While AI giants like OpenAI earn hundreds of millions from user data, the creators, and everyday users see none of the benefits. @vana is changing that by introducing VRC-20: the financial infrastructure for user-owned data. Here's how Vana is building the future of data ownership and monetization 🧵
1/ As we've talked about before, Vana enables individuals to own and monetize their data through specialized pools called DataDAOs. Imagine data unions where contributors collectively negotiate with AI companies. Prominent examples: • Social data: @volaraxyz • Vehicle data: @DLPLabs • Health data: @bio_hacker_dao
Shoal Research
Shoal Research17.12.2024
Data sovereignty protocol, @withvana, launched its mainnet today and introduced the $VANA token. This marks the beginning of a new paradigm where you own and profit from your data—not Big Tech. Ultimately, Vana facilitates the aggregation of private data in ”DataDAOs" for the AI era.
2/ Introducing VRC-20: the financial foundation for user-owned data Beyond reward emissions, VRC-20 establishes data tokens as real, tradeable financial assets. This moves data beyond speculative value into practical use within a structured financial ecosystem.
vana
vana1.4.2025
At Vana, we build. We validate. We move forward. And today, we're launching Vana's next phase: A Financial System for User-Owned Data Since going live with Vana mainnet just 12 weeks ago, we’ve proven: ✅ Individuals want to own their data : 12M+ data points onboarded ✅ There is demand for user-owned data: active sales across multiple DataDAOs Now, it’s time to build the financial rails for data as an asset class 🧵👇
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