Build on Vana
A new way to work with private, user-owned data
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
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