewarded across Autheo LLC, Autheo Labs LLC, THEO Token Ltd, and the Autheo Foundation.

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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This release contains forward-looking statements, including regarding the anticipated September 10 launch of THEO on Uniswap v3 on Robinhood Chain, staking availability, platform and infrastructure releases, network integrations, market access, developer adoption, interoperability, token utility, and roadmap objectives. These statements are subject to market, regulatory, liquidity, technical, operational, and other risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially.

References to third-party platforms, networks, protocols, products, and organizations describe integrations, relationships, or publicly available technologies, as applicable, and do not imply endorsement, sponsorship, affiliation, or partnership unless expressly stated. Nothing in this release constitutes an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy any security or other financial instrument, or investment, legal, tax, or financial advice. Availability may vary by jurisdiction and may be subject to eligibility requirements or other restrictions.

Autheo undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements except as required by applicable law.


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