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LatestVana acquires Memory Protocol team as it launches groundbreaking Personal Server and Memory Upgrades to the Vana AppFive AIs added memory this year. Every one is a walled garden. Yours doesn't have to be.

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29 June 2026Anna Kazlauskas at ZEG: data as a digital representation of selfYour data isn't just something you own. It might be who you are. Anna Kazlauskas took the case to the ZEG stage.Read ->

22 June 2026What AI literacy looks like for women in public lifeAI is quietly rewriting public life. Here's why data sovereignty is a women's issue.Read ->

26 February 2026DataConnect: Open-Source Data PortabilitySee everything ChatGPT, Spotify, and Instagram know about you. Export it all in one click.Read ->

17 December 2025How the Vana App Lets You Reclaim and Monetize Your DataRead ->

15 December 2025Vana Sponsors Season 3 of The People’s AI: The Decentralized AI PodcastVana sponsors Season 3 of The People’s AI Podcast, exploring AI, data ownership, and decentralization in the age of data-hungry models.Read ->

9 December 2025What Is Data Collection? Methods Companies Use (and How You Can Take Control)Read ->

5 November 2025What is Data Sovereignty? Personal Data Ownership in the Digital AgeRead ->

21 October 2025Introducing Vana Vibe AppsExplore Vana Vibe Apps, AI-powered tools that turn your data into games, memes, and insights while helping you own your data and protect digital privacy.Read ->

15 October 2025What Is Personal Data Ownership? Why It Matters for Your Digital RightsRead ->

7 October 2025Vana at Korea Blockchain Week: Turning Spotify Data Into Discovery, One Flavor at a TimeVana’s “What Flavor Is Your Data?” brought data ownership to life at Korea Blockchain Week through the Vana App and vibe app experiences.Read ->

22 September 2025Introducing the Vana App: Own Your Digital Self and Start Earning with VanaXPDiscover the Vana app, the gateway to owning your data, creating your VIBE, and earning rewards with VanaXP in the new data economy.Read ->

9 September 2025Introducing Vana Playground: Unlocking the Age of Data CapitalVana Playground unlocks deep, user-owned datasets for AI builders, complete with schemas, samples, and governance. Discover the future of data capital.Read ->

2 July 2025Everyone’s Talking About Data Collectives. Here’s How to Get Involved.Learn what Data Collectives are and how to join them on Vana. This blog breaks down how to earn tokens from your sleep, chat, and browsing data by contributing to projects like $REM, GPT Data DAO, and more.Read ->

22 May 2025Vana Brings Data Tokens to Solana’s Onchain Capital MarketsVana announces VRC-20 Data Asset Tokens are now tradeable on Solana, unlocking liquidity for user-owned data. This expands decentralized data ownership and opens new capital markets for AI’s most critical input.Read ->

13 May 2025MIT Decentralized AI: Internet of Agents SummitHighlights from the MIT Decentralized AI Summit, where Vana shared its vision for user-owned data, protocol upgrades, and the future of decentralized AI. Sessions explored data sovereignty, innovation, and building with private data.Read ->

8 May 2025Introducing Vana Academy: Calling the New Data Economy InnovatorsData is the most valuable asset of the digital age—and it’s trapped. Locked up by platforms, siloed by corporations, and inaccessible to the people who generate it.At Vana, we believe it’s time for a new model—one where entrepreneurs, developers, and communities take control of the value they create. That’s why we’re launching Vana Academy, a 9-week intensive for builders ready to pioneer the next frontier of data entrepreneurship.Read ->

31 March 2025VRC-20: Establishing the Financial System for User-Owned DataVana introduces VRC-20, a new standard for data-backed tokens that brings liquidity, structure, and real utility to user-owned data. With validator staking, standardized infrastructure, and grants for builders, Vana is building the financial layer of the data economyRead ->

31 March 2025Introducing Data Validator Staking: Powering Data Markets for the FutureVana introduces Data Validator Staking to replace emissions-based incentives with a system focused on uptime, security, and liquidity. Powered by TEEs, this upgrade ensures secure data access, protects privacy, and supports a sustainable AI data economy.Read ->

26 March 2025Vana and Flower Labs Partner to Build the World’s First User-Owned AI ModelVana and Flower Labs launch COLLECTIVE-1, the first decentralized, user-owned foundation model trained on private data. This partnership merges secure data contribution with federated AI to create more powerful, open, and user-controlled AI systems.Read ->

5 March 2025Vana AI Data Summit Recap: Pioneering the Future of User-Owned AI at EthDenverVana hosted the first AI Data Summit at EthDenver, highlighting data as a new asset class and exploring decentralized AI, data sovereignty, and monetization through panels, workshops, and community collaboration.Read ->

8 January 2025Breaking Down Data Walls: How Vana is Building the Future of User-Owned AIVana creator Anna Kazlauskas speaks with The Defiant about solving AI’s data wall through user-owned data and DataDAOs. The conversation explores data sovereignty, decentralized model training, and Vana’s vision for a more equitable AI economy.Read ->

3 December 2024Vana: The First Open Protocol for AI Data SovereigntyThe Vana Whitepaper outlines how the network turns personal data into a user-owned asset class. It introduces DataDAOs, DLP tokens, and the VANA token to enable secure, privacy-preserving data contribution, governance, and monetization in the AI economy.Read ->

20 November 2024Vana’s Next Phase: Accelerating the AI Data RevolutionVana announces its mainnet and VANA token launch, enabling a decentralized network for user-owned data. With 300+ DataDAOs and 1.3 million users, Vana turns data into an asset class, empowering individuals to pool, govern, and monetize their private data securely.Read ->

10 November 2024Vana Brings the AI Data Revolution to Devcon Week 2024Vana is live in Bangkok for Devcon Week 2024, hosting panels, workshops, and demos on decentralized AI and user-owned data. Highlights include keynotes by co-founder Anna Kazlauskas, a Gaia House hackathon bounty, and meetups with the growing DataDAO ecosystem.Read ->

6 November 2024NEW Partnership Announcement: Vana x ReclaimVana partners with Reclaim Protocol to integrate zkTLS technology, enhancing data verification for DataDAOs. This collaboration strengthens Vana’s Proof of Contribution system by enabling secure, privacy-preserving validation of user data in the decentralized AI economy.Read ->

18 September 2024Vana Raises Funding to Build User-Owned AI and Overcome the Data WallVana has raised $25M to advance user-owned AI, including a $5M strategic round with Coinbase Ventures, $18M Series A with Paradigm, and $2M Seed with Polychain. This funding will fuel the growth of DataDAOs and help solve the AI data shortage through privacy-preserving, user-contributed datasets.Read ->

10 September 2024New Partnership Announcement: Vana and Autonomys Network Partner to Realize a Vision of a Decentralized AI StackVana partners with Autonomys Network to advance a fully decentralized AI stack, integrating secure distributed storage with Vana’s user-owned data ecosystem. The collaboration empowers users and DataDAOs to build AI models in a transparent, privacy-preserving environment rooted in user sovereignty.Read ->

26 August 2024New Partnership Announcement: Vana and Reppo Partner to Revolutionize Data-Driven Risk and Reputation ModelsVana and Reppo Network announce a partnership to accelerate data onboarding for risk and reputation models. By connecting Vana’s DataDAOs with Reppo’s modeling platform, the collaboration unlocks new datasets, expands monetization for contributors, and reinforces user data ownership and privacy.Read ->

1 August 2024Model Influence Functions: Measuring Data QualityModel influence functions help quantify the value of user-contributed data in AI training. This post explains how they support fair compensation, proof of contribution, and governance in user-owned AI systems.Read ->

31 July 2024Open Source AI Summit: Empowering the Future of User-Owned AICofounder Anna Kazlauskas outlines the shift toward user-owned AI, highlighting data scarcity, proof of contribution, and collective models for training frontier AI. Vana empowers users to contribute, control, and benefit from their data in this new ecosystem.Read ->

11 June 2024Introducing the Satori Testnet for User-Owned DataThe Satori Testnet by Vana launches a decentralized network for user-owned data, enabling people to contribute private data to train AI and earn from its value. It introduces data liquidity pools, proof-of-contribution, and a new model for collective AI ownership.Read ->

7 June 2024Vana partners with the largest AI Hackathon in the APAC to date.Vana joined over 400 participants at the Build Together Hackathon, highlighting user-owned data, tokenized AI pipelines, and collective ownership. The event showcased strong interest in decentralized AI and set the stage for the Satori Testnet and Vana Mainnet launch.Read ->

30 May 2024DeAI Day in Austin: A Dynamic Panel Discussion on the Future of Decentralized AIAt DeAI Day in Austin, Vana joined leaders from Exabits, Jeannie AI, Render Network, and NounSpace to explore decentralized compute, user-owned AI, and tokenized data. The panel highlighted the collaborative momentum behind building end-to-end decentralized AI systems.Read ->

25 May 2024Participation Summary at the DeAI Society Event: Building the New InternetAt the DeAI Society event, Vana’s Matthias Knauth introduced the Satori Testnet, the first L1 for user-owned data. The event explored the convergence of AI and Web3, emphasizing decentralized systems that align with human values and data ownership.Read ->

15 March 2024Vana CEO, Anna Kazlausks, on AI and Autonomous Agents at ETH DenverAt ETH Denver, Vana CEO Anna Kazlauskas and other leaders discussed decentralized AI, user-owned foundation models, and onchain agents. The panel emphasized data privacy, autonomy, and the potential of AI-powered economies built on blockchain.Read ->

12 March 2024Data Privacy is a LieThis post explains why data privacy is a distraction and argues for data ownership as the real solution. It introduces Vana as a tool to reclaim, control, and use your data for personal or collective benefit in AI applications.Read ->