Vana is a Layer 1 blockchain designed for private data, where users own, manage, and profit from AI models trained on their data. It provides liquidity for data by solving the issue of double-spending, ensuring that data can be treated as a flexible financial asset through two mechanisms: secure proof of contribution to verify the value of private data, and non-custodial data, ensuring data is used only for approved activities.

1. Data Liquidity Layer: This layer facilitates the contribution, validation, and recording of data into data liquidity pools (DLP). Contributors send their data to DLPs for validation and governance rights, receiving rewards based on pre-defined parameters. It ensures on-chain data transactions, connecting contributors, supervisors, and validators.

2. Data Portability Layer: This layer, also called the Application Layer, is an open data exchange for contributors and developers. It provides infrastructure for training user-owned AI models and developing decentralized AI applications (dApps). It fosters a collaborative ecosystem where data contributors and developers can generate economic value from data.

3. Connectome: A decentralized ledger that tracks real-time data transactions across Vana’s ecosystem. Using a proof-of-stake consensus, Connectome ensures valid DLP token transfers, allowing user-owned applications to access data across multiple DLPs. It also offers EVM compatibility.

• Data Storage: Users can securely store non-custodial data, with voting rights tied to their contributions. Data is encrypted and shared only with trusted verifiers before being added to a collective server.

• User-Managed AI Models: Users train part of AI models on their own devices and grant access to a DAO, which merges all contributions. The DAO rewards contributors with tokens, which developers can interact with via API by burning tokens.

Vana democratizes AI development by empowering data contributors, creating a new economic model where contributors are active stakeholders in the AI value chain. Through its layered infrastructure, Vana transforms data into a secure, tradeable, and valuable asset.

Vana is a Layer 1 blockchain designed for private data, where users own, manage, and profit from AI models trained on their data. It provides liquidity for data by solving the issue of double-spending, ensuring that data can be treated as a flexible financial asset through two mechanisms: secure proof of contribution to verify the value of private data, and non-custodial data, ensuring data is used only for approved activities.

1. Data Liquidity Layer: This layer facilitates the contribution, validation, and recording of data into data liquidity pools (DLP). Contributors send their data to DLPs for validation and governance rights, receiving rewards based on pre-defined parameters. It ensures on-chain data transactions, connecting contributors, supervisors, and validators.

2. Data Portability Layer: This layer, also called the Application Layer, is an open data exchange for contributors and developers. It provides infrastructure for training user-owned AI models and developing decentralized AI applications (dApps). It fosters a collaborative ecosystem where data contributors and developers can generate economic value from data.

3. Connectome: A decentralized ledger that tracks real-time data transactions across Vana’s ecosystem. Using a proof-of-stake consensus, Connectome ensures valid DLP token transfers, allowing user-owned applications to access data across multiple DLPs. It also offers EVM compatibility.

• Data Storage: Users can securely store non-custodial data, with voting rights tied to their contributions. Data is encrypted and shared only with trusted verifiers before being added to a collective server.

• User-Managed AI Models: Users train part of AI models on their own devices and grant access to a DAO, which merges all contributions. The DAO rewards contributors with tokens, which developers can interact with via API by burning tokens.

Vana democratizes AI development by empowering data contributors, creating a new economic model where contributors are active stakeholders in the AI value chain. Through its layered infrastructure, Vana transforms data into a secure, tradeable, and valuable asset.