Theta Network is a blockchain platform designed for media, entertainment, and AI-driven applications. It enables decentralised video streaming, content delivery, and data storage while integrating AI through EdgeCloud AI Services, which support generative AI models, Agentic AI frameworks for autonomous interactions, and collaborative machine learning with FedML. Its Metachain architecture allows scalable blockchain interactions, while its Edge Network provides decentralised computing for AI model deployment. The dual-token system—THETA for governance and TFUEL for transactions—powers operations, including AI-based services. With EVM compatibility, Theta supports smart contracts for AI data validation and decentralised AI applications, positioning itself as a multi-functional Web3 infrastructure.
Theta Network is a blockchain platform designed for the media and entertainment industry. It enables video and media platforms to reduce content delivery CDN costs, generate incremental revenues, and rewards end-users for sharing their storage and/or bandwidth on any PC, mobile, Smart TV, or IoT device. Theta supports Turing complete smart contracts and is fully compatible with Ethereum, allowing the development of a range of Web3 applications, including NFTs, DEX/DeFi, and DAOs, for the next generation of media and entertainment platforms.
Beyond media delivery, Theta has expanded its capabilities into artificial intelligence (AI) through its EdgeCloud AI Services, which allow developers to deploy and manage AI models on a decentralised infrastructure. These services support generative AI models like Llama 3, Stable Diffusion, and Whisper, enabling AI-driven applications to run without reliance on centralised cloud providers. Additionally, Theta’s Agentic AI framework facilitates autonomous AI-driven interactions, while its partnership with FedML supports decentralised machine learning for personalised content recommendations.
Theta Blockchain has a multi-level Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus mechanism that combines a committee of 20-30 enterprise validator nodes with a second layer of thousands of community-run guardian nodes. Validator nodes propose and finalize new blocks in the chain, while guardian nodes act as a check on malicious or non-functional validator nodes. This design makes the Theta Blockchain highly decentralized, and the thousands of guardians offer an extra layer of security. The Theta Blockchain can process 1,000 transactions per second, and its consensus mechanism is fast, green, and has virtually zero carbon footprint.
The Theta blockchain provides full support for Turing-complete smart contracts, which can enable digitized item ownership, innovative payment-consumption models, transparent royalty distributions, trustless crowdfunding mechanisms, and much more. The Theta Virtual Machine is compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine, making it easy for Ethereum-based contracts to be ported over to Theta. This means thousands of smart contract developers can easily start building on Theta, tapping into its growing user and capital base.
Theta’s AI-related features also leverage smart contracts, allowing for decentralised AI model management and data validation. AI services running on Theta’s infrastructure can be integrated into Web3 applications, ensuring transparency and decentralisation in AI decision-making processes.
Theta Metachain is a concept announced by Theta Labs in April 2022, targeted to launch on Dec 1, 2022. It is an interconnected network of blockchains, a “chain of chains,” that allows permissionless horizontal scaling of the Theta blockchain network to achieve potentially unlimited transactional throughput and block finalization time of 1-2 seconds or less. The Metachain consists of one “main chain” and an unlimited number of “subchains,” which execute transactions independently. This provides a viable path to infinitely scale the processing capacity of the Metachain. The subchain SDK will implement a built-in interchain messaging channel which connects the subchains and the main chain, allowing crypto assets like TNT20/721 tokens to flow freely across the chains. The process of creating a subchain is permissionless, meaning anyone can register and launch a subchain without Theta Labs' approval.
Theta Network has a dual token design that includes the governance token, THETA, and the operational token, TFUEL. THETA is used to stake as a validator or guardian node, contribute to block production, and protocol governance of the Theta Network. By staking and running a node, users earn a proportional amount of the new TFUEL generated. The supply of THETA is fixed at 1 billion and will never increase. TFUEL is used for on-chain operations like payments to Edge Node relayers for sharing a video stream, or for deploying or interacting with smart contracts. Relayers earn TFUEL for every video stream they relay to other users on the network. The supply of TFUEL increases annually at a fixed percentage set at the protocol level.
