Sahara

Sahara is not just another smart contract platform—it’s a four-layer ecosystem engineered specifically for AI. It enables individuals, researchers, and companies to create, own, and monetize AI assets—from training data and models to autonomous agents—on a decentralized blockchain infrastructure.

By focusing on provenance, collaboration, and fair reward, Sahara addresses the opacity and centralization prevalent within traditional AI systems.

Architecture: The Four Layers of Sahara

Sahara’s technical design is layered to support modular development and seamless AI collaboration:

1. Application Layer

Includes user-facing tools like AI model hubs, agent builders, and no-code environments that allow anyone—from data scientists to non-technical creators—to publish or consume AI products.

2. Transaction Layer

Built on a Tendermint-based Proof-of-Stake chain, this layer records data ownership, licensing agreements, tokenized usage rights, and economic incentives. Smart contracts control who can access what, when, and under what terms.

3. Data Layer

Supports both on-chain metadata and off-chain content such as datasets and model weights. It offers privacy-preserving vaults, audit trails, and content-addressable storage to ensure verifiability and provenance.

4. Execution Layer

AI models are trained or queried off-chain using trusted compute environments. These generate attestations that are submitted to the blockchain for transparency, billing, and proof of inference.

Use Cases

Sahara’s design unlocks powerful decentralized applications:

• Data Curation & Labeling: Contributors pool high-quality datasets and earn token rewards.

• Model Training & Publishing: Developers fine-tune and release models with built-in attribution and monetization tools.

• Autonomous Agents: Users or businesses deploy AI agents that operate under defined governance and royalty logic.

• AI Marketplace: Models, datasets, and inference tasks are discoverable, licensable, and composable—all verified and monetized via smart contracts.

These use cases foster a collaborative AI ecosystem that gives value back to the individuals and communities who generate data and insight.

Token Utility & Governance

The SAHARA token serves as the network’s economic backbone:

• Used to pay for compute, license AI assets, and interact with agents.

• Staked by validators to secure the network via Proof-of-Stake consensus.

• Required for governance participation, including proposals and updates to protocol rules.

• Integrated into incentive systems for data contributors, model developers, and vault providers.

Tokenomics are designed to reflect the contribution value across the full AI lifecycle.