by Wynd Network
Quick Fact
Grass.io allows users to earn rewards by sharing their idle internet bandwidth, which is utilized for web scraping to collect public data for AI model training. The platform operates through a browser extension and desktop application, ensuring user privacy by not accessing personal data. In December 2023, Grass.io raised $3.5 million in a seed funding round led by Polychain Capital and Tribe Capital, highlighting investor confidence in its decentralized approach to data collection.
Grass.io is a decentralized network that empowers everyday users to monetize their unused internet bandwidth in exchange for rewards—fueling a global data engine designed to train artificial intelligence systems. Created by Wynd Network, Grass is reimagining data collection by making it open, ethical, and user-owned.
Rather than allowing large tech platforms to extract and profit from web data in opaque ways, Grass enables a transparent and equitable model where individuals contribute to public data harvesting and are fairly rewarded.
Grass operates through a simple browser extension or desktop app that runs in the background. While active, it leverages your idle internet bandwidth to collect publicly available web data, which is then organized into high-quality datasets. These datasets are valuable to companies and researchers training AI models, especially large language models (LLMs) and web-indexing engines.
Critically, Grass does not access personal data or private browsing history—its design is privacy-first, collecting only public web information with user consent.
Participants earn Grass Points, which represent your contributions to the network. These points can be converted into $GRASS tokens, the native asset of the Grass ecosystem. As the network grows, $GRASS will power payments, access to compute, and decentralized governance—putting decision-making into the hands of its community.
With funding from top investors like Polychain Capital and Tribe Capital, and a vision to support both AI innovation and digital equity, Grass is quickly gaining traction as one of the most exciting projects in the decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN) space.
Grass is built as a Layer 2 on Solana, one of the fastest and most cost-efficient blockchains in the world. Solana’s scalability allows Grass to distribute micro-rewards in real time and manage large-scale data operations with ease, supporting millions of users and thousands of data collection endpoints.
Earn Passive Income – Monetize idle internet bandwidth
Support Ethical AI – Help build datasets without centralized control
Prioritize Privacy – No personal data collection
Join the DePIN Movement – Contribute to the next generation of infrastructure
Own the Network – Participate in governance through $GRASS tokens
Grass.io is more than a browser extension—it’s a rethinking of the digital economy. It turns passive internet users into active participants in the AI revolution, ensuring they get rewarded for their contributions to the data that drives it.