Build on Vana

Popular guides

Deploy a dataDAO in 30 minutes - Launch a template DataDAO
Query private data - Access user-owned datasets
Core concepts - Understand the fundamentals
Discord - Get help from the community

AI/ML developers

New to decentralized systems? Vana lets you train models on datasets that users actually own, moving beyond scraped web data to data that's usually locked in walled gardens. Train next level AI models on user-owned data that isn't available anywhere else.

Data access
Get inspired: COLLECTIVE-1 trained on Vana data

Blockchain developers

Already building onchain? Vana is an EVM L1 with native data ownership and privacy-preserving compute for programmable operations on private data. Build DataDAOs and financial applications with data as the underlying asset.

DataDAOs Quickstart guide
Get inspired: check out live dataDAOs

General builders

Want to start a new kind of data business? A dataDAO is a new kind of entity where a group of users collectively pools their data and makes it available for different applications. You don't need deep blockchain knowledge, just an idea for how to organize and monetize data, from health and wellness data or robotics data.

Start a dataDAO
Get inspired: ideas for dataDAOs