This milestone highlights Navigate’s commitment not only to building technically advanced systems but also to cultivating a strategic brand and intellectual property ecosystem primed for long-term cultural impact and monetization.

The new Navigate website embodies the company’s vision of pairing elegant design with the power of decentralization. The result is a brand platform that appeals to developers, investors, and end-users alike—positioned for scalability across media, entertainment, and commerce.

“This award affirms our belief that exceptional design and user experience are integral to conveying the value of decentralized technologies,” said Ali Husain, Founder & CEO of Navigate. “As we continue to develop solutions that return control of data to individuals, our brand must resonate with clarity and purpose.”

Navigate’s website was developed with Resn, a world-renowned digital studio known for its work with global brands such as Airbnb, Adidas, and Spotify.

“We’re excited to help accelerate the adoption of breakthrough solutions like Navigate and contribute to a better future,” said Rik Campbell, CEO & Co-Founder of Resn.

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SpecFive, a leader in secure, decentralized, mesh-enabled communication devices, and Navigate, creators of the decentralized data marketplace NVG8.io, have announced a strategic partnership to develop the Navicom Node — a hardware solution that enables individuals to collect, manage, and monetize their personal data.

The Navicom Node provides a powerful pre-configured and containerized set of applications that allow users to use it as a “cloud” of their own, without needing to turn data over to Big Tech. Nodes integrate Navigate’s tokenized data-sharing protocol with SpecFive’s advanced communication hardware. These devices will support a broad range of data types, including environmental, location-based, and future Navigate supported data streams. Each device is designed to function in both connected and offline environments, offering flexibility for users in a wide variety of settings.

“Our mission at Navigate has always been to put control back into the hands of data owners,” said Milton Lopez, Chief Product Officer at Navigate. “Working with SpecFive allows us to bring this mission to life through a reliable hardware development partner that is already committed to decentralization.”

“At SpecFive, we’re focused on building infrastructure that supports user-owned, resilient communication,” said Daniel Susca, Vice President of Engineering at SpecFive. “This partnership with Navigate strengthens that focus and enables new ways for users to derive value from the data they generate.”

Most crucially, SpecFive will accept NVG8 tokens as consideration for its role in the development and deployment of the Navicom Node. This decision reflects SpecFive’s confidence in the NVG8 ecosystem and its potential to facilitate secure and efficient data transactions.

For more information about the Navicom Node and the SpecFive–Navigate partnership, please visit www.SpecFive.com and www.NVG8.io.

Navigators, we’re excited to announce that our new Navigate website is live! 

After months of hard work, we’ve created a space that puts users in the driver’s seat of their own data sovereignty and earning potential. The new Navigate website is a user-friendly experience, designed with you — the community — in mind, so that everyone can learn to earn rewards from their data both actively and passively in gamified quests. 

By ethically sourcing data to teach AI Large Language Models (LLMs)leveraging blockchain decentralization technologies , Navigate represents a true shift in data collection — a move toward a more sustainable, ethical, and efficient data-sourcing strategy that will power the next generation of applications and a new era of AI innovation. With Navigate, you join a decentralized intelligence platform that puts the power back in your hands and rewards you for the data you contribute. 

Here’s a quick overview of what’s new and what’s next for Navigate.

Data is at the very foundations of the current revolution in artificial intelligence (AI), powering large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and MIdjourney. 

Ethically acquiring good and significant quantities of data is challenging. Organizations often harvest data from users to create substantial value, offering little to no compensation in return.

Navigate is working to change the way internet users share and earn from their data.  We’re building a decentralized intelligence platform that rewards users for providing the data cutting edge applications require. Our platform fosters innovation, empowers creators, and ensures that earnings are shared among the community of contributors. Navigate is also shaping the future of AI by ethically and transparently sourcing high-quality data essential for AI advancements. 

Navigate revolutionizes the data economy, enabling users to earn not only for their data contributions but also each time their data is utilized by companies. By leveraging Web3 technologies, we provide users with control over their data and its usage, ensuring a decentralized and user-centric approach.

The future of AI depends on two crucial elements: compute power and data. But we are quickly depleting our supply of publicly available training data, and there isn't an equitable system in place to source new data reliably.

With the rise of LLMs and new AI products, the demand for high-quality training data has surged. Yet, sourcing this data remains a significant challenge. Data about you and the data you generate are invaluable to many companies, which often take this data without consent or compensation.

As data increasingly ends up in the hands of a few large corporations, the need for change becomes clear. Navigate is addressing this by building a decentralized intelligence platform that revolutionizes data collection and labeling. This platform allows users — the creators of valuable data‚ to earn rewards for their contributions.

Data is a powerful and valuable asset. It’s time to stop giving it away for free and start earning from it.

Navigate empowers users to earn from their data by offering rewards for valuable contributions. As the creators of data, users can now benefit directly from the data they generate, disrupting the traditional model where only companies profited. 

With Navigate, you can earn from your data both passively and actively. Passive earning happens when Navigate users passively contribute data streams through data connections (COMING SOON). Active earning occurs when users actively contribute high-value training data through quests on Data Quest. 

Join Navigate to turn your data into a rewarding asset.

Our new site is designed with you, our community, at its heart. Here’s what you’ll find:

We’ve made it easier for you to connect with fellow Navigators and participate in building new datasets. Our platform is designed to foster collaboration and community engagement.

We’ve turned data contribution into an engaging activity with data quests. Earn rewards while contributing valuable data, making the process both fun and beneficial.

Our comprehensive resources will guide you through the platform, our mission, and the importance of decentralized intelligence. Learn about Navigate, explore detailed documentation, and understand how decentralized data can drive innovation.

The new design is sleek, modern, and intuitive, making it easy for you to find what you need and get involved quickly.

We aim to create a decentralized data economy where individuals are empowered to control their data. Our vision is to foster a transparent and ethical data ecosystem that benefits everyone. By decentralizing data intelligence, we’re paving the way for a new era of AI that is innovative and trustworthy.

We’re building a data ecosystem where everyone benefits. Visit our new site to learn more about Navigate and how you can get involved. 

Your daily data contributions can now earn you rewards, making the process both impactful and rewarding.

This launch is just the beginning. We have many exciting updates and features planned for the coming months. 

Stay tuned for new data quests, enhanced user interactions, and more opportunities to contribute and earn.

Official Links

Website: https://nvg8.io/

X (Twitter): https://x.com/navigate_ai

Discord:https://discord.com/invite/nvg8

Navigate is partnering with Yield Guild Games (YGG) to bring our upcoming game to the YGG community at the end of this month. As a Navigate community partner, the YGG ecosystem will gain early access to our Data Quest app and receive special rewards specific to the YGG community.   

Data Quest is Navigate’s new application that is reshaping how AI training data is collected. The application is gamifying data collection and labeling tasks, rewarding users for contributing valuable data to the platform as they play the game.   

Starting June 20, the YGG community can sign up as an early user through the Data Quest waitlist, providing the opportunity to earn Navigate points and unlock in-game badges.   

YGG is the first guild protocol in Web3 with guild partners all over the world. Their mission is to create new opportunities for community members across the globe through Web3 games. By partnering together, Navigate and YGG are redefining how data is collected and labeled, ensuring that users earn from their contributions and have fun through gaming while doing so.   

Navigate’s mission is to build the largest decentralized big data platform that enables individuals to earn from their data. As the demand for high-quality AI training data across the world continues to increase, especially with the growth of LLMs, there is no better time than now to ensure that people who are helping to create and augment valuable datasets get a piece of the pie.   

Launching publicly on June 27, Data Quest, Navigate’s beta application, is a game where players can come together to contribute new data or label existing datasets and actually earn rewards for contributing data that will help shape new AI models.  

“YGG is an ideal partner for Navigate – it merges two communities together that care deeply about shaping the future of work through Web3 gaming. I’ve been a part of the YGG community since the early days when all eyes were on Axie, and it has been incredible to witness YGG’s growth these last several years firsthand. Gabby and his team’s vision around the future of work aligns perfectly with what we want to do at Navigate, which is rewarding people for the value they are creating either in the form of passive data contribution or actively investing time by labeling important datasets. This is just the beginning, and I’m very excited to build and grow Navigate with the YGG community.” - Ali Husain, Co-Founder and CEO of Navigate  

Follow us on X or join our Discord to stay up to date on Data Quest and how you can get involved. You can also visit nvg8.io to learn more about the Navigate project.   

About Yield Guild Games: 

Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a web3 guild protocol that enables players and gaming guilds to find their community, discover games and level up together. Its mission is to become the leading community-based user acquisition platform in web3 gaming. 

As a network of gaming guilds focused on web3 games, YGG is committed to providing opportunities for its members to achieve success in web3 gaming through questing initiatives such as Superquests and the Guild Advancement Program (GAP). These enable members to build their onchain identity through its achievement-based reputation system.  

From its roots in the Philippines to its global network of regional guilds and partnerships with over 100 blockchain games and infrastructure projects, YGG caters to an ever-expanding community of gamers and blockchain enthusiasts. 

Yes. Yes, we are. And the most exciting consumer facing AI technology, large language models (LLMs), are only possible because of big data. Very big data, in fact.  

When it comes to accelerating AI, data is — and always will be — the fundamental piece. 

The world has been prioritizing AI for a long time now. LLMs are simply the latest stage of that progress and are proving to be the key technology shaping the future of how AI will be applied to the applications people use every daynd with the emergence of LLMs, came quite the arms race for compute capacity. For example, just look at Microsoft, which is building Stargate, a $100 billion dollar data center that has a target launch date in 2028. Or Meta and Google’s increasingly prevalent focus on AI. Or Elon’s strategy with xAI. But at the same time, we must be cognizant of why that compute capacity is being sought after from these tech giants in the first place.  

The answer? To process more data and own every piece of the lucrative data pie, of course. 

Big tech companies are escalating this arms race by the day, siloing valuable data to ensure they get the biggest cut of the data pie, leaving little profit in return for anyone else. Elon, after his acquisition of Twitter, now X, locked down API access. Reddit upped the prices of their APIs. But these are just two recent examples of platforms building walls to prevent “their” data from being used by other companies. But funny enough, the data they treasure and fight for is not always generated from the company itself, but from users. X, Reddit, Meta, Google, Youtube, are just a few of the platforms that profit from new data being created every second of every day, data created by you and me. 

While those companies earn from the data and insights users give them just by utilizing the platform, the end user— or the one who actually created that valuable data — is ignored. We, the users, the contributors, need to be given at least the option of having more control over our data and to be able to reap some of the rewards that our data generates. That is not the case today. 

Web3 is positioned to completely turn this model upside down. Today, the best use case for blockchain is a very simple one: decentralized ownership. We’re not going to solve world hunger with it, but we are going to be able to create an alternative for people who want more ownership and control. That’s it. Simple as that—and it’s about time! 

That is what Navigate is all about.  

Our mission is to create a new kind of big data platform that rewards people for contributing data that matters. Through both active and passive data contributions, Navigate will power a data ecosystem that finally lets users get a piece of the pie and earn from the valuable data they generate every day.  

What’s Coming: Getting a Piece of the Pie With Navigate’s Data Quest  

Users will be able to contribute to Navigate in two main ways: active data contributions (such as data labeling tasks) and passive data sharing (such as contributing your specific consumer application data, like Amazon order history or Spotify listening history) all through Navigate’s application Data Quest. 

Now you might read this, and this go, “What!? Why do you want all my data? That should be private!”. Spoiler alert. It’s not private. 

The data you help create is very valuable data. Take Amazon order history for example. Amazon is the only other company in the world that is collecting this data, it sits behind their corporate firewall, and by the way they sell it all the time, without us even knowing. 

It isn’t really a question of whether our data is being sold, just if we are getting a piece of the pie or not. Currently, none of us are getting anything.  

Maybe this type of data isn’t exciting if you try to sell just yours or I try to sell just mine independently, but if we all get together as a community and sell our collective shopping history, now that becomes very appealing. 

With Navigate, the community not only receives rewards when they share or contribute data, but they also earn when the datasets they help augment and build get bought or licensed by real companies. You get paid whenever your data generates value. Crazy, right? 

This is a platform that will liberate your data from behind corporate firewalls and give you the piece of the pie you so rightfully earned! 

Own your data. Monetize your data. Make your data work for you. That’s the dream. 

And now, back to building.  

I remember my first few meetings at Microsoft where a bunch of acronyms and terms were being thrown around and I was completely dumbfounded. As I write this, I can’t remember a single one of those “words”. Not wanting to look stupid, I used to look them up after meetings. Soon, as I made friends at work, I’d ask them, and very soon after that, if a term popped up that I hadn’t heard before, I had the confidence to say “haven’t heard this before. What does this one mean?”. 

As new team members, interns or full-time employees (FTEs 😉) would come onboard, I saw this from the other side. Now someone else didn’t want to look dumb. I would give folks a quick rundown and had many of them ping me occasionally when they heard a new acronym or term. Learn the terms so you sound like you know what you’re talking about. The real corporate alpha. 

Let’s talk about one word in particular. Games. It is very prevalent globally, and more specifically in Web3 these days. Games have traditionally been hated, vilified, frowned upon, grudgingly accepted. That is changing. There is staying power in games. It is a core part of being human. We all play games and even invent them! I bet the vast majority of people reading this can think back to their childhood, or more recently for those who know how to have more fun😀 and recall games they made up. 

The problem with the word “games” is that it implies something fun. How can something fun be valuable? How can it be serious or important? After all, it’s just a game. 

I am guessing there is a lot of mental gymnastics that goes on in the minds of people who think like that. 

Having worked on gamification and serious games in my career, I’d say the primary difference between applications that apply the veneer of gamification to a process vs. games is that instead of embracing making the process into a game, they are stuck in this weird no-man’s land and usually don’t feel like games and are not very good. 

Another very popular term that has game in it is “game theory”, which has been and continues to be used for many serious things. Game theory has its foundations in Economics but has been used across many disciplines.  

In essence, game theory is used to model and analyze how individuals make strategic decisions in situations where the outcome depends not only on their own actions but also on the actions of others. 

We are at a stage in the evolution of technology where consumers, also one of the largest contributors of data, need to adapt. In this post-LLM world, we have all seen the importance and impact of our data in creating incredible things. If we choose inaction, the status quo continues, and Big Tech will continue to benefit from harvesting our data freely. However, if we decide to take back control and build a community owned big data platform, we not only benefit from it, but also have more of a say in what products our data is used to build and what subset of our data is used to build those products! 

What’s the reason for writing all this, you might ask. If you have read “Let’s Talk About Data”, you know what it is we are trying to build, a decentralized intelligence platform owned by its contributor community. Everything I’ve written above is the how we will build it part. As a game. 

What type of game will this be? It will be one where Navigators all over the world will discover a world filled with creatures made of data. Collecting and curating data is not only a means to earn, but also discover, learn, and immerse yourself into areas that interest you. A social experience where we build something better. A more equitable way to share data with companies that need it.

- Ali 

thechaingamer.eth 

It is used by car insurance companies to analyze driving patterns. By software companies to understand which features in their applications are being used more and which are being used less. By gaming companies to analyze player behavior and optimize in-app purchases. By Netflix to recommend movies to you. By Spotify to recommend songs. And the list goes on. 

After about 3.5 years at Microsoft, I moved back to Austin, TX, where I’ve spent the last nine years at SparkCognition, an industrial artificial intelligence (AI) company, and SkyGrid, a joint venture between SparkCognition and Boeing.  

Most of my time at SparkCognition was spent building AR/VR interfaces integrated Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications— a subset of AI apps focused on human-machine interaction via natural language (think ChatGPT like Large Language Models (LLM), before ChatGPT existed 😊). At SkyGrid, we built the first AI + blockchain software platform for drone integration into the airspace. 

After spending a long time building and seeing AI solutions getting built around me, one truth reigns supreme. Data does in fact run the world! 

Data sanitization was, and remains, a large part of creating good AI models. There's a common saying in the field of computer science, "garbage in, garbage out" and that principle very much applies to building and fine-tuning AI models. 

So, what's the purpose in telling you all this?  Well, it sets the stage for us to dive into what Navigate is and why building a platform like this is crucial for the next wave of AI. 

We have entered the age of Data Wars. X (formerly Twitter) locked down access to their site and increased the pricing of their APIs. Reddit increased the price of their APIs, impacting a lot of developers who used these APIs to build applications. Why? After OpenAI released ChatGPT which exists in large part due to scraped data from the internet, both of these companies realized the importance of having control over data.  

X and Reddit are two of the most active platforms in the world where you have new data being generated by a massive user community every minute of every day, and it was being scraped by companies to create their own products! Ironically, OpenAI's terms and conditions don't allow you to use ChatGPT to train LLMs that can compete with it, even though OpenAI used data created by people and companies all over the world in order to create ChatGPT. 

Before this, it was Apple with the release of their “App Tracking Transparency” feature which ignited the war between them and Facebook (which Facebook ultimately lost and it cost them billions of dollars). Now we have Google doing the same with third-party cookies. Come Q3, Chrome will phase out third-party cookies, to protect user privacy. It just so happens that Google will also release “privacy preserving solutions”, which, you guessed it, will be available via APIs to developers. 

The size of the “data collection” pie is increasing, and everyone wants a larger chunk of it. Sharing is not the top priority here.  

While companies are battling each other to maximize their revenue and get a larger part of the market, the users who are creating all this data are getting, you guessed it, nothing. 

This is the problem we need to solve. The exploitation of users is getting worse. You create content, building a following on centralized controlled and closed platforms, and you have no recourse if these companies decide to suspend your account, remove features, change their terms and conditions. Chris Dixon, made a fine point in his book, Read Write Own, where he talks about the rising popularity of platforms like Substack which offer creators the ability to export email addresses of subscribers, thereby allowing creators (at least for now) to move away from Substack if they wish to do so. 

This is where Navigate comes in.  

At Navigate, we’re building a decentralized intelligence platform— one that rewards a community of contributors for creating and augmenting datasets that will be used for training and tuning AI models.  

All of us already contribute data to so many Big Tech companies every day, helping make their products better, but not getting any earnings for it. With Navigate, we believe in distributing rewards amongst the community that is creating new and valuable datasets for AI.  

So here we are. Building a platform to decentralize AI, reward contributors, and give people ownership of what they help build. The datasets created and augmented can be used by a multitude of companies building and tuning AI models, companies that need consumer insights for advertising purposes, etc. The advantage for contributors is that not only do their get rewarded for contributing, but also every time the data they created or augmented is used by a customer. The community wins by selling data to companies vs. giving it away for free and having companies sell it to each other. 

One last thing I'll say is gamification will be a large part of the Navigate ecosystem. We want to create a social experience where you "Play to Build" and earn as a result of that. I don’t like the term gamification very much, so I’ll try and say this a little differently. We want to build games that help us create the largest community owned and curated datasets. We want to build games that help us decentralize AI. 

I hope reading this brief introduction will energize and excite you about what we will all build together. See you soon, Navigators! 

- Ali 

thechaingamer.eth 

Navigate, the world’s decentralized intelligence platform, today announced Ali Husain as the Chief Executive Officer. Ali is one of the founders of Navigate, formerly acting as an Advisor to the project, and has now assumed the role of CEO to drive the company into its next stage of growth.

“Since its inception, Navigate’s mission has been to create the first and largest Web3 native decentralized intelligence platform. Data runs the world. People should be compensated for sharing this invaluable data.” said Ali Husain.

“Navigate incentivizes users by ownership and making data contribution fun, through gamification. I’m incredibly excited about the future of Navigate. DeAI and DePIN are going to be key areas of growth in Web3. I see NVG8 as the token for decentralized intelligence and cannot wait to build and grow alongside our community.”

Ali is an accomplished computer scientist with over a decade of experience in the technology industry, specializing in AI, drone tech, game design and Web3 products, with multiple patents under his name.

Ali began his career at Microsoft where he led the development of the Dynamics AX mobile application suite. He joined SparkCognition, an award-winning industrial AI company, during its early days and made significant contributions to the company's growth, building the first version of their Natural Language Processing platform, and many other cutting-edge applications for the enterprise market.

Prior to joining Navigate, Ali has served as the Chief Software Architect and later, Chief Product Officer at SkyGrid, a Boeing-SparkCognition joint venture, named as one of the Top 50 Blockchain companies in 2021 by Forbes.

Navigate closed a $7.625 million seed round in 2022. The round was led by Distributed Global, with further participation from Alan Howard, Kraken Ventures, Jez Mohideen, Outlier Ventures, among others.

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About Navigate

Data remains the most valuable commodity of our time and it is essential for building intelligent applications. Large language models (LLMS), content moderation algorithms, programmatic advertising, and advanced search capabilities all rely on high-quality data to function. But good data is hard to come by. And now, more than ever, organizations are harvesting this data from users to generate substantial value, offering minimal to no compensation in return.

Navigate is disrupting this trend by building a decentralized intelligence platform that rewards users for sourcing the data that intelligent applications require. We are creating a new kind of network where innovation is encouraged, creators are empowered, and earnings are distributed amongst its community of contributors.

Learn more about Navigate and what we are building at nvg8.io.