Vana is the decentralized data layer for a new AI economy — one where people, not platforms, own the intelligence.
We exist to break Big Tech’s walled gardens and return power to the people who generate the most valuable resource in the world: private human data.
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About Vana
Vana is the decentralized data layer for a new AI economy—one where people, not platforms, own the intelligence. Vana enables users to reclaim and monetize their data by organizing into data collectives, contributing to open data markets, and fueling consent-based AI.
With a mission to create public markets for private data, Vana empowers individuals with ownership, agency, and economic upside in the systems they power. Its infrastructure supports transparent, user-permissioned data flows and developer access through tokenized primitives like VRC-20, enabling new classes of decentralized applications.
Founded by MIT and Harvard alumni, Vana is backed by leading investors including Paradigm and Polychain, and has over 1 million users participating in its ecosystem. From tokenized sleep data to genetic data collectives, Vana is building the foundation for user-owned AI—a future where data is co-created, not extracted.
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To create public markets for private data.
To ensure everyday people have ownership, agency, and economic upside in the AI systems they fuel.
A world where data is not extracted, but co-created.
Where people form DataDAOs to govern their own datasets.
Where AI is built on consent, context, and community — not surveillance.
Right now, users give away their data for free - treated as a byproduct of using technology. Tech platforms turn that data into billion-dollar models, and the people who generated it get nothing — no stake, no say.
That’s a market failure and a structural failure.