June 30, 2026 – Sheridan, USA / Wyoming
After five years in the making, Autheo is launching its decentralized operating system on the mainnet – after public testnet adoption has surpassed 1.8 million wallets, nearly 1 million smart contracts, and 8.8 million transactions.
Othio Today it officially introduced its decentralized operating system to the public: a coordination layer designed to allow the traditional web, blockchain networks, and AI agents to interact locally as a single system. The company is now launching Main network – Production environment of the network – after more than a year of public testnet activity.
A coordination layer that has never been available on the Internet before
The network wars of the 1980s and early 1990s established the principle that has shaped the Internet ever since: interoperability comes from openly deployed practical protocols, not from top-down frameworks. Criteria that won – TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS – It succeeded by being practical and deployable, and the modern Internet still depends on it. The blockchain era took a different path: each network was optimized for its own internal consistency — its own security model, consensus mechanism, APIs, SDKs, and developer tools — and the result was a fragmented landscape of largely siled chains. The rapid rise of AI agents is now amplifying this fragmentation, as a growing number of independent actors need to transact across the web, blockchain, and AI systems that were never designed to coordinate with each other.
Protocols like IBC, LayerZero, CCIP, Wormhole, and Axelar have made significant progress in chain-to-chain messaging and asset transfer – but these efforts operate at the bridging layer. Autheo approaches the problem from a different angle: a shared backbone where web services, blockchain networks, and AI agents coordinate natively on a common identity, communications, implementation, and infrastructure layer, rather than relying on bridges that pass messages between separate systems.
Meanwhile, nearly three-quarters of today’s business applications are delivered as SaaS, and identity, storage, compute, payments, and messaging already run as distributed services over the web. In other words, the Internet has quietly taken over many operating system functions. What it lacked was a layer that would allow these services — along with blockchain networks and AI agents — to interact virtually, rather than through fragile one-time integrations built for every partner, every protocol, and every chain.
The purpose of Autheo is to provide that coordination and implementation layer. Autheo OS exposes the standard functions one expects from an operating system—identity, scheduling, messaging, state, compute, storage, and execution—as open, programmable services that any application, protocol, or agent can call. The goal is an integration substrate on which Web2 systems, Web3 protocols, and AI agents can interact and collaborate without needing to know the environment the counterparty is in. For autonomous AI agents specifically, Autheo is built around an on-chain, quantum-resistant trust and identity layer — designed so agents can hold credentials, sign transactions, and invoke services without relying on external systems or exposing private keys. The two design imperatives behind the project are simple: integration and interoperability.
“We didn’t plan to build just another network,” he said. Scott Bayliss, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Autheo. “We set out to find the right relationship between the ones we already have. The body is made up of many parts. A city is many trades. Today’s Internet is many systems – each doing its job, none of them moving as a single system. With the Mainnet now in place, Autheo is the layer where web, chain and agent can finally work together.”
It was founded by long-time collaborators
Autheo was founded in July 2021 by Todd Mortenson and Scott Baylisslong-time collaborators who have built and operated multiple projects together over the past two decades.
The founders shared a simple thesis: The next phase of the Internet will be defined less by any single technology — and more by the orchestration layer that enables the traditional web, blockchain networks, and artificial intelligence to operate as a single system. Much of what ultimately matters in technology tends to start far from the noisy places — quietly, slowly, by those who wouldn’t have been the obvious choices.
Guided by this vision, the founders and engineering leadership spent the project’s first several years researching networking, ecosystems, protocol design, digital identity, post-quantum security, and decentralized orchestration before building Autheo from the ground up around four distinct architectural foundations: TheoID – Implementing Autheo’s W3C-compliant Decentralized Identifier (DID) as the primary native identity for users, services, and AI agents; PQCNetAutheo’s post-quantum identity and communications framework, built on NIST Unified Post-Quantum Cryptography, including ML-KEM (FIPS 203), ML-DSA (FIPS 204), and SLH-DSA (FIPS 205); Sovereignty Cosmos SDK layer 0 with native IBC interoperability; and Integrated, layer-1 EVM-compatible execution environmentoperates as a proof-of-stake network with staking authorization and permissioned validation eligibility, guaranteed by the finality of the CometBFT block (“Proof of Autheo”).
Solidity smart contracts can be deployed natively on Autheo or migrated from existing EVM-compatible chains, providing developers with a familiar development environment while leveraging native IBC interoperability across the broader blockchain ecosystem.
The R&D underlying the platform has also expanded the portfolio of patent families covering core architectural innovations, reflecting the team’s long-term intellectual property strategy surrounding decentralized operating systems, digital identity, interoperability, post-quantum security, and related technologies.
Network architecture and post-quantum security architecture at Autheo are led by the Chief Engineering Officer Kenneth Harperwho oversaw the design, architecture, and implementation of the platform through the public testnet and up to the mainnet launch. These efforts are supported by a multi-disciplinary organization spanning engineering, product, project management, quality assurance, infrastructure, operations, ecosystem development, developer support, business development, partnerships, marketing, global channels, finance, legal and compliance, and intellectual property. Autheo’s broader shareholder base spans approx 100 people in 25 countries — Blockchain pioneers, Fortune 500 players, and researchers from institutions like MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and Caltech. Independent security audits were completed by Halburn (testnet) and Certek (main network).
Autheo collaborates with leading infrastructure, security and ecosystem partners, including… Ziffy, Investons, Hedrex, Halborn, certec, TrustSwap, Team.Finance, useful, Monkey Bond, anti-, Evaamong others – via verification and node operations, security audits, custodians, token services, and ecosystem development.
TESTNET adoption has doubled
Autheo’s public testnet launches in 2025, and has attracted around 12% over the first 12 months 350,000 wallets and 60,000 smart contracts Where the developers tested the network. After the first phase of the mainnet was announced on May 12, 2026, its adoption accelerated. In the roughly 45 days since then, cumulative wallet addresses have increased more than 5x and smart contracts have grown more than 15x. As of today, cumulative testnet totals are:
- 1,812,088 wallet addresses
- 968,502 smart contracts
(Figures according to Autheo Network data, June 24, 2026. Can be independently verified on public testnet explorer: testnet-explorer.autheo.com · Verified contracts.)
Average daily activity over the past month was approx 30,000 new wallet addresses and 20,000 new smart contracts. The Autheo test network is now setting up more wallets and publishing more contracts in a single day than it did during the entire months of its first year. The density of nodes at this stage is unusual for a Layer 1 testnet and reflects the breadth of developer use cases the team supported throughout the build process.
“The main network is live,” he said. Todd Mortenson, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Autheo. “The industry will race to modernize post-quantum security ahead of NIST’s timeline — our developers won’t have to. We built PQC from the ground up. A single interface for web services, on-chain protocols, and AI agents. A million human developers on-chain within three years. And AI agents building side by side? Orders of magnitude larger. The orchestration layer for this future exists today.”
What’s next
With the testnet validating the architecture and the mainnet now launched, Autheo’s near-term focus is on expanding partnerships across the Web2, Web3 and AI communities and supporting creators deploying applications, agents and protocols on the platform.
Developer Access (Mainnet, Live Today):
Testnet Explorer (with verified contract source): testnet-explorer.autheo.com
For developers looking for an early route into the Mainnet ecosystem, Basic node and Master node Levels remain available at com.commerce.autheo.com (Settlement via ETH on Arbitrum). These programs provide long-term eligibility Theo Token emissions, enabling developers to start collecting THEO to build, deploy and participate in the network as the ecosystem expands. the Sovereignty verification node software (399 nodes total) has its first 275 slots fully subscribed; The remaining 124 are intended for enterprise partners and ecosystem customers. Custom build portal in autheolabs.com It is expected to be released, providing more Theo Token and validator allocations for projects deployed on the network.
Theo It is expected to become available on hedrix.fi In early July 2026, additional exchange access is expected to follow.
Additional authentication ecosystem, security, infrastructure and listing announcements are expected to be announced over the coming weeks.
About Othio
Othio It builds the Internet’s operating system — a decentralized coordination and execution layer that enables the traditional web, blockchain networks, and AI agents to interact as a single system. You use the platform W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) As its original identity framework is based on PQCNetAutheo’s quantum-resistant identity and communications infrastructure built on NIST’s unified post-quantum cryptography, including ML-KIM (FIPS 203), ML-DSA (VIPS 204)and SLH-DSA (FIPS 205). Working alongside Cosmos-based Sovereign Layer 0 and EVM-compliant Layer 1, PQCNet is designed to provide next-generation security for digital identity, communications, authentication, encryption, and trusted interactions across web, blockchain, and AI ecosystems.
Autheo integrates the sovereign Cosmos SDK Layer 0 with native IBC interoperability and an EVM-compatible Layer 1 execution environment, allowing developers to deploy Solidity smart contracts locally or migrate existing applications from other EVM-compatible networks. Founded in July 2021 by Scott Bayliss and Todd Mortenson, Autheo opened its public testnet in 2025 and launched its Mainnet in 2026.
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