Do Your Own Research, made possible.

teia.cafe Inc. builds tools for artists, collectors and the Tezos community to explore public blockchain records. Our reports bring together on-chain evidence and explain how to read it, helping you research wallets, artwork, tokens and bakers.

Rooted in the TEIA community — the successor to Hic et Nunc — we develop tools for discovering art, listening to music and understanding on-chain activity. Public browsing needs no account. Connect and sign in with your wallet to manage reports and tool balances; those account records are stored by the platform.

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Teia (Teia DAO LLC), the community our company was born from, has no official logo. The community submits them, and 100+ rotate here for equal exposure.

Analytics Tools

portfolio dashboard →previewExplore portfolio activity for artists and collectors: sales, purchases, royalties and costs for a Tezos wallet, with reports you can save to your account.wash-trading analysis →previewFlags wallets trading with themselves: sales between wallets that appear to share an owner, purchases paid for from the seller's side, and works handed back after a sale - each linked to the ledger records behind it.token project audit →previewScores a token's contracts, governance and distribution for rug-pull risk, question by question, with the research behind every question.copyright protection tool →previewSearch for visually similar artwork on supported sources and inspect the matches in a saved report. A similarity match is a starting point for review, not a finding of infringement.baker inspector →previewRates every Tezos validator on reliability and track record, and shows what your own wallet earned with the one you chose.TEIA API/RSS services →prototypeExplore the proposal for art and music data services, including APIs and RSS feeds. This prototype describes the planned service; it does not issue API keys or subscriptions.

Art, Music, NFTs (Artwork, music and public on-chain records)

radio →previewListen to audio works from TEIA, explore artists and playlists, and keep favorites in this browser. The player continues as you browse the site; radio.teia.cafe also remains available.curations →previewBrowse on-chain collections of TEIA works, explore their artists and commission terms, and play them as a gallery or radio. Creating, editing and buying through curations are not available in this preview.messages →previewConnect your wallet to read on-chain messages and send new messages or replies. Sending publishes the message on IPFS and requires confirmation in your wallet.copyright marketplace →previewBrowse artwork registrations and the usage terms declared by their wallets. Inspect the on-chain records and contact the creator to discuss permission; a listing is not a guarantee of ownership or rights.

Education

teia.cafe originally started as an independent project within TEIA's community ecosystem, as the successor of the Hic et Nunc movement in 2021. How TEIA's DAO actually runs - governance, fees, stats, licensing, bakers, documentation - all transparent and on-chain since 2022. teia.cafe has been the primary development force behind TEIA's main site since 2023, and that work has been supervised and managed by the DAO throughout - either by open poll of TEIA token holders, or through the TEIA DAO multisig, where the core team has to reach quorum before anything moves.

The DAO is run by its TEIA token holders, who count as operating members of TEIA DAO LLC.

history of Hic et Nunc and TEIA ↗liveThe most successful crypto art movement in recent memory: 100,000 mints in three months from March 2021, 500,000 within eight, and a community that outlived the platform.DAO core team ↗liveThe multisig that manages TEIA's treasury, operations and repositories. Live roster, quorum and proposals, straight from the contract.copyright registration ↗liveRecord artwork and declared usage terms on the blockchain through TEIA’s registration service.calendar ↗liveBrowse community events on teia.art. Add or edit your own events with your wallet using the full calendar service.channels ↗liveOpen TEIA’s current public channels and messaging service on teia.art. On-chain records are public; access restrictions do not make stored messages private.governance - DAO ↗liveHow the Teia DAO decides: proposals, quorum, and the vote itself.polling systems ↗liveProposals put directly to TEIA token holders. Anyone holding the token can vote, and the count is settled on-chain rather than by a moderator.data dashboards ↗liveThe DAO's numbers read straight from chain, with no analytics layer in between.DAO-managed fees ↗liveFees set and moved by vote, not by an operator.baker marketplace ↗liveWho the Tezos bakers are, in plain language, and how to pick one.wiki CMS ↗liveA fully functional content management system on the blockchain, with administrative powers (proposals, approvals) that come directly from the DAO.NFT blogging ↗liveMarkdown as a token - the post is the asset, and it outlives the host.token-gated comments ↗liveOnly holders can join the thread. Own an edition and you can post; everyone else reads. Applies to every work on TEIA, not a chosen few.multisig moderation tools ↗liveA moderation layer that runs purely from the DAO multisig: decisions are proposed and approved on-chain by the core team, with no moderator server in between.

About

teia.cafe Inc. was started as a company to support the activities and efforts around the Teia arts community - the successor to the legendary Hic et Nunc movement of 2021. Teia was born in 2022 as a democratized fork of HEN, formalized into a non-profit DAO, TEIA DAO LLC. teia.cafe began in 2023 as a music-focused project for Teia and was incorporated as its own C-Corp in 2025.

Our tools combine public blockchain records with services that make them easier to explore. Artwork and community records come from the chain and IPFS; saved reports, tool balances and account sessions are managed by the platform. One wallet sign-in connects you to your account across the tools.

We're a two-person founding team: Ryan Tanaka (CEO/COO, crypto since 2013) and Johannes Simon (CTO, full-stack developer with systems architecture expertise). As core members of the Teia DAO multisig, we work at the intersection of community, commerce, and infrastructure - liaising with investors, foundations, DeFi partners, and the wider Tezos ecosystem to keep everything aligned.

For investors (roadmap, future projects, research topics, financials): pitch.teia.cafe ↗

Contact

Questions, collaborations, or anything on-chain? Email us, or - if you have a Tezos wallet - message either of us directly on chain.

✉ info@teia.cafe github.com/teia-cafe ↗

Ryan Tanaka, CEO/COO
teia.art/ryangtanaka
ryangtanaka.tez · tz1ZVzMVj6EjRoDNFMCguG7nGdqmD7aau9kS
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Johannes Simon, CTO
teia.art/jorion
tecca.tez · tz1ZhteLTqobRVCYsPj44oFfom5BJ2SdGxeE
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