Vana

Vana is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain designed to let individuals treat their personal data as a financial asset rather than something surrendered without compensation to large technology companies. It targets ordinary users who generate data through everyday digital activity and want to pool that data collectively for use in artificial intelligence model training while retaining ownership. The project's central claim is that by organizing contributors into Data Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, or Data DAOs, it can create a marketplace where data has explicit value and contributors share in that value.

Vana operates as an EVM-compatible chain, meaning smart contracts written for Ethereum-family networks can run on it, and it is also represented across the BNB Chain, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base ecosystems. Users contribute data to structures called Data Liquidity Pools, where a Proof-of-Contribution mechanism validates the quality and integrity of each submission before the data is tokenized. The VANA token is used to reward data contributors, validators, and the creators of Data Liquidity Pools, functioning as the native incentive and settlement currency within the network; the consensus algorithm powering block production is not recorded in the available data, and blocks are noted as having a zero-minute block time in the stored metrics, which likely reflects a data gap rather than a technical reality.

Vana collected 2,321.50 USD in fees over the trailing twelve months and 122.18 USD over the trailing thirty days, which annualizes to approximately 1,486.52 USD. Fees over the most recent twenty-four-hour period were 8.98 USD, and the trailing seven-day figure was 51.74 USD. Fee activity rose 995.12 USD over the last thirty days, though from a very low base. These fee levels are extremely small relative to the network's market capitalization of 35,827,810 USD, producing a market-cap-to-annualized-fees ratio of 23,931.69 and a fee yield of roughly 0.004179 percent annualized; the total value locked on the chain stands at 201,018.47 USD, with approximately 95,978.55 USD of that represented by stablecoin supply.