Binance has officially launched Sahara Ai ( $SAHARA ) as the 25th project in its BNB HODLer Airdrops. Users who subscribed their BNB to Simple Earn (Flexible and/or Locked) and/or On-Chain Yields products got the Airdrop for free.
As Sahara Ai is now live on Binance, Lets explore the project and see what its all about. We will also discuss how you can participate in future Hodler Airdrops.
What is Sahara Ai?
Sahara AI is the first full-stack, AI-native blockchain platform where anyone can create, contribute to, and monetize AI development, making the future of AI more accessible, equitable, and open to all.
Sahara AI leverages both blockchain technology and privacy protection methods to develop a robust provenance infrastructure for AI assets. This infrastructure enables the attribution of user contributions, protects data privacy, and ensures equitable compensation, all while emphasizing the importance of user control over their AI assets.
This diagram demonstrates the key stages in the AI asset lifecycle within the Sahara AI ecosystem. It highlights how developers and knowledge providers collaborate to create AI assets, which are then listed on the AI Marketplace for users to monetize, with all transactions recorded on-chain.
Sahara Token Utility
AI Asset Access and Licensing
SAHARA serves as the primary medium of exchange within the ecosystem, enabling users to access or license datasets essential for training AI models, acquire rights to use existing models, and secure computational resources necessary for model development, deployment, and inference. This creates a fluid marketplace where data providers, model developers, and users can efficiently exchange value.
Per-Inference Payments
A granular, usage-based pricing model allows users to pay with SAHARA for each agent inference they make, enabling precise cost control and new business models. This system ensures AI services remain accessible while fairly compensating agent creators, as well as upstream contributors of those agents, through automatic fee processing and distribution.
Network Operations
As the native token of the Sahara blockchain, SAHARA powers all network operations through gas fees. These fees serve multiple critical functions: preventing network spam and denial-of-service attacks, compensating validators for transaction processing, and maintaining overall network security with a predictable and economically viable fee structure.
Validator Staking and Network Security
The proof-of-stake system requires validators and delegators to stake SAHARA tokens as collateral, creating strong economic alignment between network security and token holder interests. Validators earn SAHARA rewards for processing transactions and maintaining consensus, while careful slashing conditions ensure high operational standards.
Ecosystem Incentivization
SAHARA plays a crucial role in bootstrapping the network's utility-driven AI economy. SAHARA is allocated to reward high-quality contributions to the ecosystem, including valuable datasets, innovative models, and essential infrastructure development. This utility-driven incentive structure attracts talented developers and researchers while rewarding genuine value creation over speculative activities.
Governance and Decentralization:
SAHARA holders have a voice in the platform's future through our on-chain governance system. Token holders can propose and vote on protocol decisions, ensuring that Sahara AI's evolution truly reflects the community's vision and needs.
Existing Products
Infrastructure Layer
Sahara AI is powered by a dual-layer infrastructure stack that integrates both on-chain and off-chain systems to support the full lifecycle of AI development and execution.
Sahara Blockchain: Sahara Blockchain is a purpose built, EVM compatible blockchain that supports onchain registration, ownership, and monetization of AI assets like datasets, models, and agents. It uses AI focused smart contracts for attribution, licensing, revenue sharing, and execution attestations to enable trusted, decentralized AI development.
AI Execution Protocols: Sahara’s offchain infrastructure powers the creation, deployment, and automated execution of AI agents. It offers seamless access to models, tools, and data while maintaining asset control. Trusted Execution Environments generate verifiable proofs for each run, anchored onchain for transparency and trust.
Application layer
Built on top of the Sahara Blockchain, the application layer delivers powerful tools and applications that enable users and developers to contribute to, build, and exchange AI assets.
Sahara AI Developer Platform
A full-stack development environment for building and deploying AI agents, models, and pipelines. Developers can use modular tools like the Data Hub, Model Hub, Compute Hub, and Vaults to manage the complete AI lifecycle. Assets can be published, tracked, and monetized directly on the Sahara Blockchain.
Sahara AI Marketplace: A decentralized marketplace for buying, selling, and licensing AI assets such as models, agents, and datasets. All assets include on-chain attribution, licensing, and usage tracking. The AI Marketplace enables creators to earn, while helping others accelerate their AI development.
Sahara Tokenomics
Token Name: Sahara AI (SAHARA)
Genesis Total Token Supply: 10,000,000,000 SAHARA
Max Token Supply: 10,000,000,000 SAHARA
Circulating Supply upon Listing on Binance: 2,040,000,000 SAHARA (20.40% of total token supply)
Additional 150,000,000 SAHARA will be allocated into future HODLer Airdrops. Details will be shown in a separate announcement.
Token Unlock
Binance Hodler Airdrop
Newt tokens were also shared with the Users who subscribed their BNB to Simple Earn (Flexible and/or Locked) and/or On-Chain Yields products from 2025-06-18 00:00 (UTC) to 2025-06-21 23:59 (UTC) got the airdrops distribution.
HODLer Airdrops Token Rewards: 125,000,000 SAHARA (1.25% of total token supply)
If you haven’t done so already, it’s too late to join - however, you can join BNB staking now to qualify for future airdrops.
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This is what Sahara token is all about, most importantly The usecase and the existing Products.
