Data Services Platform is Now Open to Everyone, with Real Crypto Rewards
Jul 22, 2025
The first open, on-chain platform where developers crowdsource high-quality AI data services and contributors earn real rewards
The wait is over; Data Services Platform (DSP) is now live and open to the public!
The next generation of AI won't be built behind closed doors; it'll be built by people like you. With the public launch of DSP, anyone, anywhere in the world can now contribute to AI development and earn real rewards for their work, including $SAHARA tokens, stablecoins like USD1 or USDT, and other ecosystem partner tokens. From annotating images and tagging voice clips to co-creating full datasets, your time and skills now have tangible value in the growing AI economy.
This is the first time a platform has made it possible to contribute high-quality, on-chain data and get paid directly for it. No degrees, no gatekeeping, just real impact with real rewards.
More than $450,000 USD worth of $SAHARA and partner rewards are available from day one, with new tasks and rewards continuously being added.
DSP represents a fundamental shift in how AI development works. Instead of being limited to a select few with the means and know-how, AI development is now open to everyone. Whether you're a student, professional, or anyone with time and skills to contribute, you can now earn real rewards by helping train the next generation of AI systems.
DSP is the world's first on-chain platform for creating high-quality, verifiable AI datasets, powered entirely by decentralized global contributions. It sets a new standard for transparency, collaboration, and equity in how AI is trained.
How Data Services Platform Works
DSP transforms AI development by creating a decentralized platform where contributors complete data tasks that help train AI systems. Here's how it works:
Tasks are created by enterprises, partners, or the community based on real AI development needs.
Contributors choose tasks that match their skills and interests from the platform
Quality is ensured through automated quality screening, decentralized peer review, task-specific machine review, and in-house human QA mechanisms.
Rewards are distributed automatically in $SAHARA tokens for approved contributions. Eligible contributions for Dual-Reward tasks also receive additional partner rewards.
AI gets better as high-quality datasets are created and made available to developers worldwide.
The entire process is transparent, on-chain, and designed to fairly reward contributors for their valuable work. Learn more about how DSP works by checking out our docs.
Three Ways to Contribute and Earn
DSP’s public release introduces three distinct task types, each offering different reward structures and opportunities:
Enterprise Tasks: Earn $SAHARA
Complete high-quality data annotation tasks for leading enterprises and earn $SAHARA tokens directly. These tasks are backed by real-world AI development needs and provide token rewards for approved contributions.
Dual-Reward Tasks: Earn $SAHARA + Partner Rewards
Throughout our private testnet, contributors created critical datasets used in real-world AI development by leading enterprises. With the public release, we're expanding those efforts and introducing new task types, partner collaborations, and incentive models designed to take decentralized AI collaboration even further.
Dual-Reward Tasks are designed to make contributions more rewarding than ever, letting you earn twice for every eligible submission:
How Dual-Reward Tasks Work:
✅ Complete special tasks backed by ecosystem partners
✅ Earn $SAHARA tokens plus bonus rewards from partners, such as partner tokens, points, stacked rewards, and more!
✅ Get rewarded from two sides for every eligible task you complete
✅ High-quality submissions can unlock even greater rewards
These tasks give early-stage and pre-TGE AI projects a meaningful path to surface real use cases and engage with genuine contributors. By participating in task creation and validation, users help shape and validate AI systems in their formative stages. It’s a way to discover what’s being built in AI before the hype, through hands-on contribution.
This is a major step toward building an AI economy where contributions are recognized, valued, and openly rewarded. And it’s just the beginning!
Community Tasks: Earn Equitable Co-Ownership
DSP is also introducing Community Tasks—datasets created for the community, by the community. While these tasks don't offer immediate rewards, they provide something potentially more valuable: equitable co-ownership in the resulting datasets.
When you contribute to Community Tasks, you gain proportional ownership rights in the dataset based on your contributions. Once these community-created datasets are added to our marketplace, you'll receive equitable payments every time the dataset is used, purchased, or remixed by AI developers, researchers, or enterprises.
This creates a sustainable, long-term revenue model where your contributions continue generating value over time. Community Tasks represent the future of collaborative AI development, where contributors become stakeholders in the datasets they help create.
New Structure, New Reward Systems
We've taken everything we learned from our private testnet seasons and rebuilt the contributor experience from the ground up. Whether you're here to earn more, learn more, or do more for the future of AI, the new DSP is built to support you with real token rewards.
More Multi-Modal Tasks
During private testing, most tasks focused on text. That changes in the public release.
We're introducing multi-modal tasks that span audio, video, image, and hybrid data types. Expect to:
Label voice clips, images, or video
Evaluate AI-generated content
Work on structured and unstructured data across domains
Whether you prefer tagging memes or analyzing tone in audio clips, there's now a task type for you.
Flexible Contribution Model (No More Seasons)
One of the biggest changes in public release is the removal of fixed seasons. Instead, contributors can now:
Participate continuously, without a seasonal deadline
Earn $SAHARA tokens and grow their profiles year-round (no more Sahara Points!)
Work at their own pace based on availability, interests, and skill level
This new structure ensures your impact is recognized immediately with real token rewards and allows us to introduce more dynamic, flexible rewards moving forward, giving you more control over when and how you contribute.
Dynamic User Leveling and Task Unlocks
To ensure quality and match contributors with the right tasks, DSP public release introduces a dynamic leveling system that matches contributors with tasks appropriate to their skill and accuracy.
Here's how it works:
Earn XP for approved tasks and achievements
Level up to unlock new, better-rewarded opportunities
Some tasks are level-gated to ensure quality control
About Levels:
Lower-level users can only access easy to intermediate tasks with the lowest $SAHARA token rewards
As you prove your ability to annotate with accuracy, you'll level up and unlock access to advanced and expert tasks with higher $SAHARA token rewards
Some of the most complex tasks are token-gated and reserved for top contributors
During our private testnet, top-performing contributors earned a soulbound token marking their ascension to the Demigod tier, unlocking access to the most exclusive, high-reward tasks. Prove your skills and you could earn the same.
Early Adopter Advantage: If you participated in our private testnet seasons, your contributions haven't been forgotten. Early adopters retain their progress and reputation, including access to more advanced tasks from day one. Your experience puts you at an advantage as DSP expands, and you'll continue to benefit from priority access to premium Dual-Reward opportunities.
Whether you're starting fresh or returning as a proven contributor, your performance—not just participation—determines how far you go.
Access Controls
To maintain the integrity of the DSP ecosystem as it scales, we’re introducing access controls that help ensure contributors are real, committed, and aligned with the platform’s standards.
One key mechanism is the $SAHARA lock-up—a system where users may be asked to temporarily lock a small amount of $SAHARA in their account to access certain high-value or sensitive tasks. This helps discourage spam, prevent sybil attacks, and promote accountability among contributors.
Importantly, these tokens are not spent or consumed. They remain in your wallet and can be fully released after the associated tasks are completed or your eligibility period ends. Think of it as a signal of trust as a lightweight commitment that shows you’re participating in good faith.
Here’s how it works:
During the initial launch, all users can access tasks freely, no lock-up required. This phase is designed to maximize accessibility and give everyone a chance to build their reputation.
In later phases, select advanced or enterprise-level tasks may require a temporary $SAHARA lock-up as an added layer of protection and quality assurance.
Combined with anti-sybil measures like reputation scoring, submission reviews, and contribution audits, this system helps keep DSP secure and rewarding for genuine contributors.
Access controls are critical to preserving the integrity of the ecosystem and ensuring that rewards go to genuine contributors.
Smarter Task Discovery
Finding the right task that suits your skill-level and interests is now easier than ever.
Tasks are clearly tagged by method type—like classification, transcription, or segmentation—and can be filtered by category or your current level.
Each task card displays key details, including:
Required level
Annotation method
Language or domain
Estimated rewards and availability
Locked tasks appear at the bottom with guidance on how to unlock them, helping you focus on what you're eligible to complete right now.
DSP Launch Partners
Our first wave of Dual-Reward and Enterprise partners are live on DSP! Each partner brings unique task types and rewards to help you earn more while supporting high-impact AI development.
More partners will be announced regularly. This is just the beginning.
Camp Network IP Remixing: Create, Annotate, and Earn $SAHARA + Camp Rewards
Analyze visual content to help AI learn what makes images impactful. By annotating artworks generated through Camp Network’s tools, you’re teaching models to recognize aesthetic patterns, cultural markers, and emotional tone. This work strengthens AI’s ability to understand and remix visual IP in ways that reflect human taste. Earn $SAHARA and Camp rewards for approved annotations.
Solo AI Data Annotation: Label Audio, Earn $SAHARA + Solo AI Rewards
Help train audio AI systems by listening to and labeling the genre of music and sound clips. Your inputs will teach models to distinguish between complex sonic features—like rhythm, instrumentation, and vocal patterns—across genres. This is foundational work for audio-based AI, from music recommendation engines to automated editing tools. Earn $SAHARA and Solo AI rewards for every approved annotation.
IO.net Data Collection: Gather Public Footage, Earn $SAHARA + IO.net Rewards
Submit clean, diverse video clips sourced from public footage to help improve how AI systems interpret the visual world. These clips will teach models to identify context, motion, and environmental features across scenes, from city streets to natural landscapes. Each approved clip brings AI vision closer to real-world reliability. Earn $SAHARA and IO.net rewards for quality submissions.
MIA Model Validation: Chat with an AI Agent, Earn $SAHARA + $MIA
Test and improve MIA, the first economic AI agent, by chatting with her and providing feedback on her responses. These interactions help refine natural language understanding, tone calibration, and response quality—core building blocks of conversational AI. Your feedback makes MIA more useful, accurate, and adaptable. Earn $SAHARA and $MIA for each high-quality interaction.
xFractal Model Validation: Verify Crypto Price Predication Accuracy, Earn $SAHARA
Validate the accuracy of AI-generated crypto predictions by comparing them to real market performance. These tasks help fine-tune financial models, improving how agents interpret time-series data and forecast volatility. Your verification supports the development of more transparent, reliable AI in decentralized finance. Earn $SAHARA for each correct assessment.
What's Next: Full Self-Serve Data Services for AI Devs, Researchers, and Enterprises
As Data Services Platform continues to grow, the next phase of our roadmap is focused on enabling full self-serve functionality for AI developers, researchers, and enterprises.
Our upcoming Call for Data Services feature will allow teams to:
Post custom dataset requests directly on the platform
Automatically match with qualified contributors
Monitor submissions, contributor performance, and data quality in real time
Access high-quality, decentralized data at lower cost and with greater transparency than traditional vendors
This is the next step in unlocking a truly open AI data economy where resource providers and developers collaborate seamlessly through shared infrastructure. Until then, developers can contact us directly to scope out dataset needs and prepare for early access.
Built on Proven Success
This launch builds on incredible momentum from our private testnet seasons: 3.8 million whitelist signups demonstrated massive demand, while 200,000 active participants generated over 8 million high-quality datapoints that passed rigorous decentralized peer review and QA mechanisms.
Seasons 1 through 3 achieved between a 92-95% accuracy rate with 8 million approved datapoints, 2.5 million of which were from Season 2 alone. These results prove that decentralized peer review, incentive mechanisms, and quality assurance processes can ensure data integrity and reliability at scale.
The results speak for themselves—community-driven data operations can deliver enterprise-grade quality. Now, DSP is ready to scale this proven model to the world.
Join DSP Today and Start Earning Real Rewards
The next generation of AI will be built on open data, transparent incentives, and real community participation.
Data Services Platform is now open to everyone! For the first time, anyone, anywhere in the world can contribute to AI development and earn real $SAHARA token rewards for their valuable work.
Join today and help build a more equitable, user-centric AI ecosystem, while earning real rewards for your efforts.
