Pool your community's data, license it to AI builders together, and split revenue by contribution.
A group of 300 Yoruba speakers record phrases. A lab licenses the set; the co-op contract pays each member by their accepted clips.
The people who carry a language or a body of knowledge decide who learns from it, and share in every fee it earns.
Speakers of under-served languages, patients, drivers and creators produce exactly the data AI builders want, yet it is usually scraped or bought from a middleman, with no say for the people it came from and no share of the fee.
When a platform collects your community's language, recipes or recordings, the platform sells it and the people who made it get nothing. When you own Data Commons Co-op, the uploader, review queue, license page and payout contract run under your co-op's name and wallet, so every license sale pays members by their accepted contributions. Your culture earns for the people who carry it, and you hold the record of who gave what.
One paid license and a first member payout within 90 days.
Three grant applications sent.
Verified payout contract, first payout onchain, builder profile.
One submission with a new feature.
All contributions and payouts tracked in one place for a month.
50 active contributors.
One partnership signed.
Case study plus three conversations.
Two communities running co-ops you operate.
Yes. Members upload through a page, reviewers accept or reject in a queue, and the payout contract splits sales by accepted items. The build arrives deployed; your job is people and quality.
Some buy niche, consented, well labeled data, especially low resource languages and specialized domains. Many will not. Expect a slow first sale and plan for small licenses first. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Honestly, the model is live on Vana. Owning yours means your co-op name, your chain and your own license terms without depending on one network. If your community is happy on Vana, use Vana.
You need clear consent, a plain license explaining who can buy it and for what, and a way to remove contributions. Voice and personal data have extra rules in many countries. Get local advice before your first sale.
Set the rules before anyone uploads: pay per accepted item, how reviewers are chosen, the co-op's cut. Put them on the page. Clear rules early prevent most fights.
Put a claim to an impartial AI judge that reads the world and rules, on-chain.
Invite-gated: Ritual's testnet faucet needs a Discord invite. Get the invite, then contact us and we set you up. Not sold in the normal flow yet.
Teach an AI agent your craft, and every time it earns, you earn as the teacher of record.
An AI that guards your inbox and DMs and charges strangers a fee you keep to reach you.
Give your AI agent a wallet with house rules it literally cannot break.
Pay three independent AIs a few cents to check one answer, and get a signed receipt of agreement.
Your personal AI memory, owned by you, rentable to any assistant you choose.
AI labs pay you to rank their outputs, and your taste builds an onchain reputation.