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The DATA Network is upgrading to run as a protocol on Sui! Once the move is complete, its independent layer 1 chain will be retired. Read the announcement →
The DATA Foundation

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The DATA Foundation

The DATA Foundation is building the source of truth for AI data. Its core product, Trace, is an onchain registry for rights-cleared AI training data: it records where each piece of data came from and the rights it was contributed under. DATA is becoming a protocol on Sui, joining a stack built for AI workloads: Walrus for storage, Seal for access control, and Nautilus for verifiable compute.
Data could be an image, a song, a dataset, an RWA, AI training data, or anything in-between.

Trace

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

DATA on Sui

Why DATA is moving to Sui, what changes, and what stays the same.

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Start Building

Trace Integration Guide

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

Become a provider

Contact our team to get onboarded with a provider scope and API keys.
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.Trace gives every piece of data a portable, verifiable record of where it came from and under what terms it was contributed. On Sui, sourcing, storage, access control, and inference can live on one stack, so Trace can prove and verify every step.

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Quick FAQs

$DATA. It remains the token of the DATA protocol on Sui, carried over one-to-one, with holder economics and governance rights at least equivalent to today’s.
The DATA Network will be upgraded to run as a protocol natively on Sui, and its independent layer 1 chain will be retired. It keeps running until the upgrade is complete. See DATA on Sui for details, and the Legacy Network docs for the current chain.