Theta Validator Annual Unstake to Accelerate Platform Growth and Decentralization

For the past several years Theta Labs has unstaked certain amounts of THETA tokens from the project treasury in order to fund ecosystem growth, decentralize the Theta protocol and expand the roster of Theta enterprise validators now up to 25 with the recent addition of Olympique De Marseille FC in addition to Google, Samsung, Sony, CAA and others.

The last 12 months were the most productive and successful ever for Theta Network and the EdgeCloud platform. EdgeCloud now counts more than 50 paying customers for decentralized GPU training and inference services, including AI labs at top global universities like Michigan State University, Seoul National University, NTU Singapore, Syracuse University and the AI research lab of Stanford University Professor Ellen Vitercik.

EdgeCloud has also become the home for development of generative and conversational AI agents for fans of top global sports brands like Olympique De Marseille FC of Ligue 1, the San Jose Earthquakes and Philadelphia Union of the MLS, the Vegas Golden Knights and New Jersey Devils of the NHL, and the NBA’s Houston Rockets. And top esports teams including Gen.G, Cloud9, NRG and others.

In August 2025 alone, over 260M LLM chatbot tokens were processed by the EdgeCloud platform across all partners, in addition to 104k+ Model API requests, majority processed by EdgeCloud clients paid in TFUEL. More importantly, over 5,000 genAI developers have registered on the EdgeCloud platform and are driving increased THETA and TFUEL utility and adoption.

Theta also made history by becoming the first decentralized platform that AWS approved to integrate its cutting-edge AI silicon, allowing EdgeCloud to run AWS’s purpose-built AI instances, powered by AWS Trainium and Inferentia. EdgeCloud can be viewed as a middleware or integration software layer that brings together the best of cloud based GPUs such as NVIDIA H100/A100s, consumer grade NVIDIA 30–40–50 series GPUs and edge devices including mobile Android phones and in the future self-driving vehicles, robots, humanoids and other IoT devices.

With strong momentum and adoption happening, now is the time to double down and build even stronger partnerships and worldwide visibility for Theta, for example, the recent Crypto.com listing, one of the leading US exchanges, custody and staking providers. To achieve this, Theta Labs plans to unstake from its treasury — 30M THETA out of the total 90M that is currently staked. This will accelerate the company’s momentum in AI, community development, CEX listings and platform adoption to further establish Theta blockchain as the leading decentralized cloud for AI, media and entertainment. These funds will be allocated to technology R&D,, customer onboarding, ecosystem incentives, conferences support including hackathon prizes, and other marketing efforts, in addition to strategic partnerships with global Telecom companies and others in 2026.

This initiative also continues moving the network toward full decentralization with Theta Labs reducing its staking percentage from 27% to 20% of the total THETA staked among all validators and guardians. These steps are ensuring Theta ecosystem becomes increasingly decentralized and less reliant on Theta Labs over time, which is important both to ensure users can trust the record of the Theta blockchain and for other strategic reasons.

The entire Theta team is excited and optimistic in the next 12 months and continue to drive Theta’s leadership position as the de-facto infrastructure and blockchain for the fast evolving AI, media and entertainment industries.

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