There are not many #AI projects we can focus on and track long-term, #Sahara is one of them. It's a project we really like; it's doing something great in the #AI field: 'AI native blockchain operating system'. #AI + #Web3 is basically a narrative everyone is optimistic about, but the vast majority of 'AI projects' are just PPTs, lacking real products, closed-loop structures, and genuine demand.

#Sahara is currently one of the few real 'bottom-up rebuilt' AI×Web3 infrastructure projects in our #AI research, not only with a strong narrative but also with a product that already has customers, income, data, and on-chain activity.

🚀 What exactly is #Sahara?

#Sahara is not about being an 'AI chatting tool', but about helping everyone to develop, operate, and trade #AI applications on a blockchain platform.

Simply put, it is:

• Developer's toolbox (developing + deploying AI).

• User data monetization platform (labeling data → earnings).

• A trading market for AI models (trading AI assets like #OpenSea).

It is building a complete closed-loop system for 'on-chain AI assets', where everything from data, models, calls, validation to incentive distribution can be done on-chain, making it a full-stack platform, which is unique in the current #AI market.

🧠 The three main product matrices of #Sahara, each one is a bomb (already launched or in testing).

1️⃣ Data Service Platform (DSP).

• Users participate in data labeling, writing Prompts → earning on-chain rewards.

• The project Myshell on BNB Chain is already using it for data labeling.

• Up to millions of users are queueing to apply for the whitelist.

2️⃣ #AI Development Platform.

• Providing API, SDK, no-code tools → even if you're not a programmer, you can launch AI products.

• Creating a complete process for developers from model building → deployment → distribution.

3️⃣ #AI Asset Trading Market (coming soon).

• Models, datasets, Agents can all be registered on-chain → market trading → authorized calls to earn profits.

• Turning AI components into tradable on-chain assets, creating a decentralized 'AI OpenSea'.

📊 #Sahara's current data is impressive (May SIWA test network launched):

• Daily active users: 1.4 million+.

• Total on-chain accounts: 3.2 million+.

• Data service platform users: 200,000+.

• Actual corporate collaborations: 40+ (Microsoft, Amazon, CharacterAI, etc.).

• Revenue scale: tens of millions of dollars.

• AI trainer community: 200,000+.

In short, #Sahara is not an 'AI project that just writes white papers to brag', but a genuinely operational project with users, capable of self-sustaining growth.

💼 The team is strong, with a powerful background in investment.

• Founder Sean Ren: Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California, an expert in the AI field, leading a team in real model training.

• Co-founder Tyler Zhou: Former Investment Director at Binance Labs, veteran #Web3 investor.

• Additionally, #Sahara has raised a total of $49 million, with investors including top institutions like Polychain, Binance, Sequoia Capital, Pantera Capital, etc.

So, backed by strong Web2 AI capabilities + Web3 investment experience + top-tier capital, forming a powerful triangular resource closed loop, its strength is formidable.

In summary, as investors, this #Sahara and @buidlpad's ICO event is a must-participate for us. As for KYC issues, we can find a way to resolve them. #Sahara, as the first platform for 'on-chain AI assets', is currently the only platform in the entire web of AI projects that has connected the entire process of 'data → model → execution → revenue', possessing a complete economic closed-loop and Token value capture capability. Additionally, it has a strong narrative, solid logic, closed-loop structure, achieving a dual-driven model of #Web2 and #Web3, not just relying on narrative but also having real income, real usage, and landed users. If you believe that 'AI is the computing platform of the new era', then whoever can build a verifiable, collaborative infrastructure platform for AI assetization will have the chance to become the next giant. #Sahara is moving in that direction, and we are full of expectations for it, making it worthy of our focus.