teia.cafeChannels
Open and closed channels, DMs, and token-gated threads. Membership by list, or by Merkle tree for groups in the thousands. Messages sit on chain, or on IPFS when they run long. Unencrypted in v1.
KT19VtkiKbg69tQW2iVkpRLc9h3mkS8y9MMwEst. 2021Incorporated 2023Tezos
We prototype in public.
Teia keeps what works.
teia.cafe is the research arm of teia.art — the community-owned, DAO-governed marketplace for Tezos art.
13Things shipped
9Adopted into teia.art
0Databases · logins · trackers
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On air
The radio. Press play: these are audio tokens minted by artists on Tezos, read from a public feed, with no account and nothing behind it.
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How we work
The constraint is the product.
Everything we make reads from and writes to the chain — Tezos for the record, IPFS and Arweave for anything too large to sit there. There is no database behind any of it. Nothing to sign up for, and nothing about you for us to keep.
That is not austerity for its own sake. A calendar you subscribe to as plain .ics03 keeps working whether or not we do. Messages in a channel01 belong to the people who wrote them. A playlist11 is a token you hold, not a row we could delete.
Method
Ship here first
We move at studio speed on teia.cafe. teia.art adopts on the DAO’s terms, once a thing has survived contact with real use.
Licence
Open source
Work lands in open repositories. The code is public readable.
Honesty
We label prototypes
Copyright registration02 records a signature and a claim. It cannot prove authorship, and we say so on the page rather than in the footnotes.
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The register
Everything we have shipped.
Each entry links to the running feature, and to the contract holding its state where there is one to point at.
Adopted into teia.art
9 entriesCopyright registration
Creators sign a licence and attach any token to it. A prototype, and we say so: the chain can prove a wallet holds a token, not that it made one. What we keep is the signature and the claim.
KT1XAiMoaddkmLUhMYMrc3ghm9uBdLgVbiFKCalendar
Community events written to chain — editable, hideable, and subscribable as a plain .ics feed your calendar app already understands.
KT1FxyjsMjNiske7KZQhRtcbTwWJQpv8bmLwWiki
Community documentation kept on chain, so the record outlives whoever is hosting it.
Moderation
An extension to Teia's multisig. Moderators approve wiki edits and calendar events without ever holding the keys.
Activity feed
Global and per-profile activity, read straight from chain rather than from an index we control.
Text mint
Mint Markdown as a token. Writing where the post itself is the asset.
Notifications
Notifications with no notification server. Read state lives in your browser and nowhere else.
Baker education
Plain explanations of who the Tezos bakers are, so choosing where to delegate isn't a coin flip.
Running on teia.cafe
4 entriesRadio
Teia's audio tokens as a continuous feed — latest, oldest, random, by artist, or from a playlist you made.
On-chain playlists
Playlists minted as tokens. Yours to keep, to move, or to hand to someone else.
KT1VsWWBsDRrrYveTuHrsULYfYu9VmA9fLRyAudio RSS
Every Teia audio feed as ordinary RSS. Paste it into any podcast app and Teia shows up next to everything else you listen to.
Sale wrapper
Wraps a sale on Teia, objkt, or akaSwap and adds a fee on top — a curator's cut, for instance — without touching the marketplace underneath.
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The studio
The work started before the company did.
teia.cafe is a C-Corp incorporated in 2023. The project it grew out of has been running since 2021.
Ryan Tanaka
Co-founder · since 2021Started the project in 2021, two years before it had a company around it.
Johannes Simon
Co-founder · since 2023Joined in 2023, the year teia.cafe was incorporated.
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Friends
Friends and partners.
Placeholder
Partner logos and credits go here. Add them to src/content/team.ts and this block renders the list.
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Contact
Building on Tezos? We are easy to reach.
For partnerships, integrations, or a look at anything in the register above — write to us, or go and use the thing directly.