Sahara AI officially launches the public test network SIWA, marking the beginning of a new era driven by AI on-chain.

Author: Sahara AI

AI is driving into the depths of civilization, while the ownership of intelligent assets remains an unresolved mystery.

Behind the rapid development of AI globally, a long-neglected issue is gradually becoming a focal point of consensus — the construction of artificial intelligence relies on large-scale collaboration among humans, yet its value attribution structure remains severely imbalanced. Data, labels, feedback, and behavior, these original assets that support the growth of models, are still difficult to track, confirm ownership, and incentivize.

In the past, AI was regarded as a technological achievement; today, it is more like a refinement of distributed productivity. Who is involved? Who should own it? Who should benefit? The answers to these questions will directly determine the shape of the future AI economy.

The emergence of Sahara AI proposes a reconstruction plan of AI X WEB 3 in this context: to participate in building, contribute value, and gain returns from artificial intelligence, facing the world's first full-stack, AI-native blockchain platform that is open and accessible to everyone.

Unlike the Web3 packaging around existing AI tools, Sahara AI has aimed to establish a brand new smart asset order since its inception — where key assets such as data, models, and agents can be registered, authorized, verified, and profit-shared, forming the "on-chain property layer" and "value distribution layer" of the AI era.

Sahara launches SIWA testnet: the first publicly available on-chain data certification system

On May 19, 2025, Los Angeles time— Sahara AI officially launched its public testing network SIWA, opening up channels for AI creation, collaboration, and monetization for all-chain developers. SIWA is the first public entry point of the Sahara blockchain, serving as underlying infrastructure. Its core function is to provide verifiable rights confirmation, permission management, and on-chain monetization capabilities for AI assets such as datasets and models, establishing a credible and traceable standard for AI collaboration.

During the private testing phase, Sahara AI has achieved significant growth: the total number of accounts has exceeded 3.2 million, with daily active accounts surpassing 1.4 million, and more than 200,000 users have participated in data labeling tasks.

The first phase of the SIWA public test focuses on "decentralized data rights confirmation," allowing users to register autonomous data sets on the blockchain and mint data ownership certificates, endowing them with traceable, tradable, and revenue-sharing asset attributes, thereby changing the traditional scenario where data relied upon by AI is implicitly exploited and lacks pricing rights.

"AI is evolving driven by the data of billions of users, but the vast majority of them have neither been authorized nor compensated."

Sahara AI co-founder & CEO Sean Ren stated:

"Sahara is not just another blockchain project; it is a systematic reflection and a call for collective action. Our data service platform has already achieved real revenue, and we are directly returning this portion of value to testnet users. SIWA will support any developer and chain willing to empower AI contributors to join our ecosystem."

The protocol roadmap of Sahara AI includes three additional stages before the mainnet: permission to convert attribution into revenue, revenue distribution, and royalty vault; a permissionless testnet using open-source protocols; and pipeline registration, provenance tracking, and proof of contribution for automatic revenue sharing.

This SIWA testnet synchronously introduces 40+ new ecosystem partners, covering fields such as AI, Web3, cloud computing, and academic institutions, including AWS, Google Cloud, UC Berkeley, Together AI, and QuickNode. Previously, Sahara has established partnerships with Microsoft, Amazon, Snap, MIT, USC, UCLA, MyShell, and others.

"Sahara AI is ushering in a more open, fair, and sustainable era of AI collaboration."

Together AI co-founder and CEO Vipul Ved Prakash said:

"We believe that scalable computing resources will become the new infrastructure for Web3 AI. Together AI will fully support the Sahara developer platform, helping more users conveniently call and deploy intelligent models."

With the release of SIWA, Sahara AI will also gradually launch its flagship application to the public, providing tools, infrastructure, and economic systems related to the industry chain for Web2 and Web3 builders and contributors: AI developer platform, AI Marketplace, and data service platform (DSP).

The data service platform will launch its public beta on May 27. This is a pioneering service that utilizes distributed contributors for large-scale data collection and annotation. The platform provides decentralized auditing, incentive distribution, and quality inspection mechanisms. In the first season, the audited data reached 289,000 entries with an accuracy rate of 92%, and in the second season, it exceeded 2.55 million entries, with the accuracy rate improving to 95%.

Sahara AI addresses the long-standing lack of AI infrastructure in the blockchain ecosystem, providing a full-stack AI development and collaboration platform for global developers. It also realizes the confirmation of AI assets, trading, and shared profits through Web3 protocol mechanisms. SIWA marks the fundamental reconstruction of AI production relations and is the starting point of the De-AI era.

📎 About Sahara AI

Sahara AI is the world's first AI-native full-stack Web3 platform, dedicated to accelerating an AI-driven future—participating in construction, contributing value, and reaping rewards from artificial intelligence, open and accessible to all. The platform is powered by Sahara Blockchain and has received support from globally leading institutions such as Microsoft, Amazon, MIT, and Motherson Group.

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