Grass: Lending Spare Internet Bandwidth to Collect Data for AI
A Solana-based DePIN project built by Wynd Labs
Grass is a network in which people run a small program on their computer or phone so that their spare internet connection can collect public web data, earning rewards in return. The data is prepared for training artificial intelligence (AI), and GRASS is the network’s token.
1. Wynd Labs and Grass
Grass was built by the start-up Wynd Labs, led by Andrej Radonjic. It began as a browser extension that credited participants with points, and in October 2024 it launched the GRASS token on Solana with a first airdrop based on those points.
Projects like this are called DePIN (decentralised physical infrastructure networks). Instead of a company building data centres and lines itself, they pool the equipment and connections of many individuals into one large network, and Grass drew attention as a DePIN that gathers data for AI.
2. How it works
When a participant leaves the node program running, the network uses their home connection (a residential IP address) to collect public web pages that anyone could view. Home connections are blocked less often than data-centre ones, and participants are rewarded according to the bandwidth they share. Grass says it does not access participants’ personal data or files on their devices.
The collected data is cleaned and structured for companies that want to train AI models. To prove when and where data was gathered, Grass has been developing a dedicated processing layer that records scraping activity on Solana, which it calls Grass L2. The company argues that provable data sources could ease trust problems in AI training.
3. The GRASS token and milestones
GRASS is a standard Solana (SPL) token with a maximum supply of one billion. The project says it is used for network rewards, airdrops, staking and votes on the network’s direction, and part of the supply is reserved for rewards and the ecosystem over time.
The token was listed on several large exchanges at its October 2024 launch, and Grass has since added other kinds of node software beyond the browser extension. On the Crypto Nation map, GRASS stands in Solana City, because it was first issued on Solana.
4. Things to know: proxies and one company
Lending a home connection for web scraping resembles the residential-proxy business: participants cannot easily control which sites their IP visits, and the activity may conflict with some sites’ terms of use. Scraping the web for AI training is itself contested in many countries over copyright and privacy.
Data sales and revenue depend heavily on one company, Wynd Labs, so it is fair to ask how decentralised the network really is. Reward rules and airdrop terms can change, and reserved tokens are released on a schedule. Node software should be downloaded only from official sources to avoid fake extensions.
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