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The DATA Foundation

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The DATA Foundation

The DATA Foundation is the home for data, built on a purpose-built layer 1 blockchain. It’s where data is given an origin, a level of confidentiality, and a clear set of rights, all programmable through a simple API. Every piece of data on the DATA Foundation can be:
  • Proven: a verifiable, portable record of where it came from and under what terms it was contributed
  • Confidential: encrypted so only the parties you authorize can ever decrypt it
  • Governed: owned, licensed, and monetized under transparent on-chain terms
Data could be an image, a song, a dataset, an RWA, AI training data, or anything in-between.

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The Three Layers

Trace: provenance

Verifiable, provider-normalized provenance: content hashes, contributor consent, and KYC signals, with public audit views over the whole dataset.

CDR: confidentiality

Confidential Data Rails: threshold-encrypt data and gate decryption with on-chain access control: no single party ever holds the full key.

IP & Licensing: rights

Register data as IP and attach on-chain license terms that define who can use it and how, the rights layer the other two build on.
Together they let you put data on the DATA Foundation that is provable (Trace), confidential (CDR), and governed by clear usage rights (IP & Licensing).

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Start Building

Quickstart

Add the network, grab the code examples, and ship your first integration.

CDR SDK

Encrypt, store, and gate access to confidential data with @piplabs/cdr-sdk.

Trace Integration

Register data provenance over a simple REST API, no SDK required.

SDK Reference

Every function in the CDR, Protocol, and Python SDKs, with working examples.

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How It Fits Together

The DATA Network is a purpose-built layer 1 that combines the best of the EVM and the Cosmos SDK. It is 100% EVM-compatible, with execution-layer optimizations for traversing complex data structures (like IP graphs) in seconds at marginal cost, and a CometBFT-based consensus layer for fast finality and cheap transactions. On top of the network, the three layers compose:
  • Trace records where data came from and the terms it was contributed under.
  • CDR keeps that data encrypted and gates decryption on-chain, often on the very licenses defined below.
  • IP & Licensing registers data as an 🧩 IP Asset and attaches transparent terms through the 📜 Licensing Module. Although enforced on-chain, these terms map to an off-chain legal contract, the 💊 Programmable IP License (PIL).
Data is the most valuable asset of the AI era, yet the systems we use to share it weren’t built for it. Creators lose control and credit the moment their work goes online; AI is trained on copyrighted and unconsented data; and there’s no portable, verifiable record of where any of it came from.The DATA Foundation fixes this. Data registered on it carries its provenance with it (Trace), can stay confidential until access is earned (CDR), and is governed by transparent, programmable rights (IP & Licensing), so contributors are credited and fairly rewarded when their data is used, including by AI.

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Quick FAQs

$DATA
Your preference obviously, since you can use any EVM-based wallet. But we recommend MetaMask or OKX. You can add DATA Foundation’s L1 below:

Add DATA Network

Connect your wallet to DATA Network.

Add Aeneid testnet

Connect your wallet to the Aeneid testnet.
You can use bridged USDC.e powered by Stargate.