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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 provides verifiable data provenance and programmable confidentiality. 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
Data could be an image, a song, a dataset, an RWA, AI training data, or anything in-between.

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The Data Stack

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.
Together they let you put data on the DATA Foundation that is provable (Trace) and confidential (CDR).

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Start Building

Quickstart

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

Trace Integration

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

CDR SDK

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

SDK Reference

CDR SDK functions for encryption, vaults, and access control, with 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 a CometBFT-based consensus layer for fast finality and cheap transactions. On top of the network, Trace and CDR work together:
  • Trace records where data came from and the terms it was contributed under.
  • CDR keeps that data encrypted and gates decryption on-chain.
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.Data registered on the DATA Foundation carries its provenance with it through Trace and can stay confidential through CDR, with access controlled on-chain.

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Quick FAQs

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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.