Work-in-progress project by Max Howell (creator of Homebrew). A package manager positioned as Homebrew's successor, backed by: a centralized package registry (protection against sabotage and hijacking), a reputation system, and a rewards engine that algorithmically scores each library's contribution to the overall utility of open source. Rewards are distributed as tokens on a proof-of-stake blockchain and flow recursively through the dependency graph so leaf nodes are not ignored. Introduces 'steeping' — staking tokens against a specific package to express support, with rewards split between the steeper, the package, and its dependencies. Participants include package maintainers, regular developers, supporters, and 'tea tasters' who validate new releases by staking tokens on their review (earning rewards for valid reviews, getting slashed for abuse, following responsible-disclosure when negative). Package submissions are atomic: registration + upload to decentralized storage + trustworthiness-backing stake. As of March 2023 the package-manager part is live and shows speed benefits over Homebrew; the broader CT design, NFT/multi-contributor model and a revised white paper are still in flux. Reportedly raised ~$90M in funding.