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Data pooling

Data Liquidity Pools (DLPs) are an application pattern built on the Vana protocol — not the protocol itself; in marketing we sometimes call them data collectives. The purpose of a DLP is to enable collective decisions over a dataset: who can access it, how it’s validated and refined, and how value is shared. The protocol gives you user-owned data, Personal Servers, and grants; DLPs add pooled data, validation, refinement, and token-gated access so that many users can contribute to a shared dataset and earn when builders use it.

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DLP vs DataDAO

  • DLP (Data Liquidity Pool) — A pool that holds and validates contributed data and controls who can access it. A DLP can specify any currency (or mix of currencies) for access fees and contributor rewards; it is not limited to VANA or VRC-20.
  • DataDAO — A specific kind of DLP that is run as a DAO (decentralized autonomous organization). Governance (e.g. validation rules, refinement, treasury, upgrades) is controlled by token holders or the community. DataDAOs in the Vana ecosystem often use VRC-20 tokens for ownership and burn-for-access; the VRC-20 data token standard describes that pattern.
So: same user-owned data the protocol supports, but organized into a collective pool with its own access rules and (optionally) token. Data that users have connected through Integrate Vana can be contributed into a DLP; the same data can serve individual grants or collective pool use cases.

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Why build a DLP or DataDAO

  • Aggregation for AI — Combine many users’ data into a single, queryable dataset with clear access rules.
  • Sybil-resistant valuation — Proof of Contribution ties rewards to real, validated contributions.
  • Liquid data assets — When a pool uses VRC-20 tokens, they are ERC-20 compatible and programmable (governance, rewards, burn-for-access).
Core building blocks: a Data Liquidity Pool contract, validation and refinement logic, and (for DataDAOs) a token for the pool and contributor UI and governance. Contracts and addresses: Contract addresses.

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Get started

If you’re motivated to run a DLP or DataDAO:
  1. Understand the token standard — Read VRC-20 data token standard (for pools that use VRC-20).
  2. Run the quickstart — DLP quickstart gets a demo DLP on testnet in minutes (CLI + optional manual steps).
  3. Go deeper — Proof of Contribution and validation/refinement are covered in the Data Applications section.

DLP quickstart

Deploy a demo DLP on the Vana Moksha testnet in minutes.