Another Cookie SNAPS project: Sapien, with a reward pool accounting for 0.5% of the total token supply.

Sapien @PlaySapien is futuristic, turning AI training data into a decentralized working platform where everyone can participate and earn USDC.

1️⃣ Project Overview

- Established: October 2024

- Core Team:

Rowan Stone (Co-founder of Base)

Trevor Koverko (Founder of Polymath, Author of ERC1400)

- Financing: $10.5 million seed round, led by Variant, with participation from top-tier capital including Animoca, Primitive, Yield Guild Games, etc.

- Core Positioning: A decentralized platform providing high-quality data for AI training, connecting enterprises with over 1.2 million global data annotators.

- Used by Amazon Zoox, Baidu, Toyota, and the United Nations!

2️⃣ Project Features

Traditional data factories rely on intensive labor and centralized control, resulting in high costs, low efficiency, and variable quality. Sapien disrupts and reconstructs this model:

- Attracting users worldwide to annotate data using on-chain incentives + gamification methods.

- Real-time payment in USDC/points as rewards.

- Gaining institutional trust through SOC 2 Type II security certification + 99% accuracy.

- Users spread across 100+ countries, creating a truly global labor network.

Can be understood as: a blockchain version of Meituan's crowdsourcing combined with a Turing test studio, but focused on AI.

3️⃣ Business Model

- In addition to enterprises paying for data service subscriptions, global users complete data annotation tasks to earn USDC, enabling businesses to acquire quality data while users can earn income.

4️⃣ Project Expansion

- Besides being an AI data platform, Sapien also plans to build a digital tribe based on NFT passport recognition and DAO governance, providing citizenship rights and expression platforms for digital humanity.

5️⃣ Summary

- During the explosive growth of AI, the biggest bottleneck is data annotation; those who can efficiently organize global labor will win.

- Tokenized collaboration is the productivity release mechanism of the AI era; relying solely on companies and employees to annotate data is far from sufficient. Human-machine collaboration platforms like Sapien, which write work and rewards into contracts, represent a new paradigm.

- Crowdsourcing AI training and democratizing data rights—this new social experiment of Web3 is worth paying attention to.

If you want to get ahead as a data miner, AI infrastructure, or the next Render-like project, keep a close eye on this direction.

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