DATA Ecosystem

BREAKING: Today, we are excited to announce that Story is now The DATA Foundation. Story becomes DATA Network and $IP becomes $DATA. Follow our journey @datafdn and learn more about it from @devrelius and @theSYlee. x.com/devrelius/stat…

Live now with @datafdn, @devrelius, @avipat_ and @jacobmtucker! 🔥

Quick announcement on Story's ticker update 🚨 - Only the network token ticker has changed: $IP → $data. Nothing else about the network or Verio's liquid staking changes. - $vIP remains Verio's liquid staking token and continues to accrue staking rewards, meaning $vIP continues to appreciate against $data over time. Currently, 1 $vIP ≈ 1.1 $data. - We've updated the Verio app so you'll now see your $data balance (equivalent to your previous $IP balance) throughout the entire frontend, while the liquid staking token remains $vIP. Business as usual — just a new ticker for the underlying network token. Same protocol. Same yield. New ticker.

CDR is now live on our testnet, enabling the safe transfer of private data. This milestone unlocks plenty of use cases, including: 1. Private on-chain data 2. Data marketplaces 3. Purchasing outputs of AI without ever revealing input data Start building ↓

@datafdn 🗞️

Trust and safety is the biggest bottleneck in data, congrats to the Kled team, our flagship partner.

Kled the leading human data marketplace has officially partnered with The DATA Foundation to onboard over 1.5 billion user records on chain. We've spent the last 3 months working directly with some of the leading foundation models and labs. The single biggest point of discussion was trust. Labs have 0 room for error and consumer data is the single largest but also most sensitive data type on the planet. Labs need two things before confidently purchasing a dataset. 1. A clean audit record: end-to-end receipts, consent forms, and proof of payment. They need to fully trust that data uploaded on the marketplace can confidently be licensed without consumers introducing risk into training pipelines. 2. Full confidence that the data on our marketplace is original. Not pirated, not AI generated. They need to fully trust that data uploaded is real human unaltered content that can significantly enhance a training pipeline. We've been hugely against 99% of all blockchain offerings that have come our way, but things aligned way too well here and we found a unique opportunity to build something great. Kled will be moving its full audit rails onto DATA Network, backed by a16z crypto, Polychain, and other top VCs. The instant a user uploads data to our platform we create an anonymized receipt that is automatically sent to the TRACE (demo video, live links, and more in the post below). The content hash ID, signed consent forms, full payment record, and end-to-end timestamps. Any AI lab can now verify the legitimacy of any dataset in seconds, making us the first data marketplace in history to publicize its data audit records. Consumer identities are fully anonymized and hidden, no users will be exposed in the process. To add to this Kled will also be supporting USDC payouts on DATA Network. This will be alongside other stablecoin options rolling out with our existing fiat payouts. All of this will be fully auditable on DATA Network as well. Lastly Kled and The DATA Foundation will be pooling its efforts to create the world’s best fraud detection protocol. We will be allocating the majority of our time/resources towards creating this, labs need to trust our data and the creation of AGI will be a function of this trust. I'm also joining The DATA Foundation with a Part Time Advisor Role as the Chief Data Officer, where I’ll be advising the foundation team to make sure the Trace audit product reflects what AI labs actually need to license data with confidence. The DATA Foundation's audit / licensing rails and Kled's data marketplace are complimentary in nature, labs need both. Kled is the largest contributor to that audit layer so we have the most skin in the game to get this product right. Every effort described here will create a safer future for consumers and labs. We are here to set the gold standard for trust and nothing will stray us away from this goal. Onward.

Kled has just signed a $12 million non-exclusive data deal over the next 2 years making the marketplace officially profitable. We’re now heavily expanding our team to bring Kled to android, support every global currency / payment method, increase our daily uploads and registrations on Trace by 2x in 1 month, and roll out our next fraud detection model for better data quality. We want the best engineers in the world. All open careers can be found here: kled.ai

Story becoming Data Network isn't a pivot it's an expansion. IP is data, but the future of AI depends on many forms of verifiable data. The network, team, and ecosystem stay the same, while the vision grows far beyond a single category. $IP → $DATA @datafdn @Data_Ecosystem

Story Foundation rebrands to @datafdn Congratulations to @devrelius, CEO of the DATA Foundation After 4 years of building, Story Foundation focused on music, art, gaming and creator content but saw the biggest demand in AI training data @psdnai showed that AI companies need verified, high-quality data @datafdn will help AI companies get trusted data and ensure people are paid for their contributions @Data_Ecosystem •- Trace: audit & verification platform •- Poseidon: data processing & quality layer •- Numo, Oto, Miso: human data collection apps proud to be a dev ambassador working with our amazing DevRel lead @jacobmtucker Lfg!

@Data_Ecosystem @datafdn Story=DATA Network

@parmenides_xyz @datafdn @jacobmtucker Legend!

thrilled to have some of my code running under the hood here! Nothing but respect for the @datafdn engineers for shipping a fantastic product this quickly, and endless thanks to @jacobmtucker for welcoming me aboard this rocketship. tl;dr: we're building the union catalog for human data

Check it out now at trace.datafdn.org

Intro to Trace: @datafdn's flagship, public audit and search platform where every asset permanently registered on DATA Network can be accessed.

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BREAKING: Today, we are excited to announce that Story is now The DATA Foundation. Story becomes DATA Network and $IP becomes $DATA. Follow our journey @datafdn and learn more about it from @devrelius and @theSYlee. x.com/devrelius/stat…

@PhiDngNguy75878 @devrelius Right back at you!

@devrelius I Love DATA

New name, more focused mission, tackling the most important problem in AI today. We started Story to move the world's IP onchain. What became crystal clear is that the most valuable IP in the world of AI is actually data. Specifically the real, human, licensable data every AI lab needs and can't get cleanly. Soon enough, every company sitting on human behavior will become a data business, whether they intend to or not. The teams that can source that data at scale and prove where it came from with consent will build some of the most valuable companies of this era. Excited to have @devrelius lead as the Chief Executive Officer with @avipat_ as the Chief Data Officer role (advisory) at The DATA Foundation. I'm excited to continue supporting The DATA Foundation team and their mission through my efforts at @piplabsxyz and @psdnai. We won’t stop until all AI training data leaves a trace. We won’t stop until all AI training data leaves a trace.

Today, Story becomes The DATA Foundation. $IP is now $DATA. The Story Network is now DATA Network, tracking 1B+ data records with a singular mission: to become the trust layer for all AI training data. Welcome to The DATA Foundation.

1/ We built oto so people can have real conversations and earn, while creating the data the next generation of voice AI actually needs. Today we're partnering with @psdnai + @StoryProtocol. Your conversations, your consent, verifiable onchain. x.com/psdnai/status/…