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User data has become one of the most important resources in the digital economy, yet the people who generate it rarely benefit from its use. Vana is an open protocol for programmable data ownership that enables collective creation—including AI training and data markets—while maintaining individual data sovereignty. What Vana is. By combining personal compute environments (Personal Servers), secure enclaves, and tokenized data rights, Vana lets you keep cryptographic control of your data while pooling it for shared use. You collect and store data in your control; you grant applications access with verifiable, revocable consent. Data Liquidity Pools (DLPs) turn personal data into a productive, tokenized asset so value can flow back to contributors. Why it matters now. Data portability is a legal right (GDPR, DMA, CCPA) but not yet a technical reality. Vana makes it real: one place for your data, one consent model, any app. The same primitives support both individual permissioned access and collective data coordination for AI and beyond. How it works (in one line). Users collect data → store it in Personal Servers → grant apps access to specific scopes. You maintain cryptographic control while enabling both individual permissioned access and collective pooling through Data Liquidity Pools.

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Understand the protocol

The DP RPC and its onchain primitives — identity, permissions, fees, schemas, files — and how data flows through the protocol.

Start building

Follow the Build a Vana App guide to request, approve, read, and pay — using the Vana SDK.